Artist talk: John Baldessari, Ilya Kabakov

The American artist John Baldessari and the Russian Ilya Kabakov are equally celebrated as “godfathers“ of Conceptual art and share a love of wit and irony that transcends language. Both have worked for nearly five decades, have a passion for painting and art history, and play with image and text, as well as mining popular culture for inspiration. Surprisingly, they have only shown together once, and have never had the opportunity to discuss their practices together in public. On the occasion of Baldessari