Imi Knoebel

Imi Knoebel’s practice often centers on spatial relations in addition to the fundamentals of painting and sculpture, preoccupations he developed during his education at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf studying under Joseph Beuys. In Raum 19 (Room 19, 1968), Knoebel reduces the core elements of a traditional artistic practice—stretchers, picture frames, and various planar surfaces—to distill the essence of form, material, space, support, and surface.