August Sander: the pioneering German documentary photographer who captured the face of a nation

Sarah Lucas: interrogating gender norms through euphemism and innuendo

Claude Cahun: the French surrealist who inspired Cindy Sherman and Nan Goldin

Helen Levitt: a pioneer of street photography who captured the theatre of daily life in New York

Jenny Saville: the British painter challenging body norms with studies in human flesh

Joan Miró: the Spanish surrealist who inspired Dalí and Magritte

Gerhard Richter: the German master of abstraction reconciling memories of war

SUPERFLEX: the Danish public art collective re-drawing lines of civic power

Forensic Architecture: the architectural detective agency uncovering global human rights abuses

Gillian Wearing: the Turner Prize-winning artist peeling back layers of the human psyche

Carrie Mae Weems: the acclaimed US artist recontextualising Black American narratives

Victor Vasarely: the founder of op-art who hypnotised the world

Egon Schiele: the Austrian painter who redefined the nude portrait

Carsten Höller: flying machines, giant slides and psychoactive reindeer urine

Peter Doig: painting from memory

Anicka Yi: the artist who wants you to smell her art

Richard Serra: the American sculptor cutting up space-time with steel

Theaster Gates: the US artist reclaiming urban spaces through community action

Barbara Kruger: the legendary US artist who always speaks her mind

Hokusai: erotic woodprints and eternal visions of Mount Fuji