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Michael Janssen is pleased to present two outstanding representatives of Eastern European conceptual art: Julije Knifer (1924-2004) and Mladen Stilinovic (born in 1947). Even though they belong to different generations, they share not just their origins, but more importantly, a notion of art that relies on a reduced visual vocabulary, repetition, and a confrontation with the absurd.

Julije Knifer’s first important exhibition in the United States took place only in 2014, where it met with a lot of interest. In Europe – and especially in French-speaking countries, as he lived in Paris before …