Thomas Kilpper’s artistic approach involves directly intervening in the respective exhibition context. Created here are space-consuming ground prints in wood or linoleum—usually portraying historical and present-day figures—from which large-format prints are created. Jimmie Durham’s sculptures, images, and poems in turn thematically explore worldly experience from the perspective of outsiders. Kilpper and Durham, each with an activist biography, expound through their artwork on the problems of relations between history, politics, and collective memory.
Artists
Thomas Kilpper (DE), Jimmie Durham (US)Marius Babias
Marius Babias is a curator and arts theorist. Since 2008 he has been director of Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n. b. k.). In 2005 he was commissioner of the Romanian Pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale. From 2001–2003 he was artistic co-director at Kokerei Zollverein | Zeitgenössische Kunst und Kritik in Essen. Between 1997–2001 Babias was visiting professor at the Städelschule Frankfurt/Main and at the Center for Contemporary Art Kitakyushu, Japan. In 1996 he won the Carl Einstein Prize for Art Criticism.
Christine König Galerie
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