Thomas Kilpper

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Thomas Kilpper (* 1956 in Stuttgart ) is a German installation artist , draftsman and wood cutter . He is known for his critical social and political interventions. Since 2014 he has been teaching at the Bergen School of Art and Design , Norway.

life and work

Kilpper studied painting and sculpture at the art academies in Nuremberg and Düsseldorf , there with Alfonso Hüppi . In 1998 he became a master student of Georg Herold at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main . As early as 1997 he made a woodcut as Russisches Parkett from the parquet floor of the former Soviet military mission in Frankfurt am Main- Niederrad, which was cleared for demolition, and made prints.

He then lived and worked in London on a grant from the Hessian Cultural Foundation . On the wooden parquet floor on the 10th floor of the traditional “Orbit House” in Southwark , London, he carved over 80 portraits of people connected to the building on 400 m² and related them to his own biography. Before that, he had researched the place that had housed a chapel and the India Office Library since the 18th century , until it was integrated into the British Library in 1982. He then printed the floor panels on paper, various materials or PVC film and displayed the prints freely hanging.

In 1998, don´t look back followed , an installation with woodcuts and prints in the former Camp King of the US Army in Oberursel , where Kilpper processed the 300 m² wooden parquet of the former basketball hall with time-critical motifs and then took prints. The building was used by the US secret service after 1945 for interrogation of captured National Socialists. Previously, the central prison camp of the Nazi air force was housed in the building complex , where shot down Allied pilots were also interrogated.

In 2009 he subjected another historically charged place to this floor cutting : In the 800 m² PVC floor of the canteen of the former Ministry for State Security of the GDR in Berlin's Normannenstrasse, he subjectively cut the history of this under the title “From State of Control” an institution built on state surveillance and repression, including numerous portraits.

To the exhibition Etna Carrara. Villa Romana Prize 2011/2012 he hung a 15 × 4 meter banner on the facade of the Ludwig Forum in Aachen. For this he used an impression of his floor work in the Danish pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2011 “Pavilion for revolutionary freedom of speech” with 33 portraits of politicians.

In the 2010/2011 winter semester, Kilpper was a visiting professor at the State Art Academy in Nuremberg. The artist lives and works in Berlin.

Awards and grants

Exhibitions

  • 2012: ETNA CARRARA, The Villa Romana Prize Winners. Ludwig Forum Aachen
  • 2012: Pavilion for Revolutionary Free Speech Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
  • 2010: New Frankfurt Internationals: Stories and Stages , Museum for Modern Art (MMK), Frankfurt am Main

Works in museums

literature

  • Coldwell, Paul. (2012). Matrix, Meaning and the Specificity of Site: The Floor-cuts of Thomas Kilpper , in Print Quarterly. December, XXIX (4). London: Print Quarterly Publications. ISSN 0265-8305.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frieze Magazine No. 52, May 2000
  2. ↑ Hans Pietsch Gautier Deblonde: Wood cutter as squatter ( Memento from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). In: art - Das Kunstmagazin, issue 12/2000, pp. 58–65
  3. ↑ MMK Frankfurt am Main | Museum of Modern Art: Exhibition details ::: MMK Frankfurt am Main. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved June 29, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / mmk-frankfurt.de  
  4. ^ Tate Gallery - Works in the Collection
personal data
SURNAME Kilpper, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German wood cutter and installation artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart