37. MARTIN
KIPPENBERGER
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"Noch nie was von Arbeit gehört",
1992Wood, steel, paper and cord, 155 x 135,5 x 80
cm
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"Greek Style" 2, 1993Drawing on poster, 37,5 x 57,5 cm
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"Greek Style" 6, 1993Drawing on poster, 37,5 x 57,5 cm
BIO & STEPS
Born:
In 1953, in Dortmund, Germany
He died
1997, in Vienna, Austria
Studies:
He
studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Kunst in Hamburg. After a sejourn in
Florence, where he had his first solo show in 1977, he settled in Berlin in
1978. In 1984, he became a founding member of the Lord
Jim Lodge and
moved to Los Angeles in late 1989. He stayed in Sankt Georgen im Schwarzwald as
a guest of the Grässlin family of art collectors from 1980 to 1981, and later
on and off from 1991 to 1994, in order to work but also to recover from his
excessive life. In his last years he taught at the Städelschule and the Kassel
Art Academy.
Martin Kippenberger died at age 44 from liver cancer at the
Vienna General Hospital
Themes and style:
Throughout
the 1980s, Kippenberger’s artwork underwent periods of strong political reflection. On
the other hand, he also felt that he was working in the face of a 'perceived
death of painting' and his art reflects his struggle with the concept that, at
the turn of the millennium, it was impossible to produce anything original or
authentic.
Kippenberger made
the first of Laterne (Lamp) sculptures in 1988, a year that he spent largely
living in Seville and Madrid in Spain.However, in the 1990s, influenced by the
Lost Art Movement,Kippenberger had the idea of an underground network
encircling the whole world.
Last but not least,
during the last 10 years of his life, he created a series of drawings on hotel
stationery, which are commonly referred to as the 'hotel drawings' (1987–1997).Originally
undertaken as ad hoc preparatory diagrams for the three-dimensional Peter
sculptures, he later used the myriad letterheads of innumerable hotels to
capture other subjects and inspirations.
Techniques:
Kippenberger’s refusal to adopt a
specific style and medium in which to disseminate his images resulted in an
extremely prolific and varied oeuvre which includes an amalgam of sculpture,
paintings, works on paper, photographs, installations, prints and ephemera.
Selected
Solo Exhibitions
2013
“Martin
Kippenberger: A Cry for Freedom”, curated by D. Palaiokrassas, Museum of
Cycladic Art, Athens
2011
“Eggman
II,” Skarstedt Gallery, New York, NYC
2009
“Martin
Kippenberger,” Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG, Zurich
“Martin
Kippenberger: The problem Perspective”, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2008
“Martin
Kippenberger: The problem Perspective”, MOCA, Los Angeles
2007
“Martin
Kippenberger/ Alina Szapocznikow”, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
2006
“Dieter
Roth / Martin Kippenberger,” Hauser & Wirth Coppermill, London
“Martin
Kippenberger,” Tate Modern, London
“Ihr
Kippy Kippenberger,” Baerbel Graesslin Gallery, Frankfurt (cat.)
2005
“The
Bermuda Triangle, Syros to Dawson City: The First Connection and 40 Drawings
from the Collection of Michel Wurthle,” Foundation 20 21, New York
“Self-Portraits,”
Luhring Augustine, New York (cat.)
2004
“The
Bermuda Triangle, Syros to Dawson City: The First Connection and 40 Drawings
from the Collection of Michel Wurthle,” Foundation 20 21, New York (cat.)
“Self-Portraits,”
Luhring Augustine, New York (cat.)
2003
Museum
Für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe. Germany (cat.)
Venedig
2003 (with Candida Höfer), Venice Bienalle, German Pavillion, Venice (cat.)
2002
“Martin
Kippenberger– Hotel Drawings,” David Zwirner, New York
“Martin
Kippenberger-– Metro-Net Projects,” Beaumont-Public + König-bloc, Luxembourg
“Martin
Kippenberger– Selected Works,” Zwirner & Wirth, New York
2001
“Martin
Kippenberger- 'Bilder einer Ausstellung',” Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt
Galerie
Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt (and 1985, 1987, 1990, 1994)
2000
“Martin
Kippenberger: Hotel Drawings and The Happy End of Franz Kafka’s ‘Amerika’,”
joint exhibition at The Smart Museum and The Renaissance Society, University of
Chicago, Chicago
Metro
Pictures, New York (and 1985, 1987, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1997)
Galerie Gisela
Capitain, Cologne (and Galerie Ascan Crone, Hamburg (and 1987, 1989, 1990,
1991, 1997)
1999
“Martin
Kippenberger: Self-portraits, The Happy End of Franz Kafka’s ‘America’,
Sozialkistentransport, Lanterns, etc.”, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
“Together
Again Like Never Before: The Complete Poster Works of Martin Kippenberger,”
1301PE, Los Angeles
David
Nolan Gallery, New York (and 1989, 1991, 1993)
1998
“Martin
Kippenberger,” MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles (cat.)
“Martin
Kippenberger,” Kunsthalle Basel (cat.)
“Martin
Kippenberger,” Kunsthalle Zurich (cat.)
“Martin,”
steirischer herbst 98, Graz, Austria
“Hotel
Drawings,” Works on Paper, Los Angeles (cat.)
1997
“Respektive,”
Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva; Museo d’Arte Contemporanea,
Castello di Rivoli, Turin
“Der
Eiermann und sien Ausleger,” Stadtisches Museum Abteiberg Monchengladbach,
Germany
“Kathe
Kollwitz Prize Exhibition,” Akademie der Bildendun Kunste, Berlin
1996
“Made in
Syros,” Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens
Galerie
Mikael Anderson, Copenhagen
Villa
Merkel, Esslington
Samia
Saouma Gallery, Paris (and 1991, 1993)
1995
“Directions:
Martin Kippenberger,” Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
“Exit of
the Underground Station Dawson City West,” Dawson City, Canada
1994
Galerie
Borgmann-Capitain, Cologne
“The
Happy End of Franz Kafka’s Amerika,” Boymans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam
Espace
Departemental d’Art Contemporain, Chauvigny, France
Brandenburgischer
Kunstverein, Potsdam
Galeria
Juana de Aizpuru, Seville and Madrid (and 1989)
1993
“Candidature
á une Retrospective,” Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
“Pictures
of an Exhibition,” Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis (cat.)
“Entrance
to the Subway Station Lord Jim,” Kthma Canné Hrousa, Syros, Greece
Villa
Arson, Nice
1992
Galerie
Max Hetzler, Cologne (and 1984, 1985, 1987, 1989)
Galerie
Klein, Bonn (and 1985, 1991)
Galerie
Bleich-Rossi, Graz (and 1985, 1987, 1990)
1991
“Heavy
Mädel,” Pace/MacGill, New York (cat.)
Luhring
Augustine Hetzler, Santa Monica
“Martin
Kippenberger: New Work,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (cat.)
“Tiefes
Kehlchen,” Wiener Festwochen, Vienna (cat.)
“The
Beginning Was a Retrospective,” Karsten Schubert Gallery, London
“Heavy
Burschi,” Koelnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (cat.)
Kunstraum
Daxer, Munich (cat.)
“William
Holden Company On Tour,” Galerie Wewerka & Weiss, Berlin
1990
Villa
Arson, Nice, France (cat.)
Galleri
Nordanstad - Skarstedt, Stockholm
“American
Dreamer in Italy,” Gio Marconi, Milan
“Heimweh-Highway
90,” Fundacio Caixa de Pensions, Barcelona
Anders
Tornberg Gallery, Lund, Sweden
Galerie
Peter Pakesch, Vienna (and 1984, 1987)
1989
Halle
Sud, Geneva (cat.)
“New
Photographic Works,” Galerie F.C. Gundlach, Hamburg
Institute
of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (brochure)
Museum
of Contemporary Art, Seville
Galerie
Sylvana Lorenz, Paris (and 1987)
1988
Kunsthalle
Winterthur, Switzerland
1987
Galerie
Susan Wyss, Zurich
Galerie
Norballe, Copenhagen
“Pop
In,” Forum Stadtpark, Graz
1986
“Miete
Strom Gas,” Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt (catalogue)
Galerie
Durr, Munich
Oldenburger
Kunstverein, Oldenburg, Germany
CCD
Galerie, Dusseldorf (and 1985)
Galerie
Ascan Crone, Hamburg (and 1985)
1985
Galerie
van Beveren, Rotterdam
Galerie
Heinrich Ehrhardt, Frankfurt
Kuhlenschmidt
Simon Gallery, Los Angeles
1983
Galerie
Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne
1981
Galerie
Max Hetzler, Stuttgart (and 1983)
Galerie
Achim Kubinski, Stuttgart
Selected
Group Exhibitions
2013
“ART IN
EUROPE SINCE 1945: BEYOND BOUNDARIES”, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art,
Thessaloniki, Greece
“6
Artists”, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens
2010
“James
Ensor-Hareng Saur: Ensor et l’art contemporain,”SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor
Actuele Arts, Ghent
“Out Of
the Office/ Ruhr 2010,” Kunstmuseum Bochum, Germany
“Compass
in hand,” Selección de la Colección de dibujo contemporáneo de la Fundación
Judith RSe Não Neste Tempo – Pintura Alemã Contemporânea: 1989-2010 - Museu de
Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand - MASP, São Pauloothschild - IVAM -
Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia
“Happy
End,” Kunsthalle Göppingen, Göppingen
“Jeder
Künstler ist ein Mensch,” Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden
“Taking
Place,” Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam
“Transzendenz
Inc.” Autocenter, Berlin
“Wahrheit
ist Arbeit,” Villa Schöningen, Potsdam
“FischGrätenMelkStand,”
Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, Berlin (closed, 2010)
“Mike
Kelley / Martin Kippenberger,” Galería Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid
“Pop
Life: Art in a Material World,” National Gallery of Canada - Musée des
beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, ON
“Modèles
modèles 2,” Mamco - musée d´art moderne et contemporain, Geneva
“TWENTY
FIVE,” Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York City, NY
“The
Fate of Irony,” KAI 10 Raum für Kunst , Dusseldorf
“So Be
It: Interventions in Printed Matter,” Andrew Roth Gallery, New York City, NY
“Man Son
1969. Vom Schrecken der Situation,” Villa Merkel & Bahnwärterhaus,
Esslingen
“Amor
Parvi oder Die Liebe zum Kleinen,” Kunstverein Langenhagen, Langenhagen
“Pop
Life - Warhol, Haring, Koons, Hirst, …,” Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
2009
“Just
what is it…,” ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe,
Karlsruhe
“The
Irreverent Object,” Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York City, NYarte Blanche
“IX: >Vor heimischer Kulisse<,”Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst - GfZK,
Leipzig
2007
“The
80’s: A Topology,” Museum Serralves, Porto, Portugal (cat.)
2006
“Make
Your Own Life: Artists In & Out of Cologne,” ICA: University of
Pennsylvania; The Powerplant, Toronto; The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; MOCA,
Miami
2005
“Flashback:
Revisiting the Art of the Eighties,” Kunstmuseum Museum for Gegenwartskunst,
Basel (cat.)
2002
“En
Route,” Serpentine Gallery, London
2001
“Wechselstrom-
Alternating Current,” Sammlung Hauser und Wirth, St. Gallen, Switzerland
“Televisions,”
Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria (cat.)
“ABBILD:
Recent Portraiture and Depiction,” Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria (cat.)
“Painting
at the Edge of the World,” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (cat.)
2000
“Lost,”
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
“Let’s
Entertain,” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, (cat.); Centre Georges Pompidou,
Paris; Portland Art Musuem, Oregon; Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
(cat.); Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany (2001); Miami Art Museum,
Miami (2001)”Carnegie International 1999/2000,” Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
(cat.)
The
Sydney Biennale 2000 (cat.)
“Many
Colored Objects Placed Side by Side to Form a Row of Many Colored Objects”,
Casino Luxembourg, Belgium (cat.)
“Open
Ends,” Museum of Modern Art, New York
1999
“Double
Lives,” Institut de Cultura de Barcelona (cat.)
“Millennium
My Eye!” Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
“Examining
Pictures,” Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
(cat.)
The
Venice Biennale, Venice (cat.)
1997
“Documenta
X,” Kassel (cat.)
“Skupturenprojekt,”
Munster (cat.)
“Display,”
The Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen
“Deep
Storage: Arsenale der Erinnerung,” Haus der Kunst, Munich;Nationalgalerie SMPK,
Berlin; Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf im Ehrenhof; P.S.1 Center for Contemporary Art,
New York; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (cat.)
1996
“Everything
that’s interesting is new: The Dakis Joannou Collection” (organized by the
DESTE Foundation, in conjunction with The Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen),
Athens School of Fine Arts “the factory
“Martin
Kippenberger’s Villa Hugel for the spirit of the times,” Villa Merkel, Galerien
der Stadt Esslingen, Pulverwiesen, Esslingen am Neckar, Germany
1994
“Martin
Kippenberger presents: The Supershadows of Understatement with Christopher Wool
– Ulli Strothjohann and special guest”, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens
“Steirischer
Herbst ‘94,” Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria
“The
Century of the Multiple: From Duchamp to the Present,” Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
“Temporary
Translation(s): Sammlung Schurmann,” Deichtorhallen Hamburg (cat.)
“Cocido
y Crudo,” Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (cat.)
1993
Martin
Kippenberger (M.K.) – Michael Krebber (M.K.) in cooperation with MOMAS, Eleni
Koroneou Gallery, Athens
“Artist’s
Books,” Museum Haus Lange und Haus Esters, Krefeld
“Travelogue,”
Hochschule fuer Angewandte Kunst, Vienna
1992
“German
Artists - Works on Paper”, Georg Baslitz, Joseph Beuys, Martin Kippenberger,
Helmut Middendorf, A.R. Penck, Sigmar Polke, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens
“Ars Pro
Domo,” Ludwig Museum, Cologne
“Allegories
of Modernism- Contemporary Drawing,” Museum of Modern Art, New York (cat.)
“Post
Human,” Musée d’Art Contemporain, Pully/Lausanne, Switzerland; Castello di
Rivoli, Turin; Deste Foundation, Athens; Israel Museum, Jerusalem;
Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (cat.)
“Avantgarde
& Kampagne,” Staedtische Kunsthalle Dusseldorf
“Qui,
Quoi, Ou?” Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
“Malen
ist Wahlen,” Kunstverein Munich (cat.)
“German
Photography,” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Guggenheim Museum, New York;
Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles
1991
“Objects
for an Ideal Home,” Serpentine Gallery, London
“Buchstaeblich,”
Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, Germany
1989
“Investigations,”
Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
“Sammlung
F.C. Gundlach,” Kunstverein in Hamburg (cat.)
“I
Triennal de Dibuix Joan Miro,” Joan Miro Foundation, Barcelona
1988
“Aperto
88,” Venice Biennale (cat.)
“Refigured
Painting: The German Image 1960-88,” Toledo Museum of Art; Guggenheim Museum,
New York; Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf; and Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (cat.)
1987
“Berlinart
1961-1987,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York (cat.)
“Buttner
Oehlen Oehlen Kippenberger,” Villa Arson, Nice; Centre National d’Art
Contemporain, Grenoble (cat.)
“Broken
Neon,” Steirischer herbst 87-Forum, Stadtpark, Graz
“Room
Enough — Sammlung Schurrmann,” Suermondt - Ludwig Museum, Aachen, Germany
(cat.)
“Fotografie,”
Groninger Museum, The Netherlands
1985
“Das
Selbsportrait im Zeitalter der Photographie,” Wurttembergischer Kunstverein,
Stuttgart
“Anniottanta,”
Gallerie Communale d’Arte, Moderna di Bologna (cat.)
1984
“Wahrheit
ist Arbeit,” Museum Folkwang, Essen
“Zwischenbilanz,”
Neue Galerie am Joanneum, Graz; Museum Villa Stuck, Munich; Forum fur Aktuelle
Kunst/Galerie Krinzinger, Innsbruck; Rheinisches
“Tiefe
Blicke,” Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt
“Kunstlandschaft
Bundesrepublik,” Kunstverein in Hamburg
In his own words:
“He was at the centre of his art, always
acting a part, playing a role. "I am a travelling salesman," he
insisted. "I deal in ideas" - even if those ideas were not his own.”
Representative
Galleries:
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne.
Luhring Augustine
Gallery, New York
Eleni Koroneou Gallery
For
more Information:
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2006/feb/07/2
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Español:
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