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Karl Gass
?–2009
Conceptual ArtConceptual ArtInstitutional Critique
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- • Conceptual Art
- • Institutional Critique
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Karl Gass was a German conceptual artist whose practice centered on language, ideas, and institutional critique. Working within the postwar Eastern European avant-garde, he engaged directly with the philosophical foundations of art-making itself, treating the concept as the primary material. His work interrogated the systems and assumptions underlying artistic production and display.
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