Kiki Kogelnik: now is the time

Abstract

"First extensive monograph on Kiki Kogelnik, a real must-have about one of the most important Austrian born female Pop Art artists. Kiki Kogelnik (1935-1997) is one of the most important Austrian born artists of the 20th century, who lived and worked on an international level. She is considered the only Austrian protagonist of Pop Art, although her art goes far beyond this categorization. Kogelnik's playful, colorful, and highly political work ranges from paintings, drawings, ceramics and installations to performative practices, and has an astonishing topicality in terms of its subject matter. Already in the early 1960s, she addressed topics such as gender equality, medical ethics, the digital era or a sustainable lifestyle in her art -- questions that are highly present in today's daily discourses"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents

The exhibition at Galerie St. Stephan: the Viennese debut -- Kiki Kogelnik in New York: pop and new realities -- Now is the time: on the concept of the present in the work of Kiki Kogelnik / Lisa Ortner-Kreil -- Space art, robots, and the hybrid body -- Kiki Kogelnik: robots in love / Marie Laurberg and Birgitte Thorsen Vilslev -- Masquerades: representations of the self -- A walking work of art: thoughts on the influences and impulses from fashion in the work of Kiki Kogelnik / Cathérine Hug -- Being and pretending: Kogelnik's portraits of women from the 1970s -- The day the world turned dayglo / Mai-Thu Perret -- Big city freedoms: ceramics and animal motifs -- On the edge of destruction: life and death in the art of Kiki Kogelnik / Flavia Frigeri -- Into space, through time: art, death, and life -- A letter to Kiki Kogelnik / Sylvie Fleury.