Liam Gillick
As an important and influential figure in the contemporary art world, Gillick’s practice spans multi-disciplined fields producing artworks, public installations, journals and critiques about a series of issues derived from the phenomenon and its influence upon members of society. Gillick started having an interest in a phenomenon in which a modern aesthetic system collides and coexists with a new political and social agenda. He made significant contributions to establish the term Relational Aesthetic, one of the central theories of contemporary art. Through analysis on social phenomena and often contradictory aesthetic approaches, he redefines ‘relation’ among human, circumstance, life and art. Liam Gillick was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2002 and he was the artist presented at the German Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009.