Christian Boltanski

Christian Boltanski: Born in 1944 in Paris, Christian Boltanski is a contemporary French conceptual artist. He is best known for his photographic installations.Throughout his career, he has revived memories filtered out in the course of history, presenting the lives (existences) and deaths (extinctions) of anonymous individuals and of groups whose history is fading. His work can be found in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate in London, and the Centre...See more

Christian Boltanski: Born in 1944 in Paris, Christian Boltanski is a contemporary French conceptual artist. He is best known for his photographic installations.Throughout his career, he has revived memories filtered out in the course of history, presenting the lives (existences) and deaths (extinctions) of anonymous individuals and of groups whose history is fading. His work can be found in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate in London, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. See less