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His career can be traced from 1979 when he lived in cold war Berlin and mounted such events as Pisscrutch Action, Spying on your Neighbour. He has invented his own jive talk with which he berates uncomprehending indiginous peoples the world over, usually as a prelude to a good fight in a wild bar. In the late 1980s he started inventing fictional artists whose 'real' artworks were a pastiche both on contemporary art and society. He is a founder member of The Lord Jim Lodge whose motto is 'Nobody Helps Anybody'. His signature artwork is the crooked red streetlamp beloved by the cartoon drunk and of which the German artist and critic Jutta Koether has written, "If you set out to 'under stand' Kippenberger, which is actually impossible, you must become sufficiently involved with him not to be either the streetlamp or the drunk. |
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His career can be traced from 1979 when he lived in cold war Berlin and mounted such events as Pisscrutch Action, Spying on your Neighbour. He has invented his own jive talk with which he berates uncomprehending indiginous peoples the world over, usually as a prelude to a good fight in a wild bar. In the late 1980s he started inventing fictional artists whose 'real' artworks were a pastiche both on contemporary art and society. He is a founder member of The Lord Jim Lodge whose motto is 'Nobody Helps Anybody'. His signature artwork is the crooked red streetlamp beloved by the cartoon drunk and of which the German artist and critic Jutta Koether has written, "If you set out to 'under stand' Kippenberger, which is actually impossible, you must become sufficiently involved with him not to be either the streetlamp or the drunk. |
