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| Opening: Thursday, May 24 from 7pm Exhibition: May 25 to June 24, 2007 open: Thu/Fr 5pm to 10pm, Sa/Sun 2pm to 6pm Kunstraum Düsseldorf Himmelgeister Straße 107E, Eingang Ulenbergstraße 40200 Düsseldorf Tel. 0049-(0)211-8924193 oder | or 0049-(0)211-330237 www.duesseldorf.de/kunstraum Bahn | Tram: 706, 723 Bus: 827, 835, 836 supported by Lampei v.d. Sande GbR, Entrümpelungen |
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| Berlin based artist Thomas Kilpper has lived in Dusseldorf from 1979 to 1992. 1979 he came from Nurnberg to the Dusseldorf academy into the class of Alfonso Hueppi. With this change he hoped to work in a more open minded artistic climate. But the then political realities: new nuclear powerstations, military coup in Turkey, Apartheid… and particularly the acute danger of a nuclear war in Europe made Kilpper to focus more and more to the direct political engagement and resistance. For his exhibition 'from the fat corner to the revolution' in the Dusseldorf Kunstraum he realized a 300sqm installation, commemorating and recuring the developments of these years. He takes material, that he held in his hands for more than eight years when he made his livings with clearing out and removals. Now Kilpper has used hundreds of old furnitures, deconstructed, rebuilt, beaten apart, nailed together and than reassembled to a metaphorical maze-like installation. Here speaks as well sublimated fury against the existing conditions as the realization of an aesthetical change, here speaks a grumpy-ironical outline of social interior design as anti-IKEA. |
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