John Armleder

John Armleder, born 1948 in Geneva, Switzerland, lives and works in Geneva, Switzerland and New York City. Since the 1970s he has been an influential voice in contemporary art, known for playfully blurring the boundaries between ‘high’ art and popular culture. With his installations and spatial interventions, Armleder questions artistic hierarchies and undermines conventional distinctions of taste, embracing both the refined and the trivial. His celebrated Furniture Sculptures highlight the ways in which paintings, sculptures, and other media are increasingly absorbed as decorative elements in private and public spaces. Rich in art-historical references – from Minimalism to Pop Art and beyond – his oeuvre unfolds as a dynamic journey through the visual languages of the 20th and 21st centuries.