About the Author

Andreas Slominski, born 1959, lives near Berlin in Werder. He is famous for his work irritating expectations in sculptoral works. Martha Schwendener wrote 2018 in The New York Times, that: Potty humour and sculpture are alive and thriving in the art world. Andreas Slominski is professor since 2004 at the art academy in Hamburg, in his career he received 2013 the renonwned Lichtwark Prize. His works had been shown 1997 at Venice Biennale, 1993, 2006 and 2010 he had solo exhibitions at MMMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt/Main, 1998 Kunsthalle Zurich, 2003 Fondazione Prada Milan, 2014 Kunsthalle Bremen, 2016 Deichtorhallen Hamburg, and 2017 Museum Jorn Silkeborg.

Dirk Luckow (*1958) has been the General Director of the Deichtorhallen Hamburg since 2009. He graduated 1996 with a dissertation on Joseph Beuys and the American Anti-Form-Art. Luckow has since worked at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, and the Württembergische Kunstverein in Stuttgart. He also worked as project manager for visual arts at the Siemens Arts Program in Munich, before he became Director of the Kunsthalle zu Kiel from 2002 to 2009. From 2007 to 2009 he was a member of the Artistic Advisory Board of the Temporäre Kunsthalle in Berlin. In 2016, Luckow received an honorary professorship at Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg.