For his 50th birthday in 2004 the Deichtorhallen will exhibit the so far largest overall review of the works of the renowned German/Czechoslovakian artist. With new and up to now unknown groups of work, among them his complete and never shown photographic Œuvre and the leopard-, children- and whip-paintings of the last years, the exhibition shows the ‚invention machine’ Dokoupil as one of the most exciting and in the younger scene one of the most influential contemporary artists, - as the author of one of the most essential complete works of the last 25 years.
The exhibition includes 200 paintings, photos, drawings and sculptures of the „ Neue Wilde“ (new wild) of the early 80th until now. Especially for the Deichtorhallen the artist developed a diverse one-man-museum with 29 seperate rooms and 29 different styles.
Catalogue published at DuMont-Verlag, Cologne in German/English. Content: 304 pages. Contributors: Ed. Robert Fleck and Wilfried Dickhoff, Authors: Robert Fleck, Thomas Hoppe, Josefina Ayerza and Slavoj Zizek
Travel Venues: National Galerie Prag in the beginning of 2006
Biography:
Born June 3, 1954 in Krnov (Bruntal), Czechoslovakia
1968 Escaped with his parents to the Federal Republic of Germany
1976–1978 Studies of Visual Arts in Cologne, Frankfurt and New York (Cooper Union with Hans Haacke)
1979 studied Mathematics in Cologne, shared his studio with Hans Peter Adamski, Peter Bömmels and Walter Dahn
1980 –1983 lives and works in Cologne.
1983 –1984 Guest professorship at the art academy Düsseldorf.
1989 Guest professorship at the Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid.
Lives and works in Madrid, Berlin, Prague and Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
