The Politics of Heritage vs. the Heritage of Politics by renowned German artist activist Thomas Kilpper, is an ambitious exhibition comprising a large-scale site-specific floor carving, commissioned by Edinburgh Printmakers to celebrate the launch and heritage of our new home Castle Mills.
Impressions. Five Centuries of Woodcuts
THE NATIONAL GALLERY
Universitetsgata 13
NO – 0164 Oslo
My gratitudes go to my artistic assistants: Cao Yanyi, Tobias Prytz,
Tova Fransson, Olav Mathisen, Victor Guzman and Jan Hamstra
nasjonalmuseet.no
Thomas Kilpper i utstillingen «Avtrykk. Tresnitt fra fem århundrer»
Exhibition opening: December 6, 2013 7pm
Duration of exhibition: December 7, 2013 – February 16, 2014
Opening hours: Wed – Fri 2 – 6 pm, Sat 1 – 4 pm
The work GÜNTER SARE refers to a violent police operation in Frankfurt in 1985 against an anti-fascist demonstration. During the police operation Günter Sare was hit by a water cannon and fatally injured. The demonstration was directed against an event of the NPD in the Bürgerhaus Gallus in the year before the so-called Auschwitz trial took place. The worn out tires of a water cannon of the Frankfurt police were now used as a printing block…
WOLFSTÆDTER Galerie
Rotlintstrasse 98
60389 Frankfurt
Tel: ++49 163 6329817
http://www.wolfstaedter.de
Opening: Wednesday, June 19, 2013, 7 pm
Exhibition: June 20 – August 31, 2013
Galerie Nagel Draxler
Weydinger Str. 2/4
10178 Berlin
Exhibition opening at the Ex-Chinese restaurant at
Budapest 1114, Bartók Béla út 29.
Opening: 5th November, 6pm
Opening times: 5th – 17th November, 4-7pm
Participating artist:
Mike Ainsworth, Sós József, Zékány Dia, Aubrey Ramage Lay, Davor Paponja, Laura Arena, Levko Esztella, Erlich Gábor, Kis Judit, Pálinkás Bence György, Bogyó Virág (PR Csoport), Hódi Csilla (PR Csoport)
A workshop led by:
Thomas Kilpper
Organised by IGOR METROPOL, “Social Responsibility in Art Today” (SRIAT) is a two-week initiative comprised of an artists’ workshop, an exhbition At Wang’s and a public discussion at Ludwig Museum.
The project aims at inquiring into the possibilities of art as a factor of social change through different means. SRIAT’s goal is to give a time frame and space for experimental approaches towards relevant issues like freedom of speech, domestic violence, nationalism/ internationalism, identity, capitalism, democracy…, introducing a collective artistic work field.
The workshop is led by Berlin based artist Thomas Kilpper. Following an open call, 12 participants from Hungary and abroad were selected to collaborate with Kilpper in a think-tank format.
The participants are working at Wang’s, a former Chinese restaurant. The restaurant’s walls have been turned into an “open diary” constantly updated by the participants. The inner part of the space has been transformed into a shelter, using the interior design of the formal restaurant. The shelter is also a site for personal statements from the participants.
In addition, there are sound- and video installations, intervention documentations and a live-performance. The place has been continuously transformed during the workshop, during the two-week long process.
The participants explore various politically or culturally charged sites of Budapest. The demonstrations of the National Holiday on October 23 served as a field study for investigating the Hungarian political situation. They targeted a number of public statues, for example Ronald Reagan, a bronse policeman, among others. These ‘guerilla sculptures’ address social and political issues like the banning of dumpster-diving or censorship. The documentation is displayed on found video tapes refering to DIY-tactics of political activism.
The project SRIAT: Social Responsibility in Art Today was organized by Igor Metropol Association in collaboration with the Intermedia, the Art Theory and Curatorial Studies Departments of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in Budapest. Supported by: ifa and NKA.
The exhibition ETNA CARRARA presents works by the nine artists who were awarded the renowned Villa Romana Prize in 2011 and 2012: Wolfgang Breuer, Nine Budde, Thomas Kilpper, Henrik Olesen, Sophie Reinhold, Yorgos Sapountzis, Nora Schultz, Rebecca Ann Tess and Vincent Vulsma.
On the occasion of the exhibition, Thomas Kilpper will develop a 15 x 4 metre banner for the façade of the Ludwig Forum Aachen, which is a partial impression of his floor work for the Venice Biennale 2011. The wooden floor of the “Pavilion for Revolutionary Freedom of Speech” with its 33 portraits of politicians served as a printing block for the large-format banner.
This exhibition features a major installation by the German artist Thomas Kilpper, entitled Pavilion for Revolutionary Free Speech. The work was originally created for the group exhibition Speech Matters at the Danish Pavilion at the 2011 Venice Biennale, where it took the form of a raised wooden platform attached to the exhibition building …
http://www.kunsthalcharlottenborg.dk
PRESS RELEASE: dispari&dispari project is pleased to invite you on Saturday February 11, 2012 to the opening of the exhibition “Venetian Prints”, the second solo show by Thomas Kilpper (Stuttgart, 1956) at dispari&dispari project. This time Kilpper transforms the exhibition space into a printing office laying out the wooden floor of his “Pavilion for Revolutionary Free Speech” that he made last year for the Danish Pavilions “Speech Matters” exhibition within the 54th Venice Biennial. For the first time he now has the opportunity and working conditions to use his 140 square meters large floor-cut from the Venice Biennial as a template to do large-scale prints on paper and fabrics.
In this work Kilpper refers to social issues such as censorship, abuse of freedom of expression or the exclusion of parts of mankind or the society. However the main focus is set on the general situation in Europe, where within the last 20 years a shift in political power did happen: The once marginal factions of the extreme right have moved closer to the centers of power. This development was to be seen from France to Italy, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium to Hungary and Austria… Kilpper stresses this has to be stopped and turned by a new move towards freedom, emancipation and social equality. “I want an open Europe, where we all live with equal rights, especially with the immigrants and refugees from other cultures”, Kilpper states in an interview with the German press agency, dpa.
The exhibition is open until April 15, 2012, for more information visit www.dispariedispari.org
Thanks for the support to Maramotti Collection / Max Mara, Reggio Emila
below fotos show work in progress at in Reggio Emilia
Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst e.V.
Oranienstraße 25 | 10999 Berlin
January 22 – February 13, 2011
Opening: January 21, 7pm
Scholarship holders of the Berlin Senate’s Working Scholarship for Visual Arts 2010
Every year, artists are awarded a scholarship by the Berlin Senate. This year again, the RealismusStudio of the NGBK will present the works of the artists living in Berlin in the exhibition “Selected Artists 2010”.
Artists: Matthias Einhoff, Lars Teichmann, Nezaket Ekici, Karolin Meunier, Heimo Lattner, Ingo Gerken, Maya Bajevic, Egill Saebjörnsson, Amir Fattal, Johannes Paul Raether, Carsten Fock, Stephanie Kloss, Thomas Kilpper, Ulf Aminde and Swantje Hielscher
Thomas Kilpper, who received international attention especially for his artistic interventions in vacant buildings, will produce a new series of small drawings entitled “After War Krauts” for his exhibition at Galerie WOLFSTÆDTER. In this series he deals in a very special way with German post-war history. Kilpper’s current work is based on …Paul Swiridoff’s photographs. Swiridoff (1914-2002) set a monument to the West German post-war elite in three opulent illustrated books by Konrad Adenauer, Joseph Strauss, Ernst Jünger, Hermann J. Abs, Alfried Krupp and Friedrich Flick. Kilpper alienates and dissects these portraits with the simplest of artistic means. In the process, these formerly powerful people experience a peculiar form of deconstruction and decomposition. Photography as a means of transmitting the representation of power is undermined and counteracted. Kilpper’s installation thus becomes a tension-laden, anti-authoritarian historical tableau of post-war West German history.
Galerie Wolfstaedter
Rotlintstraße 98
Frankfurt, Germany
squat or be damned
My work was commissioned and created as part of the Fokus Biennale 2010, Lodz: squat or be damned, 2010: ‘Dekorative Barikaden’, in front of five different empty buildings, all of which stand on Pietrowska, Europe’s longest boulevard in Lodz.
The Public Art Festival Tumult invites you to the
Opening of Thomas Kilpperʼs Anemonevej Surprises and
Tumult Finissage Party!
Saturday, October 16 – Nakskov, Anemonevej 1-27
Programme
17.00: introduction/guided tour by Thomas Kilpper
18.30: The local Nakskov groups Ghetto Pearls, Lopʼg boyz and Double Es
play and dance
20.00: Live concert with Gunni og Nitterne – the Copenhagen quartet plays gypsy, folk and punk
22 – : DJ David Prytz (Kilpperʼs assistant)
Tumult will offer cheap beers, drinks and soup all night. Bring your sleeping bag and stay the night at Kilpperʼs temporary straw-hostel at Anemonevej 27.
Free bus ride from Copenhagen, starting at 11 am, including guided tour to some of the Tumult art projects and a city walk in Nakskov by artist Frans Jacobi. Bus leaves at 11 am from Ingerslevgade (Cph Main Station), sign up to info[at]tumult.dk before 13 October, 12 am
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Kilpper at YouTube
Opening of the THOMAS KILPPER exhibition at this year’s Düsseldorf Cologne Open Galleries:
Friday, September 3, 2010, 6-10 pm
Saturday, September 4, 2010, 11-8 pm
Sunday, September 5, 2010, 1-8 pm
The artist’s works will be on view until October 30 in the gallery rooms of Christian Nagel in Cologne.
Galerie Christian Nagel
Richard-Wagner-Str. 28
50674 Cologne
Germany
T: +49 (0) 221 257 05 91
F: +49 (0) 221 257 05 92
cn.koeln [at] galerie-nagel.de
http://www.galerie-nagel.de