Favourite Artists

Visual Art

Gerhard Richter
Keith Tyson
Jason Rhoades
Julie Mehretu
Picasso
Berlinde de Bruyckere
Sigmar Polke
John Baldessari
Tacita Dean
George Condo
Bruce Nauman
Richard Long

Gerhard Richter (left); Jason Rhoades (middle); Keith Tyson (right)

Dance

William Forsythe
Merce Cunningham
Pina Bausch
Sasha Waltz and Guests
Jiri Kylian
Ohad Naharin

Left: William Forsythe, Eidos:Telos; Middle: Pina Bausch, Das Frühlingsopfer; Right: Jiri Kylian, Click-Pause-Silence

Literature

Georges Perec
Thomas Bernhard
Fernando Pessoa
James Joyce
Jorge Luis Borges
Ali Smith
David Foster Wallace
Vladimir Nabokov
Italo Calvino
Michel Houellebecq

Left: Stephen Shore; Right: William Eggleston

Photography

Stephen Shore
Lee Friedlander
William Eggleston
Wolfgang Tillmans
Edward Burtynsky
Irving Penn
Richard Avedon
Peter Lindbergh
Tim Walker
Steve McCurry
Anton Corbijn

Left: David Carson; Middle: Wolfgang Weingart; Right: Wang Zhi-Hong

Graphic Design

David Carson
Anthon Beeke
Ed Fella
Stefan Sagmeister
Chris Ashworth
Bruce Mau
Wolfgang Weingart

Left: Comme des Garçons; Middle: Comme des Garçons; Right: Junya Watanabe

Fashion

Junya Watanabe
Comme des Garçons
Issey Miyake
Yohji Yamamoto
Thom Browne
Kei Ninomiya
Ronald van der Kemp

Architecture

OMA|Rem Koolhaas
Peter Zumthor
BIG|Bjarke Ingels Group
Lebbeus Woods
Snøhetta
Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa|SANAA
Herzog & de Meuron
Daniel Libeskind
Le Corbusier

Classical & Contemporary Music

Gérard Grisey
György Ligeti
Pierre Boulez
John Cage
Tristan Murail
Helmut Lachenmann
Brian Ferneyhough
György Kurtag
Martin Matalon
Clara Iannotta
Chaya Czernowin
Liza Lim
Rebecca Saunders
Anna Þorvaldsdóttir
Frank Bedrossian

Film

Wong Kar-Wai
Park Chan-wook
Michael Haneke
Hou Hsia Hsien
David Lynch
Jean-Luc Godard

Theatre

Thomas Ostermeier
Nicolas Stemann
Frank Castorf
René Pollesch
Tim Etchells

Music

Talking Heads
Radiohead
Burial
Frank Zappa
Nick Cave
Tool
Arcade Fire
P.J. Harvey
Kurt Vile