Installation view of Martin Kippenberger's Spiderman Studio (Spiderman-Atelier) (1996) at The Museum of Modern Art. Wood, metal, plastic, Plexiglas, mirrors, bronze, Styrofoam, painted canvases, vodka bottle, and balsa, 110 1/4 x 120 1/16 x 154 3/4 in. Herbert Foundation.
On
February 24, 2009, the Museum of Modern
Art held an opening night party for the new exhibition Martin
Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective (on view March
1 – May 11, 2009).
Martin Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective is
the first major retrospective of the work of Martin Kippenberger (German,
1953–1997) to be mounted in the United States. One of the most
significant and influential artists of our time, Kippenberger produced
a complex and richly prolific body of work from the mid-1970s until
his untimely death in 1997 at the age of 44. This large-scale exhibition
includes paintings, sculptures, installations,
multiples, drawings, photographs, posters, announcement cards, and
books, offering a
comprehensive examination of the artist's expansive 20-year career.
The exhibition will be on
view in MoMA's Joan and Preston Robert Tisch Gallery, sixth floor,
from March 1 to May 11, 2009. Kippenberger's installation The
Happy End of Franz Kafka's “Amerika” (1994)
is installed in the Museum's Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron
Atrium.
Martin Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective is organized
by The Museum of
Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), where it was on view from September
21, 2008, to
January 5, 2009. The exhibition was curated by MOCA Senior Curator
Ann Goldstein, Senior
Curator at MOCA. At MoMA, it is organized by Ann Temkin, The Marie-Josée
and Henry Kravis
Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture.
