Marcel Broodthaers

Bio:

Marcel Broodthaers was a Belgian artist whose career began as a poet before expanding into sculpture, painting, artist’s books, printmaking, and film. While working across disciplines, Broodthaers’s practice focused on giving material form to language. In the late 1960s, he initiated the Musée d’Art Moderne, Département des Aigles (Museum of Modern Art, Department of Eagles), a travelling museum that commented on the function of art and art institutions in society. In his final years, Broodthaers produced immersive, large-scale installations that often combined earlier works with objects borrowed specifically for each presentation.