Peter Chevalier was born in Karlsruhe (Baden-Württemberg) in 1953. From 1976 to 1980 he studied painting at the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig under Hermann Albert and Alfred Winter-Rust. He moved to Berlin in 1981. In 1985 in Hanover he was awarded the Sprengel Prize for Fine Art of the Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung. In addition, from 1992 to 2019, he taught as professor of painting at the State Academy of Fine Art in Stuttgart. Chevalier lives and works in Berlin and Stuttgart.

Fritz Cremer was born in Arnsberg an der Ruhr (North Rhine-Westphalia) in 1906. From 1929 to 1934 he studied at the United State Schools of Free and Applied Art in Berlin. In the 1920s he became a member of the German Communist Party. After the war years he taught at the Academy of Applied Art in Vienna and returned to East Berlin in 1950. Important sculptural commissions were the monuments in the con­centration camps Ravensbrück, Mauthausen and Buchenwald, which he created in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1977 he was invited to documenta 6, and in 1992 he received the Stiftung Bremer Sculptor’s Prize. Cremer died in Berlin in 1993.

Karl-Heinz Dennig was born in Wilferdingen (Baden-Württemberg) in 1939. From 1957 to 1959 he trained as a steel engraver in Pforzheim. This was followed by stud­ies in painting at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg under Emil Schumacher. In 1962 he received a guest professorship at the Academy of Arts in Kassel. From 1964 to 1966 he followed this with a study visit to London and spent some time in Rome. Dennig lives and works in Berlin.

Rolf Biebl was born in Klingenthal (Saxony) in 1951. He studied sculpture at the Weissensee University of the Arts in East Berlin. From 1980 to 1983 he was a master student at the Academy of Arts of the GDR under Ludwig Engelhardt. Together with Clemens Gröszer and Harald K. Schulze he founded the artists’ group NEON REAL in 1981. He was awarded the last Will Lammert Prize of the Academy of Arts (Berlin) in 1992. He received the first prize at the International Symposium of Sculptors in Eubabrunn in 2003. Biebl lives and works in Berlin.

Ingrid Bertel was born in Eberswalde (Brandenburg) in 1949. From 1968 to 1972 she studied at the University of Economics, East Berlin. Since 1990 she has been involved in the discovery and development of unused industrial wastelands, such as a disused factory site in Berlin-Köpenick. In this process she expanded her means of artistic expression to include performance and installations. Bertel lives and works in Berlin.

Hermann Albert was born in 1937 in Ansbach (Bavaria). From 1958 to 1964 he stud­ied at the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig. He then went to West Berlin and in 1971 spent a year in Florence on a scholarship at the Villa Romana. From 1974 he taught at the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig and worked as a professor there from 1985 to 2001. He participated in documenta 6 in Kassel in 1977 and received the Prize of Nord/LB in 1985. Albert is based in Berlin and Brandenburg.

Gerhard Altenbourg was born Gerhard Ströch in 1926 in Thuringia. From 1948 to 1950 he studied at the Bauhaus University in Weimar. He participated in II. documenta in Kassel in 1959, received the Burda Prize for Graphic Art in 1966, the Prize of the 2nd Internationale for Drawing in 1967 and the Will Grohmann Prize in 1968. A first retrospective was held in 1968 in Hanover, Baden-Baden, West Berlin, Hamburg and Düsseldorf. In 1970 he was appointed a member of the Academy of Arts, West Berlin. In 1986 a retrospective was held for the first time in the GDR in Leipzig, Dresden and East Berlin. Altenbourg died in Meissen (Saxony) at the end of 1989.

Horst Antes was born in Heppenheim (Hesse) in 1936. He studied art at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe under HAP Grieshaber. In 1957 he received the Art Prize of the City of Hanover, in 1961 the Young West art prize of the city of Reckling­hausen, the Prix des artistes at the IIe Biennale des jeunes artistes in Paris and in 1966 the UNESCO Prize for the Promotion of the Arts at the Venice Biennale. From 1962 to 1963 scholarships for the Villa Romana and the Villa Massimo enabled him to spend time in Italy. From 1967 to 1973 and from 1984 to 2000 he taught as a profes­sor at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe. Since 1985 Antes has lived in Karlsruhe (Baden-Württemberg), Italy and Berlin.

Armando was born Herman Dirk van Dodeweerd in Amsterdam in 1929. From 1949 to 1954 he studied art history and philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. In 1979 he came to West Berlin on a DAAD scholarship. In 1982 he participated in documen­ta 7 and represented the Netherlands at the Venice Biennale in 1984. From 1996 he was a member of the Academy of Arts, Berlin. Queen Beatrix awarded him the Medal of Honour for Art and Science in 2009. In 2013 the Armando Foundation was estab­lished in the Netherlands. Armando passed away in Potsdam (Brandenburg) in 2018.

Romen Banerjee was born in 1963 in West Berlin. From 1984 to 1990 he studied physics and graduated in art studies at the University of Arts in West Berlin, under Wolfgang Petrick. Banerjee co-founded the Ateliergemeinschaft Tempelhofer Ufer, a studio cooperative, in 1988. In the same year he received the Art Prize of IG Metall. From 1992 to 1993 he was a lecturer at the University of Arts. He is involved in projects such as the Prozessgalerie (2009), an organisation and debate platform. Banerjee lives and works in Berlin.