Gregor Schneider is a Plasticien German born in 1969 with Rheydt, Germany.

Regarded a long time as one of the most hermetic contemporary artists, it profits from a true recognition in 2001 with attribution, the June 9th, of the Gold Lion the best national participation in the Biennale de Venise when it has, with its work dead Maison UR , carried out the German house.

In 2007, one of its installations made much speak about it: the Cubic Hamburg 2007 . From March in June 2007, the artistic Center of Hamburg presented an exposure on the key topic of abstract painting; Gregor Schneider there proposed a cube of 13 bills of quantities of with dimensions having same dimensions as the Ka' Ba to Mecque, is exactly like the place more crowned Islam, wrapped of a large black fabric to the aspect velvet and is directed in the same way that Ka' Ba. Envisaged initially to be set up right in the middle of the Place Saint-Marc, at the time of the fiftieth Biennale de Venise in 2003, the installation had been prohibited because of its political character. Considered then in Berlin in 2006, the polemics on the tolerance and freedom of expression in the art and the possible wound of the religious feelings of the Moslems prevented his realization. At the time of its in February 2007 presentation in Hamburg, the cube was favorably accommodated by the local Moslems, and was even voted by plebiscite by the Muslim community as a project which supports comprehension between the people.