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Along the chronology of Kippenberger’s career the exhibition shows selected examples of Kippenberger ́s paintings and conceptual painting projects as well as ensembles of his sculptures, multiples, drawings, posters, books and previously unpublished material.

With “Lieber Maler, male mir / Dear Painter, Paint for Me” (1981), “Heavy Burschi / Heavy Guy” (1991) and the installation “Weiße Bilder /White Paintings”(1992) the focus shifts to Kippenberger’s concept of delegating art to others. Interchange, confrontation and cooperation are the distinguishing characteristics of Kippenberger’s artistic endeavour. His constant search lead him to try out different roles, for instance, as a writer, a musician, a museum director and also as the manager of an underground railway network which operated on a worldwide level. As a club and restaurant owner he brought together art and entertainment. This lead the artist to wish with coquettish modesty that people would one day say of him: “Kippenberger was a good mood”.

An exhibition in cooperation with Tate Modern, London.
With the generous support of Kunststiftung NRW