Fuck your Landlord Field Work in the Streets of London, 2003 knowing that the lease expires and my landlord is going to rise the rent (from £700 to £900) I move with a minimal house on wheels through the streets: the drastic rising rents force to unorthodox measures. a (failed) field-test to survive in the … Continue reading fuck your landlord | london | 2003 →

Al Hissan – The Jenin HorseArt in Public Space Under Conditions of Occupation By invitation of the Goethe Institute Ramallah, I led a several week long workshop with Palestinian youths in Jenin in the summer 2003. Together we built a 5 meter tall horse out of scrounged metal taken from destroyed houses and cars. The … Continue reading al hissan – the jenin horse | 2003 →

he, who has the money, has the power! Forum of the Sparkasse 1882, Frankfurt 2002 I was invited to do a show in September 2002 at the Frankfurter Sparkasse (Savings Bank). For more than 120 years bees served the bank as their logo. I planned to place a bee-hive in the middle of the exhibition-space … Continue reading he, who has the money, has the power! | frankfurt/main | 2002 →

making mice and rats artists & artlab II Queen Mary College, Turner Building Whitechapel Campus, London 2002 artlab II and making mice and rats artists (in collaboration with the artist Alex Hamilton) was the attempt to rededicate the empty microbiological research laboratory (Turner Building) of the Queen Mary University in London to an experimental art … Continue reading projects | london | 2002/03 →

Thomas Kilpper Drowning Hercules 14 – 30 September 2001 Private View: 13 September 18:00 – 21:00 Introduction by David Thorp (Curator of Contemporary Art Projects, The Henry Moore Foundation) Opening Hours: Tue – Sun 12:00 – 18:00 Riddell House, Basement – St. Thomas’ Hospital Lambeth Palace Road, London SE1 German artist, Thomas Kilpper, has been … Continue reading drowning hercules | london | 2001 →

The Ring Woodcut Project 1999-2000 Orbit-House, 197 Blackfriars Road, London Over a period of 12 months The Ring, a 400 sqm woodcut in the parquet flooring on the 10th floor of an empty office bloc in the centre of London, came into being. In the building the Oriental Collection of the British Libray was located … Continue reading the ring | london | 2000 →

Project in Frankfurt-Preungesheim jail, 1998-2000 Not approved by the Justice Department. Tour

Planning don’t look backThomas Kilpper was confronted with a vast space and an enormous part of history: Camp King, in the vicinity of Frankfurt/Main, was used after 1945 by the US secret service for interrogations of significant Nazi militaries. Here it was decided who would go to court and who would be integrated into American … Continue reading don’t look back | camp king oberursel | 1998/2002 →

generally, artists produce pictures. with the installation backstube, the possibility for the production of explosives is created. in a hut assembled from used wood panels, there are all the components necessary to act as a bomber. fire extinguishers and gas bottles as metal containers, various chemicals for the production of explosives, tools, electronic parts, alarm … Continue reading bakehouse | 1997 – 2004 →

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