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Pawe AlthamerSelf-Portrait in a Le a Hooligan Uniform 2009Colour markers and pen on paper29.5 42cmE imate: 5,000Courtesy the arti and Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw

In Self-Portrait as a Businessman , Polish arti Pawe Althamer appeared in Berlins Potsdamer Platz dressed as abusinessman. He then took off his clothes and walked awaynaked, leaving his belongings to remain for the duration of the exhibition. This work sugge ed a vulnerability (as wellas perhaps something more sini er) that Althamers workalways evokes that of the arti himself, and through him,perhaps of humanity at large. Self-Portrait in a Legia Hooligan Uniform , the work here, puts him in the skin of a supporter of the Warsaw football club.

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Gerard ByrneUntitled 2005ongoingThree silver gelatin prints, from the series Images orShadows of Divine Things48.5 42.5cm (framed)Edition 3 of 4E imate: 3,000 eachCourtesy the arti and Lisson Gallery, London

Gerard Byrnes pra ice, as could be seen this year in theVenice Biennale and in his retrospe ive at IMMA in Dublin,makes use of moving image and photographic work to ree on how cultural hi ory shapes us. By organising re-ena -ments of both landmark and marginal cultural moments, hebrings back to life the visual codes and the ideas that havemade us what we are. This hi ory is often that of a certainmodern ideal, as shown by the three photographic works do-nated here from the series Images or Shadows of Divine Things.

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ea DjordjadzeUntitled 2010Pla er and veneer40 18 14cmE imate: 4,300Courtesy the arti and Sprth Magers, Berlin and London the arti /UG Bild Kun

Thea Djordjadzes sculptures are concerned with themaking of obje s and the role they occupy in the world,as her in allation at the 5th Berlin Biennial proved. Whilereprising the language of Arte Povera, her works emphasisethe ta ility of the sculptural obje through depressionsand paint marks. Djordjadze also imbues her work witha process of ory-telling, using carpets for this purpose,and often referring to hi orical gures such as F. ScottFitzgerald, Vladimir Nabokov and Anna Akhmatova.

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Olafur Eliasson

Trampoline 2010Watercolour and pencil on paper77 91cmE imate: 18,000Courtesy the arti

Olafur Eliassons plays with perception and the naturalworld have seen him import ice from the Ar ic into hisBerlin gallery, cover his New York gallery with mirrors and,mo famously, ere a fake sun in the enormous space of theTurbine Hall ill probably Tate Moderns mo celebratedcommission for this space. His enquiry into perceptionand natural light is evident in the work he has donated toAfterall, which evokes the weightlessness of springing ona trampoline, translating these bodily perceptions into aplay of soft light.

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Rachel HarrisonFor Your Benet 2007Digital inkjet print40.6 29.2cm each (triptych)E imate: 3,000Courtesy the arti and Greene Naftali Gallery, New York

Rachel Harrisons sculptures talk about pop culture and highart: a collision and conation that results in surprising,often ungainly forms. The equations she makes between popu-lar trash and the We ern canon unsettle the assumptionsbehind each of these categories. Her recent solo show at theWhitechapel Gallery inve igated the USs love affair withmonetary exchange, which is what united her images of Ronald Reagan, Mel Gibson and Nam June Paik while, inthe work she has donated here, Abe Lincoln, alien invadersand one atuary offer a folk version of ofcial hi ory.

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Luc Tuymans e Spiritual Exercises

2007Portfolio of 7 lithographs printed on 250g Velin dArchespaper numbered and signed by the arti 69 56cm (each)Edition 48 of 50E imate: 13,000Courtesy the arti

Luc Tuymans has painted Condoleezza Rice and Chri masdecorations; Belgiums colonial pa in the Congo and pigeonson a sidewalk. Such a range makes explicit the ambition of his pra ice, which ree s the everyday in both its hi ori-cal and banal glory. Often drawing from photographs, hiswork and his decision to continue painting at a time whenthe medium fell out of critical favour has explored the roleof painting in a world of innite images. As a result he hasbecome one of the art hi orical giants of our day.