---
title: "The artist is missing"
date: 2016-04-12
last_modified: 2025-01-04T17:18:46+01:00
generated_at: 2026-04-18T12:52:12Z
url: "https://www.schirn.de/en/schirnmag/the-artist-is-missing-context-en/"
description: "Polish artist Paweł Althamer is forever finding new ways of unsettling viewers. His self-portrait at the ME exhibition shows everything about him in the minutest of details – it is only the artist himself who is missing."
image: "https://www.schirn.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Header_PAwel_Althamer.jpg"
language: "en-US"
---

# The artist is missing