Düsseldorf-based Hans-Peter Feldmann is a passionate collector of images and stories, an original thinker and one of the first conceptual* artists. Since the sixties, he has been collecting, producing, and exhibiting photographs, combining the humor of American conceptual artists such as John Baldessari and Richard Prince with the gravitas of Germans like Gerhard Richter.

His relationship to the art world has been eccentric; in 1980, he destroyed most of his work and went into early retirement, only to pick up, a decade later, more or less exactly where he left off. Hans-Peter Feldmann was the recipient of the 2010 Hugo Boss Award* with an accompanying exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, New York. <...