Live or Die: Philippe Vandenberg and Bruce Nauman

Dr. Brigitte Kolle is Head of the Contemporary Art Collection at the Hamburger Kunsthalle. Prior to this, she was the curator of Portikus, Frankfurt am Main; Inova, Milwaukee (USA), and the Kunstsammlung NRW, Dusseldorf. She has written extensively on contemporary art and edited numerous publications. John C. Welchman is Professor of Art History in the Visual Arts department at the University of California, the chair of the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts (Los Angeles) and advisor to the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam. His most recent books are the monograph Guillaume Bijl (JRP|Ringier, 2016) and Past Realization: Essays on Contemporary European Art (Sternberg, 2016), the first volume of his collected writings. Anna Dezeuze is an art historian who lectures at the Ecole Superieure d Art et de Design Marseille-Mediterranee in Marseilles.