Anton Vidokle is a Russian artist

Artist

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, curator

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, and writer. In 1999, he founded e-flux, a paid contemporary art newswire and critical journal. From 2006 to 2007, he organized unitednationsplaza, a temporary art school in Berlin

Berlin

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 involving well-known contemporary artists and critics including Boris Groys

Boris Groys

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, Liam Gillick

Liam Gillick

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, Martha Rosler

Martha Rosler

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, Rikrit Tiravanija, Paul Chan

Paul Chan

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, and Okwui Enwezor

Okwui Enwezor

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In 2011, the magazine ArtReview

ArtReview

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named him the fifth most powerful person in the art world.

Vidokle was born in Moscow and moved to New York with his family in 1981. He now lives and works in Berlin .