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Place of Birth: Metzingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
About Wolfgang Laib
- Wolfgang Laib (born 25 March 1950 in Metzingen, (Germany) is a German artist, predominantly known as a sculptor.
- He lives and works in a small village in southern Germany, maintaining studios in New York and South India. His work has been exhibited worldwide in many of the most important galleries and museums.
- He represented Germany in the 1982 Venice Biennale and was included with his works in the Documenta 7 in 1982 and then in the Documenta 8 in 1987.
- In 2015 he received the Praemium Imperiale for sculpture in Tokyo, Japan. He became world-renowned for his "Milkstones", a pure geometry of white marble made complete with milk, as well as his vibrant installations of pollen.
- In 2013 The Museum of Modern Art in New York City presented his largest pollen piece – 7 m × 8 m – in the central atrium of the museum.
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