Liam Gillick

Together with Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas, Angela Bulloch Henry Bond, Liam Gillick belongs to the first generation of the YBA, Young British Artists, which dominated the art scene in the 1990s. In 2002, he was nominated for what is perhaps the world’s most prestigious art prize: the Turner Award. In 2009, he represented Germany at the Venice Biennale. He has also had solo shows at Whitechapel Gallery (London) and Palais de Tokyo (Paris). Gillick uses a variety of materials, including text,, and his art is about the aesthetics of social systems and how society is shaped by the prevailing economic system. In his art, abstraction does not serve to create minimalist objects but to make room for social interaction. In Abstract Possible Liam Gillick shows a detail of what will eventually be the facade of a meeting place in the Basque province.