Jens Kloppmann
Jens Kloppmann (* 1969 in Witten ) is a German conceptual artist .
Life
From 1994 to 1998 Kloppmann studied Fine Art at the Bauhaus University Weimar and the Kassel Art College . His most important exhibitions to date have been The Other Side , 2006 in the Kunsthalle Fridericianum Kassel and Art, Live & Confusion , October Salon Belgrad, 2006.
Kloppmann lives in Berlin .
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As an artistic work, Jens Kloppmann uses selected collective memories, which he comments in fretwork, mounted photographs, paintings, sculptures and actionist projects and transfers them to a further, abstract level. Often his works have a historical-political background. Examples are:
- Bonn is not Weimar : Based on the winged phrase of the journalist Fritz René Allemann, who compared the Weimar Republic with the Bonn Republic, Kloppmann exchanged two entrance signs for the cities of Bonn and Weimar in order to question the content of the sentence.
- In photographic exile - revenge for Trotsky : After Stalin had succeeded in banishing his competitor Leon Trotsky , he had his picture retouched from historical photographs. While Stalin had Trotsky's face retouched from historical photographs, Kloppmann mounted it into them.
- Dictators with animals : In the iconography of rulers, the depicted is sometimes given an animal as a symbol of strength, cunning or virtue. The series shows fictional portraits of dictators of the 20th century, who are also depicted with animals and comment on the essence of those depicted.
Exhibitions
- 1995 Weimar - feeling real, Galerie Unwahr, Berlin (cat) 2004
- 1996 Bonn is not Weimar
- 1996 Lug und Trug, Upper Austrian Culture Notes, A-Gmunden
- 1998 Phase 4, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (mwk)
- 2000 My world is not enough, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel (mwk) (cat)
- 2000 Ufo strategies, Edith-Ruß_Haus, Oldenburg (mwk) (K)
- 2002 In photographic exile - revenge for Trotsky - Felsenmeer Museum Hemer
- 2002 Starfish, Eutropa Project, Helsinki Zoo, Finland
- 2002 Stopover, Kunsthallen Dampfzentrale, CH-Bern (mwk)
- 2004 Bad Kleinen Summer Camp, Juwel Palais, Berlin
- 2006 Art, Live & Confusion, October Salon 2006, Belgrade
- 2006 The other side, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (cat)
- 2007 Sculptor Symposium, Bad Salzhausen (cat)
- 2008 Utopia of Space, Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Web links
- Jens Kloppmann's website
- Description from the Fridericianum Kassel
- Description from the October Salon Belgrade
- Interview with Kloppmann
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kloppmann, Jens |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German concept artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1969 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Witten |