Martin Kippenberger
EXHIBITION Apr 27 — Aug 31, 2013
Exhibition Text
Parallel to the extensive Kippenberger exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof Museum of Contemporary Art – which includes the photographic floor collage for Claudia Skoda – Kicken Berlin is showing photographic works by the prematurely deceased artist. A Leica camera was Kippenberger’s constant companion from the early 1970s on, and everyday objects and situations provided continual material. Pictures from Florence, where Kippenberger spent some time in 1976, served for example as the foundation of his series of paintings Uno di voi, un Tedesco in Firenze.
The presentation of bizarre and playful scenes in Claudia Skoda’s Kreuzberg shared artist flat – Kippenberger’s first Berlin home base in the late 1970s – is collected from Kippenberger’s unusually productive photographic work. Skoda and her knitting machine in the Kottbusser Tor subway station or at her factory loft are the focus of the composition. A double self-portrait with Skoda, a playing card collage, served as the invitation to a fashion show. Kippenberger was always interested in various photographic techniques and media: collage and photomontage, multiple and overexposures, manipulated negatives, Polaroid, and diapositives.
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Martin Kippenberger
1953–1997