30 September – 29 October 2006 Pump House Gallery is delighted to invite you to the private view of: PIGISBACK Thomas Kilpper Friday 29 September : 6.30 – 9.00pm (an organic barbeque will be served) Exhibition Dates: 30 September – 29 October 2006 Pump House Gallery is delighted to be collaborating with German artist Thomas … Continue reading Pigisback | London
How many pints does an elephant need to forget | Moss/Oslo
September -October 2006 Endre Aalrust and Thomas Kilpper commissioned by and exhibited at momentum, festival for contemporary art, moss nearby oslo, norway september-october 2006 “The work that Endre Aalrust and Thomas Kilpper have made for Momentum … verges on satire. The artists have appropriated the elephant logo of the paper factory that borders the Moss … Continue reading How many pints does an elephant need to forget | Moss/Oslo
From our cold hands @ VTO Gallery London
January 22– February 20, 2005 Drawings and other paperwork VTO Gallery – 96 Teesdale Street – London E2 6PU Curated by Thomas Kilpper in collaboration with Patrick HeideOpening: January 21, 2005 from 6-10 pm Lucie Beppler, Bernadette Corporation, Michael Beutler, Heide Deigert, Emmanuel Depoorter, Thomas Erdelmeier, Jeremy Glogan, Alex Hamilton, Thomas Kilpper, Dirk Krecker, Janne … Continue reading From our cold hands @ VTO Gallery London
Agenda 2010 | Café Moskau, Berlin
February 05 – March 13, 2005 FLEISCH | Showroom Michael Dreher + Thomas Kilpper AGENDA 2010 Café Moscow | Karl-Marx-Allee 34 | 10178 Berlin-Mitte OPENING: Friday, 04.02.05 – 20.00 o’clock Duration of exhibition: 05.02.05 – 13.03.05 [24h/7d] The two artists Michael Dreher (Frankfurt/Main) and Thomas Kilpper (Berlin) have developed their installation Agenda 2010 for the … Continue reading Agenda 2010 | Café Moskau, Berlin
Bicycle shop @ wildwechsel Frankfurt/M
November 5 – 25, 2005 Exhibition: Thomas Kilpper in the gallery Wildwechsel http://www.wolfstaedter.de/ Rotlintstr. 98, 60389 Frankfurt, Germany Phone 069-738416 bicycle shop Vernissage: 4 November 2005 7pm Exhibition: 5 November – 25 November 2005 Opening hours: Wed. Thu. Fr. 4 – 7 pm Thomas Kilpper, who lives in Berlin, chooses the most difficult of all … Continue reading Bicycle shop @ wildwechsel Frankfurt/M
Ulrike Meinhof @ Meerrettich Berlin
March 31- May 05, 2004 Press release: thomas kilpper in the gallery meerrettich in the pavilion at the volksbühne rosa-luxemburg-platz, berlin contact: 030 28879710 – email: info AT meerrettich.net ulrike meinhof – exhibition from 31.03. to 09.05.04 at the pavillon am rosa-luxemburg-platz, thomas kilpper opens his exhibition with the sculpture of a larger-than-life head: ulrike … Continue reading Ulrike Meinhof @ Meerrettich Berlin
Castors to Halfpipes | Projekt für Ahaus | 2004/05
project outlineto the Sculpture Biennale Münsterland 2005 In cooperation with interested local initiatives (skater, youth centre, citizens’ initiative for environmental protection, vocational orientation centre…) I would like to present a usable sculpture with young people from Ahaus and the surrounding area in a two- to three-week workshop as part of the Skulptur-Biennale Münsterland 2005. 1/2 … Continue reading Castors to Halfpipes | Projekt für Ahaus | 2004/05
fuck your landlord | london | 2003
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 horse | 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! | frankfurt/main | 2002
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
projects | london | 2002/03
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
drowning hercules | london | 2001
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 | london | 2000
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
happy together | frankfurt-preungesheim | 1998-2000
Project in Frankfurt-Preungesheim jail, 1998-2000 Not approved by the Justice Department. Tour
don’t look back | camp king oberursel | 1998/2002
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