Georg Paul Thomann (March 13, 1945 – July 21, 2005) was purported to be a renowned Austrian conceptual artist of the late 20th century.

Monochrom dealt with the conundrum by sending the persona of Georg P. Thomann,[2][3] an irascible, controversial (and completely fictitious) artist of longstanding fame and renown.

[4][5][6] Eva Grinstein remarks in Flash Art that through the implementation of this ironic mechanism – even the catalogue included the biography of the non-existent artist – the group solved with pure fiction the philosophical and bureaucratic dilemma attached to the system of representation presented to them by the Biennial.

The artist Chien-Chi Chang was invited as the representative of Taiwan, but the country's name was removed by the administration from his cube overnight and replaced by the label, "Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei".

Nico Israel wrote in Artforum that the chief curator of the Biennial, Alfons Hug, was seeking appeasement of China to avoid blowing up political minefields.

[9] Monochrom wanted to show that artists do not necessarily have to internalize the fragmentation and isolation imposed by the rat-race of art markets and exhibitions as society-controlling imperatives.

"[12] In 2005 monochrom published a press release that "Austrian artist and writer Prof. Georg Paul Thomann died in a tragic accident at the tender age of 60.

Thomann's tombstone was originally placed in the town's park, but it got removed in the same year by order of the head of a nearby psychiatric clinic.