Ever since the end of the 1970s, Sandro Chia has been one of Italy’s leading contemporary painters. He came to prominence as a key figure in the Transavanguardia: a group of Italian Neo-Expressionists

A nuclear bomb seems to have been dropped in this installation by artist Bouke de Vries. The eight-metre table, with a mushroom cloud as its centrepiece, is the scene of a fierce battle: thousands of

British artist Grayson Perry (b. 1960), winner of the Erasmus Prize, works with a great variety of techniques and materials, and refers to himself as the “transvestite potter”. His art is provocative

Polyurethane-foam vases, colourful interiors, porcelain cups for construction workers, a mantle clock with eyes on columns: working together between 1981 and 1995 as Cubic 3 Design, Ton Hoogerwerf

Ineke Hans is well-known as a designer of products such as furniture, lamps and a modern version of the Dutch clog. She has been invited to carry out a temporary restyling of the five historic

Rosemin Hendriks (Velp, 1968) uses faces – generally her own – as the starting point for her works. Each face is drawn, in mainly linear fashion, using charcoal and Conté on a large sheet of paper