"Martin Kippenberger's trickster aesthetic was aided and abetted by the owners of his famed Berlin hangout, the Paris Bar. One proprietor, Michael Würthle, provided Kippenberger with a place to make art at his family's house on the island of Syros, Greece; the other, Reinald Nohal, owned a summer retreat in Canada's Yukon Territory, which the artist visited. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held March 8 - April 23, 2005. Essay by Alison Gingeras. [details]
Two sided card / announcement published in conjunction with show held March 8 - April 23, 2005. [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held March 5 - April 30, 2005. Text by Robert Storr. [details]
Large-scale exhibition catalogue for show held August 21 - November 27, 2005 in Bremen; May 16 - October 1, 2006; and traveling to Museu Serralves, Porto, Autumn 2007. Exhibition and catalogue indexes over 3,000 records and record covers by artists published from 1950s through 2004. ... [details]
Over-sized monograph of Martin Kippenberger's work. "A member of the generation of versatile artists that emerged on to the international scene during the 1980s, Kippenberger did not limit himself to just one artistic medium. ... [details]
Monograph on the work on Martin Kippenberger. "With a reconstruction of reception history as his point of departure, Manfred Hermes attempts to dispel prevalent misunderstandings ('cynicism') while bringing the conceptual dimension of Kippenberger's oeuver into focus. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at The Jewish Museum San Francisco, San Francisco, March 7 - June 27, 2004. Traveled to Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, July 24 - October 3, 2004; and Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, June 9 - September 4, 2005. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held September 23 - December 4, 2004. Documents works by Martin Kippenberger produced while living in Brazil in 1985-86. Second half of catalogue documents Martin's "last epic series of works . ... [details]
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 just by making art of every variety and medium but also by conducting an extended performance in the vicinity of art that involved running galleries, organizing exhibitions, collecting the work of his contemporaries and overseeing assistants. ... [details]
