Make Your Own Life: Artists In and Out of Cologne
January 22nd 2007 22:17
Make Your Own Life takes a look at the mythic proportions and art historical significance of the alternative scene based in Cologne in the late 80s and early 90s. Long an important city for art and commerce in Germany, during these years Cologne fostered a group of artists that bucked the establishment to raise important questions of artistic identity and institutional critique. For artists like Martin Kippenberger, Jutta Koether, Albert Oehlen, and Cosima von Bonin, art became a place to carve out their own terms of participation within the social, political, and economic constraints of the art world, where they could make their own lives the basis of their work, as Kippenberger exhorted.
Where: Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, USA United States of America
Where: Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, USA United States of America
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