KOW represents international artists from different generations, cultural backgrounds, and approaches to media who share the engagement with social realities and respond to political challenges with aesthetic consciousness. Artists such as Franz Erhard Walther, Barbara Hammer, Alice Creischer, Candice Breitz, Tobias Zielony, Renzo Martens, Michael E. Smith, Hiwa K and Chto Delat have made crucial contributions to the artistic discourse and created outstanding bodies of work supported by reputable institutions. Many of them had their first gallery exhibitions in Europe at KOW.