Mediums · 05

Conceptual Art

The idea did not replace the object so much as expose the rules behind objects, language, authorship and institutions.

01Barbara KrugerThe image talks back.02Cildo MeirelesIdeas become physical traps inside economic and sensory systems.03Jenny HolzerPublic language made suspicious.04Joseph KosuthArt asks what art means.05Lawrence WeinerLanguage as sculpture.06Marcel DuchampThe idea becomes the artwork.07On KawaraExistence is recorded one day at a time.08Sol LewittThe instruction can be the artwork.