In his installations, always deliberately appearing to be only provisionary, Swiss artist THOMAS HIRSCHHORN, born 1957, mainly combines seemingly banal, easily accessible and cheap looking materials with writings, photographs, videos and objects. Many of his pieces are dedicated to historical figures, for instance his "Bataille monument" for Documenta 11 or the more recent "Ingeborg Bachmann Altar", shown this year at Alexanderplatz in Berlin. From 1978 to 1983 Hirschhorn pursued his studies at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Zurich and has been living in Paris since 1984.