Haacke shares Broodthaers' central preoccupation with institutional critique, directly exposing and questioning the power structures of museums and galleries through conceptual works that treat the institution itself as subject matter.

Kosuth similarly employs conceptual strategies that interrogate systems of classification and meaning, using everyday or industrial materials to question how cultural institutions frame and define objects and knowledge.

Buren consistently critiques the museum as an ideological framework through site specific and object based interventions, engaging with institutional spaces and display conventions in a manner directly parallel to Broodthaers' Département des Aigles series.