Thomas Zipp31.08. - 21.10.2012
Oldenburger Kunstverein
Thomas Zipp, *1966 in Heppenheim, Germany, lives and works in Berlin, Germany
Photo: © Kreier
The works of the Berlin-based artist are mostly expansive installations that challenge the viewer by deconstructing established knowledge and value systems.
Alongside this is the fundamental questioning of the “white cube” as a common exhibition practice as well as the seemingly irreverent modification of art historical topoi. At the Oldenburger Kunstverein, Picasso’s “Guernica” documents one such intervention by Thomas Zipp.
The famous painting from 1937 addresses the horrors of the Spanish Civil War and has been deeply anchored in the collective memory ever since. Thomas Zipp questions the painting’s inherent value systems such as good and evil, truth and falsehood, thus inviting us to question ourselves. In 2005, it was the Oldenburger Kunstverein where Zipp organized his first institutional solo exhibition with “Dirty Tree Black Pills”. While back then it was the bomb-like capsules with their monumental dimensions that the artist arranged in a post-apocalyptic space, today it is “Guernica”, whose coordinates of annihilation are set anew by Zipp.
Thomas Zipp, born in 1966, studied under Thomas Bayrle at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main and at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. In 2005/06, he taught as a visiting professor at the University of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe. Since 2008, Zipp has been Professor of Painting and Multimedia at the Berlin University of the Arts.
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