Markus Oehlen (*1956) is one of Germany's most unmistakable painters. As an anarchic pictorial inventor, since the 1980s he has revolted against any visual convention and aesthetic convenience. Due to his integration of digital techniques and the contemporary reservoir of images, he creates stunningly hybrid paintings. Collage-like fragments of art history and popular culture interfere with each other. Abstraction and figuration swiftly blend into one another. With the utmost freedom, Oehlen expands the possibilities of today's painting in his both daring and calculated pictorial experiments.

Berlin sculptor Axel Anklam uses materials like stainless steel, latex, foam and epoxy to create super-plastic works that contain elements of biomorphic energy and space-aged product design. This volume collects works from 2002 through 2007.

This catalogue gathers a selection of artists who, aspiring to a more "beautiful world," have elected to construct their own: Thomas Arnolds, Michael Biber, Michal Conrads, Martin Kippenberger, Bjarne Melgaard, Ernesto Neto, Philipp Schwalb, Andreas Slominski, Franz West, Meredyth Wulff and others.

After a long immersion in abstract painting, Hans Georg Koehler's art has stepped into the starkest of figurative expressions, disclosing human figures that evoke Francis Bacon in their vulnerability to the painterly voids that surrounds them, and in their aura of indefinable anguish. Koehler defines this tension as a "correlation between the precisely planned and defined picture and the representation of cricking figures tearing lumps off themselves."