Christian Boltanski

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Christian Boltanski was a French contemporary artist renowned for his large-scale installations that explore memory, loss, and the traces of human existence.

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Label Occurrences
Christian Boltanski canonical 2
Christian Liberté Boltanski 1

Statements (53)

Predicate Object
instanceOf artist
contemporary artist
human
installation artist
awardReceived Kaiserring Goslar
Praemium Imperiale
causeOfDeath cancer
countryOfCitizenship France
dateOfBirth 1944-09-06
dateOfDeath 2021-07-14
employer École des Beaux-Arts
surface form: École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (guest/teacher, various periods)
ethnicGroup Jewish
exhibitedAt Centre Pompidou
Documenta (Kassel)
surface form: Documenta

Museum of Modern Art
surface form: Museum of Modern Art, New York

Tate Modern
Venice Biennale
father Étienne Boltanski
fieldOfWork installation art
photography
sculpture
video art
fullName Christian Boltanski self-linksurface differs
surface form: Christian Liberté Boltanski
genre conceptual art
installation art
languageOfWorkOrName French
movement conceptual art
contemporary art
notableFor large-scale installations about memory and loss
works dealing with the Holocaust and collective memory
notableWork Les Archives du cœur
Monument: The Children of Dijon
No Man’s Land
Personnes
Reserve: The Dead Swiss
The Heart Archive
The Life of C.B.
placeOfBirth Paris
surface form: Paris, France
placeOfDeath Paris
surface form: Paris, France
representedBy Marian Goodman Gallery
surface form: Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris

Galleria Continua
Marian Goodman Gallery
sibling Luc Boltanski
spouse Annette Messager
theme absence
collective memory
death
identity
loss
memory
Holocaust
surface form: the Holocaust

traces of human existence
workLocation Paris
surface form: Paris, France

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Subject: Christian Boltanski
Description of subject: Christian Boltanski was a French contemporary artist renowned for his large-scale installations that explore memory, loss, and the traces of human existence.

Referenced by (3)

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Monumenta art installations commissionedArtist Christian Boltanski
subject surface form: Monumenta 2010
Musée de Grenoble hasWorkBy Christian Boltanski
Christian Boltanski fullName Christian Boltanski self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Christian Liberté Boltanski