Kiki Kogelnik, Inner Life

Kiki Kogelnik (1935-1997) worked in the USA for almost four decades, for a long time on a par with Pop Art artists such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. But her work has long been overlooked. Kogelnik, who lived and worked in Vienna and New York, explored themes of politics, social criticism, the space age and the human body in her sometimes colorful paintings, sculptures, collages and installations. She also experimented with new materials available at the time, such as vinyl. Together with the Kiki Kogelnik Foundation, Kunsthall Stavanger is now organizing the comprehensive survey exhibition Inner Life, which focuses primarily on her sculptural work. The show and the richly illustrated catalog include not only some works that have not been shown since the 1960s, but also the actions and happenings of this influential artist.