Almine Rech congratulates Joseph Kosuth for having received the Honorary Degree in Phenomenology of Contemporary Arts at the Albertina Art Academy in Turin

Almine Rech congratulates Joseph Kosuth for having received the Honorary Degree in Phenomenology of Contemporary Arts at the Albertina Art Academy in Turin, Italy on March 13, 2025.

"I tried to propose a new way of doing art, that focused on ideas instead of objects, and this was my idea of doing art, so I called my work not only 'art as idea' but 'art as idea as idea'."
— 'Meaning Building - And Eleventh Point for an Art Academy', by Joseph Kosuth

Joseph Kosuth is a key figure in the redefinition of the art object that took place during the 1960s and 70s with the formulation of Conceptual art, which questions art’s traditional forms and practices, as well as the assumptions surrounding them. To do this, Kosuth was among the first to employ appropriation strategies, texts, photography, installations and the use of public media, as well as to write the earliest theoretical texts supporting it. With Kosuth, art itself is essentially a questioning process.