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About German Artist Martin Kippenberger Biography And His Exhibitions At The Saatchi-gallery
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As one of the most prodigious artists of the 1980s and 90s, Martin Kippenberger epitomised the romantic notion of the artist in the late 20th century. Inventing himself as the centre of the art world, Martin Kippenbergers practice was based on shameless self-promotion. Mythologizing himself as an Everyman-hero, Kippenberger's vast body of work is a testament to a larger-than-life character, a tragic-comic paladin, plagued as much by his own talent and success as by his ego and shortcomings.

Martin Kippenberger's Biography and Exhibitions

BIOGRAPHY
1953 Born in Dortmund, Germany
1971 Moved to Hamburg and lived in various communes
1972 Hamburg College of Art, Fine Art, BA
1978 Moved to Berlin. Became manager of the famous S.O. 36 hall venue.
1980 Moved to Paris and worked on his first novel
1983 Settled in Cologne, worked with Albert Oehlen
1997 Died in Vienna

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2004
Brasilien aktuell: The Magical Misery Tour Gagosian Gallery, London

2003
Das 2. Sein (The Second Being) Museum fr Neue Kunst/ZKM, Karlsruhe
Multiples Kunstverein, Braunschweig
Nach Kippenberger (After Kippenberger) Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven

2002
Dear Painter, paint me CentreGeorges Pompidou, Paris

1997
Documenta X Kassel, Germany
Der Eiermann und seine Ausleger (The Egg man and his Jib) Stdtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mnchengladbach, Germany

1994
The Happy End of Franz Kafkas America Museum Boijmans

van Beuningen, Rotterdam

1993
Kunstverein Kippenberger Fridericianum, Kassel
Kandidatur fr eine Retrospektive Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris Founds
MOMAS (Museum of Modern Art Syros), Greece Construction of the first subway station, Syros

1991
Put Your Eye In Your Mouth Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Heavy Burschi Klnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
Tiefes Kehlchen Installation, Vienna

Martin Kippenberger always went too far. Going too far was what the German artist did, in art and in life. It was said he once bought a dilapidated petrol station in Brazil and renamed it Gas Station Martin Boormann, after the Nazi war criminal. It was also rumoured that he installed a telephone line, with the greeting "Boormann... Gaz" on the answerphone. He certainly had a photograph taken of the service station, which he blew up to wall size for an installation.all his work is that. He wants to really invent and with every piece to make something new and to be real avant-garde. All day long and with all of his heart he really does believe in nothing else but in art. He doesn't define it, his father was an artist, he is an artist and his friends are artists.

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