Martin Benrath

?–2000

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Martin Benrath was a German performance artist active from the 1960s onward, working with the body as primary material to explore gesture, duration, and spatial intervention. His practice emerged within the post-war European avant-garde, a period marked by radical reassessments of art's relationship to time, presence, and the viewer's physical encounter with the work.

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