Louisiana Museum of Modern Art to Present Martin Kippenberger Retrospective Focusing on Self-Staging
The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is presenting an exhibition of works by German artist Martin Kippenberger (1953-1997). The show centers on recurring motifs in his sculptures, paintings, installations and videos, with the artist himself as the central figure. It explores whether his narcissistic self-cultivation functions as a rejection of the self and situates his macho self-staging against the feminist art practices of the period. The exhibition receives support from Det Obelske Familiefond.
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The presentation indicates museums are reassessing Kippenberger's legacy by separating his persona from his output. Curators and collectors gain a framework for evaluating self-referential strategies that remain influential in identity-based practices today. The juxtaposition with contemporaneous feminist critiques provides a lens for interpreting 1990s art market dynamics around authorship and provocation.
- Artists: Martin Kippenberger
- Museums: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
- Locations: Humlebæk
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