Joseph Kosuth
The Question
“I think that true culture is essentially political. So it's not a question of it being content. Content, you stick into that, it creates our thinking. It's essentially political. If you understand how art works, it's like that for me.”
— Joseph Kosuth
Joseph Kosuth is recognized as one of the foremost pioneers of Conceptual Art and installation art. Since the 1960s he has developed groundbreaking language-based works and appropriation strategies, exploring the relationship between language, meaning, and artistic production. Over more than fifty years, his practice has taken the form of installations, museum exhibitions, public commissions and publications across Europe, the Americas and Asia. He has participated in seven editions of documenta and eight Venice Biennales, including presenting Zeno at the Edge of Known World (1993) in the Hungarian Pavilion.
Among his major permanent and public works are Material of Ornament at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice (1997; permanent 2020), Ni Apparence Ni Illusion at the Louvre (2009; permanent 2014), Causa Sui for the Council of State in The Hague (2011), W.F.T. at the San Francisco Civic Auditorium (2016), Inventing Relations for Ca’ Foscari University in Venice (2016), One Field to the Next at Taipei Main Station (2018), La Signification at the Magritte Museum in Brussels (2019), and Located World at the Miami Beach Convention Center (2019).
