From as early as the 1980s,
photography and video art have found their place in the German Pavilion, side by side with painting, sculpture and installation: the works of Bernd and Hilla Becher, Thomas Ruff, Candida Höfer, Katharina Sieverding and Rosemarie Trockel — all of them protagonists in the vibrant art
scene at the Düsseldorfer Akademie in the late 20th century — were followed by the actions and films of Christoph Schlingensief and Romuald Karmakar, along with the documentary approaches of the Indian artist Dayanita Singh and the South
African photographer Santu Mofokeng.