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Martin Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective

Martin Kippenberger The MIT Press The MIT Press
Martin Kippenberger (1953-1997) is a special case in art. His life and works were inextricably linked in a remarkable practice that centered on the role of the artist within both the culture and the system of art. With his larger-than-life persona,...
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Martin Kippenberger

Tate Publishing Tate Publishing
Martin Kippenberger's premature death in 1997 at the age of 43 brought to an end one of the most prolific and controversial careers in 20th-century art. While some critics dismissed the German painter and sculptor as a showman, others hailed him...
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100 Artists See God

Meg Cranston, Andrea Bowers, Angela Bulloch, John Baldessari, Chris Burden, Liam Gillick, Rebecca Horn, Christian Jankowski, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Paul McCarthy, Paul Pfeiffer, Richard Prince, Gerhard Richter, Ed Ruscha, Diana Thater Independent Curators International, New York Independent Curators International, New York
With a mix of irreverence and sincerity, artists John Baldessari and Meg Cranston here tackle nothing less than the question of God. Acting as curators, they have invited 100 artists to respond to one of art's most enduring challenges: picturing the...
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When Humour Becomes Painful (German Edition)

Slavoj Zizek, Vito Acconci, John Bock, Olaf Breuning, Martin Kippenberger JRP|Ringier JRP|Ringier
From Dada to Fluxus through Sensation to today, humor is at the heart of much of the most-beloved--and least comfortable--art out there. HumorĂ­s ambivalence, its ability to shift between the utopian and the destructive, and its refusal of absolute...
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Annotated Catalogue Raisonné of the Books by Martin Kippenberger 1977-1997

Diedrich Diederichsen, Alex Katz, Martin Kippenberger D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.
Roberta Smith called him the "madcap bad boy of contemporary German art" and also "one of the three or four best German artists of the postwar period." Martin Kippenberger disrupted the status quo throughout his too-short, highly excessive life, not...
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Martin Kippenberger: Modell

Daniel Birnbaum, Martin Prinzhorn, Elisabeth Hirschmann, Martin Kippenberger Walther Konig Walther Konig
Painter Christopher Wool has written, "Some of the best stand-up performance I ever saw was Martin [Kippenberger] telling jokes in the back of some bar or restaurant." Which is not to dismiss the legendary German artist, who was at the forefront of...
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Candida Hofer And Martin Kippenberger: Venice Biennale 2003

Martin Kippenberger Walther Konig Walther Konig
The curator in his essay and the two artists in their work have one thing in common: the question of space. In the 1990s, Kippenberger had the idea (documented here through drawings and a poster) of an underground network encircling the whole world....
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Martin Kippenberger: The Bermuda Triangle

Carol Eckman, David Nolan, Michael Wurthle, Martin Kippenberger nyehaus/foundation 20 21 nyehaus/foundation 20 21
Martin Kippenberger's trickster aesthetic was aided and abetted by the owners of his famed Berlin hangout, the Paris Bar. One proprietor, Michael Wrthle, provided Kippenberger with a place to make art at his family's house on the island of Syros,...
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Nach Kippenberger

Kathleen Buhler, Diedrich Diederichsen, Manfred Hermes, Anke Kempkes, Lucy McKenzie, Martin Prinzhorn, Martin Kippenberger Walther Konig Walther Konig
Martin Kippenberger died in 1997 at the young age of 44. Nach Kippenberger --after Kippenberger--collects together various essays which pave the way for an understanding of his work after the fact, for the next generation. Essayists include Eva...
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