Lecture Series Fine Arts – Thomas Kilpper
Natascha Sadr Haghighian in conversation with Thomas Kilpper
Introduction: Annett Reckert
In co-operation with the Kunsthalle Bremen
In a critical examination of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Thomas Kilpper has developed the expansive installation ‘Woodcut Maelstrom’, which can be seen at the Kunsthalle until March, 9th 2025.
Thomas Kilpper, born in Stuttgart, lives and works in Berlin. He studied painting and sculpture in Nuremberg, Düsseldorf and Frankfurt and graduated from the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main in 1998 as a master student of Professor Georg Herold. In his artistic work, Kilpper takes a critical look at German history and the present and examines the social contradictions of our societies. He has been running the independent gallery space after the butcher in Berlin since 2006. From 2014 to 2020, Thomas Kilpper was a professor of fine arts specialising in printmaking at the University of Bergen, Norway. Important projects in recent years include A Lighthouse for Lampedusa!, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Brussels BOZAR, (2016), SPEECH MATTERS, Pavilion for Revolutionary Free Speech, at the Danish Pavilion of the 54th Venice Biennale (2011), State of Control, at the former Ministry for State Security of the GDR and Neuer Berliner Kunstverein – n.b.k., Berlin (2009).
Important information
Information on the exhibition can be found on the website of the Kunsthalle Bremen.
Contributors
- Thomas Kilpper
