{"id":703,"date":"2021-11-19T09:46:14","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T09:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afmuseet.no\/en\/artists\/martin-kippenberger\/"},"modified":"2023-01-19T10:40:51","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T10:40:51","slug":"martin-kippenberger","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/www.afmuseet.no\/en\/artist\/martin-kippenberger\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Kippenberger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-afm-block-artwork-hero alignfull alignfull wp-block-afm-block-artwork-hero has-background has-neutral-50-background-color\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"afm-block-artwork-hero__blocks\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n\t\n\t<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\t\n\t<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n\t\t<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">Martin Kippenberger<\/h2>\n\t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-group artwork-meta is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-afm-post-meta\"><h3 class=\"wp-block-afm-label\">Date of birth<\/h3> 1953<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-afm-post-meta\"><h3 class=\"wp-block-afm-label\">Date of death<\/h3> 1997<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-afm-post-meta\"><h3 class=\"wp-block-afm-label\">Country<\/h3> Germany<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n<\/div>\n\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Martin Kippenberger was one of the most complex artists of the 1980s and 1990s and is today considered to be amongst the most important of his generation. As an enfant terrible, he first attracted the attention of the art world with his charismatic, humorous and provocative approach, together with others of the \u201cNeue Wilden\u201d tendency such as Werner B\u00fcttner, Albert Oehlen, and G\u00fcnter F\u00f6rg.\n\nHis productive oeuvre, covering a multiplicity of styles and media, came to an abrupt end when he died at only forty-four years of age.\n\nThe first shifts towards new and expressive figuration appeared in Germany in the 1960s with artists such as Georg Baselitz, Markus L\u00fcpertz and Bernd Koberling, and the appearance of the Neue Wilden in the 1980s marked the peak of this trend. Kippenberger first made his mark as a painter at this time, when figurative and narrative paintings were enjoying an upswing following the Minimalism and Conceptualism of the 1970s. Kippenberger\u2019s punk temperament, audacious motifs and chaotic picture compositions are part of an artistic tradition that embraces Dadaism and Pop art and includes fellow countrymen such as Gerhard Richter and Sigmar Polke. The complexities and contrasts in his picturesque collages, often employing numerous layers of paint, and of overlapping associations and dissimilarities, can seem overwhelming. Dissimilar fields clash and figurative motifs are superimposed on more abstract strokes. His use of \u201cpictures in the pictures,\u201d combined with letters and titles, thwarts clear-cut interpretation. \n\nAt first glance, Kippenberger can appear ironic, though he was not ironically distanced from either the form or the content in his work. He does, however, employ humour and takes a sarcastic sideways glance at society, cloaking his feelings of restlessness, emptiness and abandonment. Working at a time when he considered it impossible to come up with anything original or genuine \u2013 and faced with what he considered to be \u201cthe death of painting\u201d \u2013 he produced composite paintings that embraced diametrically different styles in a single work. \n\nBut Kippenberger\u2019s art is not limited to painting; it also finds expression in installations, sculptures, performance, texts, sketches, publications and other artefacts. He kicked out in many directions and commented in his ambiguous way on everything from postwar Germany\u2019s efficiency, to Nazism, the left-wing terrorist group R.A.F, the Cold War, modernist architecture and the museum as an institution.\n\nKippenberger was often on the move between Florence, Hamburg, Berlin, Stuttgart, Cologne, Spain, Tenerife, Los Angeles and Greece. Reflecting this activity, he conceived a conceptual worldwide metro system, METRO-Net World Connection, in which non-functioning stations would be placed in the unlikeliest locations from Alaska to Syros. Through flight of thought, these could serve as his means of escape to different parts of the world. His travels and his social energy also brought him many international contacts, and his unwavering commitment to other artists made him an art collector, curator and director. He would even commission contemporary artists such as Jeff Koons and Christopher Wool to design his exhibition posters. In this sense, Kippenberger can be seen as an artist who was ahead of his time, taking upon himself all the tasks that artists today take for granted, including curating exhibitions, writing texts, self-promotion, and working globally, collaboratively, and interdisciplinarily.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"afm_hide_title":false,"afm_artist_date_of_birth":"1953","afm_artist_date_of_death":"1997","afm_artist_birth_place":"Germany","_afm_post_new_title":""},"class_list":["post-703","artist","type-artist","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Martin Kippenberger - Astrup Fearnley Museet<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.afmuseet.no\/en\/artists\/martin-kippenberger\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Martin Kippenberger\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Martin Kippenberger was one of the most complex artists of the 1980s and 1990s and is today considered to be amongst the most important of his generation. 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