Martin Kippenberger – METRO-Net queer friendship and love

friendship and love

antipathy and otherwise

Looking at them in parallel brings out their similarities and differences and reveals that to some extent they serve to complement one another: for the one

His photographs have been published and written about in The New York Times

Equalising the exotic and the banal

Martin Kippenberger – METRO-Net queer friendship and loveIn the early 1990s, Martin Kippenberger developed the idea of a global underground network: METRO Net. Although it is one of the artists most fascinating projects, his premature death in 1997 meant that it could only be implemented in rudimentary form. In 1993, a metro entrance was built on the Greek island of Syros, followed by two more: one in 1995 in Dawson City in Canada and the other in 1997 on the new Leipzig exhibition grounds. This created a