20th Century German
 
Though born in the former Czechoslovakia, in 1969 following the Prague Spring Jiri Georg Dokoupil escaped with his family to West Germany and became a German national. He belongs to a generation which completely changed the international art scene in the 1970s and gave rise to what became known as New German Painting.
 
He started studying art in Cologne, at the Fachhochschule Für Kunst und Design before continuing in Frankfurt and at the Cooper Union in New York, where he studied under Joseph Kosuth (1945) and Hans Haacke (1936).
 
In the 1980s he was a member of the Mulheimer Freiheit group, which made a name for itself in the transformation of the German and European art scene, alongside artists like Gerhard Naschberger (1955) and Walter Dahn (1954), among others.
 
In 1983/84 he taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf, and years later ran the Arte Actual workshop at Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid. At the moment, he lives between Germany and Spain.
 
His work is in the collections of many foremost institutions, including the Musée national d’art moderne (Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris), the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (MNCARS) in Madrid.