Martin Kippenberger

Martin Kippenberger was a versatile artist, who worked as a gallery owner, event promotor (manager of the SO 36 punk club in Berlin), painter and object artist. Many of his works testify to an ironic, critical approach to the mechanisms of art production and the art market…

In Martin Kippenberger’s remarkable series of self-portraits from 1988, he pictures himself with a touching lack of vanity. An exaggerated beer belly, folds of fat, a thick neck, and dejected posture present a melancholic, awkward and somewhat grumpy figure. He wears immense white underpants pulled up high on his hips – rather like a well-known photograph of Picasso…

Metro-Net was a great art idea by Martin Kippenberger—simple, intelligent, accessible, thought-provoking and funny. Kippenberger imagined a global underground metro system and started to construct entrances to it in different cities around the world…

Thing Net.

Thing Net.

Works in the MOMA

Drawings