Tino Sehgal

Tino Sehgal was born in London and raised in Dusseldorf, Paris and a small town outside of Stuttgart. He studied dance and political economy in Berlin and Essen. In Berlin, Sehgal met the experimental choreographer Xavier Le Roy who introduced him to alternative ideas in dance. In 2000, Sehgal worked with the dance collective Les Ballets C. de la B.in in Ghent, Belgium, and  simulatenously created the piece (untitled). From 2000 on, Sehgal develops "constructed situations," art works without any material forms aside from humans, time and space. The works are sold in an elaborate transaction that requires witnesses and lawyers. No paper document is exchanged. In 2000, his work “Instead of Allowing Some Thing to Rise Up to Your Face Dancing Bruce and Dan and Other Things” appropriated conceptual pieces by Bruce Nauman and Dan Graham. “The Kiss” (2002) followed suit by fluently appropriating, one after the other, different amorous poses  from art works by Auguste Rodin, Constantin Brancusi, Gustav Klimt, Jeff Koons and La Cicciolina as well as Gustave Courbet. Sehgal represented Germany in the 2005 Venice Biennale. Tino Sehgal is currently a Turner Prize nominee; he also won the Leone d'Oro for Best Artist at the 55th Art Biennale in Venice at the beginning of June, 2013. Tino Sehgal lives in Berlin.