Martin Kippenberger

Martin Kippenberger ( born February 25, 1953 in Dortmund, † March 7, 1997 in Vienna ) was a German painter, installation artist, performance artist, sculptor and photographer.

Life

1972 to 1976 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg ( with Claus Böhmler, Arnold Hauser and Franz Erhard Walther ). Then he moved to Florence. In 1977, he became acquainted with Werner Büttner, Albert and Markus Oehlen. 1978 therefore saw the move to Berlin. Together with Gisela Capitain founded Kippenberger, 1978 in Berlin " Kippenberger's office ", where he showed exhibitions of young artists. At the same time, he was managing director of the event hall SO36.

1980 saw the move to Paris. In 1981 he participated in the group exhibition Rundschau Germany part. In 1984, he was with 6 works in the exhibition " depth looks - Art of the eighties of the Federal Republic of Germany, East Germany, Austria and Switzerland " at the Hessian State Museum in Darmstadt and at the show from here - two months new German art represented in Dusseldorf. In the same year he joined the Lord Jim Lodge (founder precisely this were next Kippenberger et al Jörg Schlick, Albert Oehlen, Wolfgang Bauer, her motto: " No one helps None " ) a. In 1988 he participated in the Venice Biennale. 1989 his daughter Helena Augusta Eleanor was born.

1990 Kippenberger took a visiting professorship at the Städel School in Frankfurt from 1992 and gave guest lectures at Yale University and at the Universities of Nice, Amsterdam and at the University of Kassel. In 1996 he was awarded the Käthe Kollwitz Prize. In 1997, he participated in Documenta X in Kassel and at the exhibition Skulptur.Projekte in Münster. In 2003, he was posthumously represented at the 50th Venice Biennale together with Candida Höfer for the German pavilion.

Kippenberger's works are attributable to the New Wild. In the tradition of Dada and Fluxus, he worked on the dismantling of the traditional concept of art. His means to do so were among other provocations and ridicule.

1986 showed the Hessian State Museum in Darmstadt with " rent - Electricity - Gas ," his first solo exhibition. Tate Modern opened on 8 February 2006, the first comprehensive retrospective of Martin Kippenberger's work in the UK. To 14 May, a selection of productive creativity Kippenberger could be seen in the Museum of London, including self-portraits from 1988 or numerous drawings from the hotel stationery series. The exhibition then traveled to the K21, Dusseldorf.

His 1990 created work, " First the Feet " - a crucified nailed grass green frog with beer mug and egg in his hands - made ​​2008 for attention. Pope Benedict XVI. supported the president of the South Tyrol Regional Council, Franz Pahl, with a letter that the crucified frog hurt the religious feelings of many people. Pahl went on a hunger strike to be removed the artwork from the Museum of Modern Art in Bolzano. Despite the hunger strikes, vigils and letters to the director of the museum and the Board confirmed their decision to keep the sculpture at the museum until the regular end of the exhibition.

Martin Kippenberger died on 7 March 1997 in Vienna at the consequences of liver cancer.

He has four sisters, inter alia, Susanne Kippenberger.

In honor of Kippenberger's Ben Becker wrote the song " Kippi or Kippy song."

Works (selection)

I can discover no swastika with the best will

The work I can not for the life of swastika discover from 1984 addresses the specific German problem of identity: Subversive wants Kippenberger question and satirize the morale of the Germans, and their relationship to its Nazi past.

First the feet

The sculpture first the feet, a crucified frog, created in 1990, is a self-deprecating reflective self-portrait.

Metro -Net

With Metro -Net Kippenberger was planning a worldwide metro system, consisting of only dummies of inputs and ventilation shafts, which sometimes played road noise and air currents generated by fans reinforced the fiction. On the first stop of Kippenberger's Metro -Net was established in 1993 on the Greek island of Syros Cyclades a stairway made ​​of concrete. The lower access, however, was blocked by a wrought iron door, which bore the emblem of Lord Jim Lodge. A crafted wooden subway exit came in August 1995 in Dawson and another output added in 1997 on the site of the Leipzig Fair. Several planned stations were built posthumously, as during the 1997 Documenta X in Kassel and the Skulptur.Projekte in Münster. A Portable Air Vent (1997 ) is located in the Grasslin collection and was exhibited for example in St. Georgen and Karlsruhe, a Transportable Subway Entrance (1997) was seen from 1997-1999 in Cologne Sculpture Park. 2003 was a further ventilation shaft in the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale has been installed, what - was sometimes discussed as not original factory - six years after the artist's death. As early as 2001 a finished still alive Kippenberger's 1997 Installation Portable subway entrance in the village of Madulain in Switzerland was built. At the gate is the logo of the Lord Jim Lodge, " Sun Breasts Hammer" to see.

Exhibitions (selection)

Public collections

Kippenberger's paintings, installations and sculptures are in numerous public collections. In German-speaking countries are the

• Hessian State Museum in Darmstadt, Darmstadt (Collection " depth looks " )
• K21 Art Collection North Rhine -Westphalia - in the House of the Estates, Dusseldorf
• Städel, Frankfurt / Main
• Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
• Museum Ludwig, Cologne
• Abbey Museum Mountain, Mönchengladbach
• Collection Falkenberg, Hamburg
• Gallery for Contemporary Art - Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig
• Art Space Grasslin, St. Georgen
• Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich ( Stoffel Collection )
• Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Zurich
• Mamco - musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Geneva
• Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt ( MMK)
• Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
• Essl Collection, Klosterneuburg
• Volpinum Art Collection, Vienna

In addition, his works are in collections and museums in Belgium, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Netherlands ( Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam), Norway, Spain (Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno ( CAAM ) ), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the USA (MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC) and the UK ( the Saatchi Gallery, London, Tate Britain, London, Tate Gallery of Modern Art, London) to see.

An operation in the Museum East Wall made ​​in November 2011 for headlines when there a cleaning lady with the 800,000 euro insured work of art When it starts to drip through the ceiling of Kippenberger blank scrubbed, and destroyed beyond recovery.

Discography

Album

• Markus Oehlen, Albert Oehlen, Immendorff, Werner Büttner, Martin Kippenberger and AR Penck - Revenge of memory, zigzag - ZZ 205 1984

Singles & EPs

• Pop In (7 ", Ltd ) Forum Stadtpark 1987
• Albert Oehlen / Martin Kippenberger - Nelson And The Alma tape (7 ", S / Sided ) car and Records 1990
• Beuys Best (CD, Single) Artists Only 1995

Compilations

• Greatest Hits (CD, Comp, Ltd ) Not On Label ( Martin Kippenberger Self -released ) 1996
• Music / 1979 - 1995 ◄ (2 versions) Edition Kröthenhayn 2010

Miscellaneous

• Mr. Ryslavy, Kurt ... ( Flexi, S / Sided, 5 ") Not On Label 1989

Movies

• Martin Kippenberger and Co - A document. "I can not cut off an ear every day to me." Written and directed by Jaqueline Kaess Farquet. Munich 1985 /2010. DVD. 25 min., Independent Artfilms
• Kippenberger - The movie; Germany / Austria 2005; Written and directed by Jörg Kobel, Diirbeck & Dohmen

Theater

The director Angela Richter staged in 2013 at the Schauspielhaus Cologne the piece Kippenberger! An excess of the moment.