Contemporary art encompasses works produced from 1945 to the present, across all styles and aesthetic practices. As the successor to modern art (1850–1945), it thrives on diversity and interdisciplinarity, embracing painting, sculpture, photography, installation, video, and digital art.

The term also extends to the institutions that showcase it: museums, galleries, fairs, salons, and biennials. By convention, contemporary art is often associated with the 1960s onward, a period marked by the rise of Pop Art, which broke with modernism and placed experimentation at the core of artistic creation.

Today, contemporary art is less about a single aesthetic and more about questioning, provoking, and redefining boundaries between disciplines. As philosopher Peter Osborne highlighted, it is often considered “post-conceptual,” where process, idea, and experience are as significant as the object itself.

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