Her sensual Nanas-buxom, colorful female figures laid the foundation for her international success beyond the art world: Niki de Saint Phalle. But the self-taught artist's creative spectrum is much broader, and her unconventional oeuvre, ranging from painting and drawing to assemblages, performances, theatre, film, and architecture, is more subversive and critical of society than is widely assumed. Based on her efforts to process her own feelings, she addressed social and political issues, critically questioning institutions and role models in ways that are as relevant today as they have ever been. The exhibition and the publication shed new light on the artist's exceptional personality and uncover the wide-ranging oeuvre of the popular outsider-that is always surprising and eccentric, emotional, dark and brutal, humorous and cheerful.

In general, we presume that artists make art, but what happens when machines produce art? Beginning with Jean Tinguely's drawing machines, this publication presents art machines from various contexts. Includes works by Olafur Eliasson, Damian Hirst, Rebecca Horn, Jon Kessler, Tim Lewis, Steven Pippin, Richard Jackson, and Roxy Paine.