Urban

Photography, Arborescence, Vassilia Kouboulis

Arborescence

Vassilia Kouboulis

Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch

$1,925

Photography, Napoli, Gabriele Basilico

Napoli

Gabriele Basilico

Photography - 40.2 x 51.2 x 0 inch

$10,189

Photography, Bus 60, Cambrai, Camille Léage

Bus 60, Cambrai

Camille Léage

Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 inch

$203

Photography, Sous Sol de París. 1977-1999, Gordon Matta-Clark

Sous Sol de París. 1977-1999

Gordon Matta-Clark

Photography - 23.5 x 19.5 x 0 inch

$9,623

Photography, House in Mud, Santiago Sierra

House in Mud

Santiago Sierra

Photography - 8.3 x 11.8 x 0.6 inch

$5,660

Photography, En Carafe, Cédric Fontaine

En Carafe

Cédric Fontaine

Photography - 9.4 x 14.2 x 0.2 inch

$419

Photography, Vague#2, Carlos Arriagada

Vague#2

Carlos Arriagada

Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0 inch

$2,038

Photography, Vagabondages 2, Carlos Arriagada

Vagabondages 2

Carlos Arriagada

Photography - 29.5 x 19.7 x 0 inch

$1,925

Photography, Tropical Mood - Archi-Lines Series, Anna Levesh

Tropical Mood - Archi-Lines Series

Anna Levesh

Photography - 23.6 x 17.7 inch

$849

Photography, Untitled (Shadow), Ludvig Perés

Untitled (Shadow)

Ludvig Perés

Photography - 30 x 20 x 0.1 inch

$1,350

Photography, Dismaland : The Revolution Will Be Live, Barry Cawston

Dismaland : The Revolution Will Be Live

Barry Cawston

Photography - 29.5 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch

$1,788

Photography, Untitled (Man Smoking), Ludvig Perés

Untitled (Man Smoking)

Ludvig Perés

Photography - 20 x 30 x 0.1 inch

$1,350

Photography, Untitled, Tokyo Japan., Kevin Jordan O'Shea

Untitled, Tokyo Japan.

Kevin Jordan O'Shea

Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0.1 inch

$1,132

Photography, Architectural Extract N.20 - Archi-Lines Series, Anna Levesh

Architectural Extract N.20 - Archi-Lines Series

Anna Levesh

Photography - 35.4 x 47.2 inch

$1,121

Photography, Untitled (Yellow), Ludvig Perés

Untitled (Yellow)

Ludvig Perés

Photography - 30 x 20 x 0.1 inch

$1,350

Photography, Architectural Extract N.3 - Archi-Lines Series, Anna Levesh

Architectural Extract N.3 - Archi-Lines Series

Anna Levesh

Photography - 39.2 x 31.1 inch

$1,008

Photography, Architectural Extract N.10 - Archi-Lines Series, Anna Levesh

Architectural Extract N.10 - Archi-Lines Series

Anna Levesh

Photography - 39.4 x 29.5 inch

$1,008

Photography, Tour de Manège #2 - Archi-Lines Series, Anna Levesh

Tour de Manège #2 - Archi-Lines Series

Anna Levesh

Photography - 31.5 x 23.6 inch

$894

Photography, Shibuya Crossing, Anna Levesh

Shibuya Crossing

Anna Levesh

Photography - 35.4 x 47.2 inch

$1,121

Photography, Koban Police station, Jean-Michel Berts

Koban Police station

Jean-Michel Berts

Photography - 41.3 x 49.2 x 0.8 inch

$7,868

Photography, Benidorm, Lionel le Jeune

Benidorm

Lionel le Jeune

Photography - 32.3 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch

$1,075

Photography, The perfect fish and chips, Barry Cawston

The perfect fish and chips

Barry Cawston

Photography - 29.5 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch

$1,981

Photography, Untitled (Shadow on Green), Ludvig Perés

Untitled (Shadow on Green)

Ludvig Perés

Photography - 30 x 20 x 0.1 inch

$1,350

Photography, Untitled (Man and Bench), Ludvig Perés

Untitled (Man and Bench)

Ludvig Perés

Photography - 20 x 30 x 0.1 inch

$1,350

Photography, Burma Blur XXII, Sven Pfrommer

Burma Blur XXII

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 27.6 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch

$2,140

Photography, Human Vision I, Sven Pfrommer

Human Vision I

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch

$1,913

Photography, America, Barry Cawston

America

Barry Cawston

Photography - 29.5 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch

$2,208

Photography, Brasilia, Antoine Buttafoghi

Brasilia

Antoine Buttafoghi

Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 inch

$1,585

Photography, Human Crowd X, Sven Pfrommer

Human Crowd X

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch

$1,800

Photography, Human Crowd V, Sven Pfrommer

Human Crowd V

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch

$1,800

Photography, Human Crowd IV, Sven Pfrommer

Human Crowd IV

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch

$1,800

Photography, Java Jazz XXIII - Photographic Art by Sven Pfrommer, Sven Pfrommer

Java Jazz XXIII - Photographic Art by Sven Pfrommer

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch

$1,925

Photography, Java Jazz XXIV, Sven Pfrommer

Java Jazz XXIV

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch

$1,925

Photography, Java Jazz XXVI, Sven Pfrommer

Java Jazz XXVI

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 27.6 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch

$2,140

Photography, Java Jazz XLVII, Sven Pfrommer

Java Jazz XLVII

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 27.6 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch

$2,140

Photography, Human touch V, Sven Pfrommer

Human touch V

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch

$1,981

Photography, Saigon Blur II, Sven Pfrommer

Saigon Blur II

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 27.6 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch

$2,140

Photography, Saigon Blur XXXV, Sven Pfrommer

Saigon Blur XXXV

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 27.6 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch

$2,140

Photography, Burma Blur XLV, Sven Pfrommer

Burma Blur XLV

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 27.6 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch

$2,140

Photography, Airport XXVI, Sven Pfrommer

Airport XXVI

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 27.6 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch

$2,140

Photography, Burma Blur IX, Sven Pfrommer

Burma Blur IX

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 27.6 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch

$2,140

Photography, Human Sensor IX, Sven Pfrommer

Human Sensor IX

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 27.6 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch

$2,140

Photography, Human Hub V, Sven Pfrommer

Human Hub V

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 27.6 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch

$2,140

Photography, Burma Blur XXIII, Sven Pfrommer

Burma Blur XXIII

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 27.6 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch

$2,140

Photography, Human Exposure III, Sven Pfrommer

Human Exposure III

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 27.6 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch

$2,140

Photography, Human Convergence II, Sven Pfrommer

Human Convergence II

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 27.6 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch

$2,140

Photography, Burma Blur LXVIII, Sven Pfrommer

Burma Blur LXVIII

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch

$1,913

Photography, Burma Blur LXIX, Sven Pfrommer

Burma Blur LXIX

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch

$1,913

Photography, Burma Blur LXXX, Sven Pfrommer

Burma Blur LXXX

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch

$1,913

Photography, Saigon Blur XCI, Sven Pfrommer

Saigon Blur XCI

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch

$1,913

Photography, Burma Blur XXVI, Sven Pfrommer

Burma Blur XXVI

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch

$1,913

Photography, Human Vision XI, Sven Pfrommer

Human Vision XI

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch

$1,913

Photography, Human Hub VII, Sven Pfrommer

Human Hub VII

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch

$1,913

Photography, Human Focus III, Sven Pfrommer

Human Focus III

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch

$1,913

Photography, Human Exposure VIII, Sven Pfrommer

Human Exposure VIII

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch

$1,913

Photography, Human Convergence V, Sven Pfrommer

Human Convergence V

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch

$1,913

Photography, Human Factor II, Sven Pfrommer

Human Factor II

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch

$1,913

Photography, Human Approach VIII, Sven Pfrommer

Human Approach VIII

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch

$1,925

Photography, Burma Blur IV, Sven Pfrommer

Burma Blur IV

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch

$1,913

Photography, Human Exposure V, Sven Pfrommer

Human Exposure V

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch

$1,913

Photography, Saigon Blur LXXXIX, Sven Pfrommer

Saigon Blur LXXXIX

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 27.6 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch

$2,140

Photography, Human order V, Sven Pfrommer

Human order V

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 27.6 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch

$2,140

Photography, Human order VI, Sven Pfrommer

Human order VI

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 27.6 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch

$2,151

Photography, Human exposure II, Sven Pfrommer

Human exposure II

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 27.6 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch

$2,140

Photography, URBAN BLUR IV, Sven Pfrommer

URBAN BLUR IV

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch

$1,913

Photography, Human Axis IV, Sven Pfrommer

Human Axis IV

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch

$1,913

Photography, Human convergence VI, Sven Pfrommer

Human convergence VI

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch

$1,913

Photography, Move on LX, Sven Pfrommer

Move on LX

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 27.6 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch

$2,253

Photography, Java Jazz XXVIII, Sven Pfrommer

Java Jazz XXVIII

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch

$2,140

Photography, Urban blur VIII, Sven Pfrommer

Urban blur VIII

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 27.6 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch

$2,253

Photography, Human focus V, Sven Pfrommer

Human focus V

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 27.6 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch

$2,253

Photography, Human sensor III, Sven Pfrommer

Human sensor III

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch

$2,140

Photography, Human vision II, Sven Pfrommer

Human vision II

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 35.4 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch

$2,253

Photography, Human order IX, Sven Pfrommer

Human order IX

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 27.6 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch

$2,253

Photography, Human order VII, Sven Pfrommer

Human order VII

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 27.6 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch

$2,253

Photography, Urban blur III, Sven Pfrommer

Urban blur III

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 27.6 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch

$2,253

Photography, Human Crowd XII, Sven Pfrommer

Human Crowd XII

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch

$1,800

Photography, Human Crowd VII, Sven Pfrommer

Human Crowd VII

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch

$1,800

Photography, Human Crowd VI, Sven Pfrommer

Human Crowd VI

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch

$1,800

Photography, Human Crowd IX, Sven Pfrommer

Human Crowd IX

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch

$1,800

Photography, Human Crowd III, Sven Pfrommer

Human Crowd III

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch

$1,800

Photography, Human Crowd I, Sven Pfrommer

Human Crowd I

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch

$1,800

Photography, La piste, Christian Lefevre

La piste

Christian Lefevre

Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0.1 inch

$747

Photography, Armonia, Mario Pascual Cámara

Armonia

Mario Pascual Cámara

Photography - 28.5 x 19.3 inch

$1,132

Photography, Urbain brutalisme, Bleu Majorelle - Photographie digigraphie, Claire Giraudeau

Urbain brutalisme, Bleu Majorelle - Photographie digigraphie

Claire Giraudeau

Photography - 27.6 x 19.7 inch

$283

Photography, The Young man, Christian Lefevre

The Young man

Christian Lefevre

Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.1 inch

$1,585

Photography, Evanescence, Vassilia Kouboulis

Evanescence

Vassilia Kouboulis

Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch

$2,094

Photography, Hip Hop, Barry Cawston

Hip Hop

Barry Cawston

Photography - 39.4 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch

$3,113

Photography, Beyrouth, la ville en perpétuelle résurrection, Géraldine Rué

Beyrouth, la ville en perpétuelle résurrection

Géraldine Rué

Photography - 8.3 x 11.7 inch

$136

Photography, Like A Wild Flower, Akif Hakan

Like A Wild Flower

Akif Hakan

Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0 inch

$623

Photography, Coloured silos, Barry Cawston

Coloured silos

Barry Cawston

Photography - 33.1 x 98.4 x 0.8 inch

$5,298

Photography, Petrol pumps, Barry Cawston

Petrol pumps

Barry Cawston

Photography - 23.6 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch

$2,583

Photography, Human Crowd II, Sven Pfrommer

Human Crowd II

Sven Pfrommer

Photography - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch

$1,800

Urban

Over 200,000 pieces. That's the number of contemporary artworks and design objects currently available on Artsper. Every day, new artists and galleries from all over the world join us and trust us to showcase their work. On Artsper, all mediums have a place of choice: painting, drawing, photography, editions and sculpture.

The generic term "contemporary art" refers to all works produced in the recent period, that is to say between the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st centuries. However, there is not only one type of contemporary art. It can cover as many forms as there are artists, if not more. Contemporary art, while taking into account the individualities and the cultural specificities, takes life at the world level, in a globalized society and constantly in movement. Thus, the materials used, the processes of creation and the subjects treated by the contemporary art works often reflect these interconnections. But one constant remains, artists perpetually question the established artistic order.

Even if they are often confused, there are many differences between modern and contemporary art, notably the idea that contemporary art works are more conceptual and privilege the creative idea to the support used.

Nevertheless, the distinction between these two movements can also be purely temporal. Any work realized after 1945 can be called "contemporary". At the beginning of the 20th century, the movements followed one another according to the revolutionary reflections of the great masters of Surrealism (Salvador Dalí, René Magritte), Cubism (Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger) and Dadaism (Marcel Duchamp). From the 1950s and 1960s, artists pushed the reflection on abstraction even further. This is the birth of minimalist art as well as conceptual art. In opposition to the abstract expressionists such as Joan Mitchell, Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock, the leaders of these movements are notably Frank Stella and Sol Lewitt.

Pop art is one of the first artistic movements to emerge from contemporary art. It was the work of a whole generation caught up in the whirlwind of consumer society. Pop art uses new technologies and very bright colors to portray (sometimes ironically) this globalized world in transition. The precursors of this pictorial technique are Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, whose modern paintings represent icons of the time such as Marilyn Monroe or Elizabeth Taylor.

Born in the 1960s in Philadelphia, street art became popular in the 1980s. Illegal and controversial at first, it now occupies a major place in modern art museums, galleries and private collections. Paintings, stencil drawings, collages, sculpture, tags, graffiti... On Artsper, discover original contemporary artworks as well as prints by the greatest street artists: Shepard Fairey (Obey), JonOne, Aiko, Miss.Tic, Jef Aérosol and many others. But our catalog also highlights young stars and talents of the emerging scene, such as Death NYC or Jérôme Mesnager.

Today, contemporary art exists in many forms, more or less inspired by the movements that have shaped modern history. The beginning of the 21st century is marked by a multidisciplinary creation, an interest for creation coming from the four corners of the world, and the emergence of markets on different continents. Contemporary artworks also denote a meteoric growth in digital art, as evidenced by the recent boom in NFTs and AI (artificial intelligence)-generated art. As with all art forms, we see a globalized interest in innovative and disruptive contemporary artworks as much as in work that aims to revive the more traditional forms of fine art.

Whether you're a budding collector or a seasoned buyer, a home decorator or an art history buff, now is the time to express your personality by exploring the collections of our 1,800 partner galleries, which are constantly being updated with new works of contemporary art. Your perfect piece is waiting for you, now it's up to you to find it!

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