Kiepenkerl

stainless steel
71 x 26 x 37 inches 
180.3 x 66 x 94 cm 
© Jeff Koons
Edition of 3 plus AP
1987


Kiepenkerl

Details

Kiepenkerl

stainless steel
71 x 26 x 37 inches 
180.3 x 66 x 94 cm 
© Jeff Koons
Edition of 3 plus AP
1987

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EXHIBITED: 

Jeff Koons: Lost in America. Qatar Museums Al Riwaq Gallery, Doha, Qatar [November 21, 2021 - March 31, 2022] (Edition 1)

Appearance Stripped Bare: Desire and the Object in the Work of Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Koons, Even. Museo Jumex, Mexico City [May 19 - September 29, 2019] (Edition 1)

Jeff Koons: Now. Newport Street Gallery, London, England [May 18 - October 16, 2016] (Edition 2)

Jeff Koons: A Retrospective. Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain [June 9 - September 27, 2015] (Edition 1)

Jeff Koons: A Retrospective. The Centre Pompidou, Paris, France [November 26, 2014 - April 27, 2015] (Edition 1)

Jeff Koons: A Retrospective. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York [June 27 - October 19, 2014] (Edition 2)

Jeff Koons: The Sculptor. Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Frankfurt, Germany [June 20 - September 23, 2012]

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection. American Contemporary, Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC

Jeff Koons. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois [May 31 – September 21, 2008]

Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist’s Eye. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois [February 12 – June 5, 2005]

Sculpture. Anthony D’Offay Gallery, London, England [December 6, 1994 - February 14, 1995]

Jeff Koons: A Survey 1981-1994. Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, England [June 11 - July 30, 1994]

Jeff Koons: Retrospective. Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark [January 22 – February 28, 1993]

Jeff Koons: Retrospective. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota [July 10 - October 3, 1993]

Jeff Koons: Retrospective. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California [December 10, 1992 - February 7, 1993]

Sculpture Projects Münster (curated by Kasper Konig). Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Münster, Germany [Summer 1987]

LITERATURE: 

Dan Cameron, "NY Art Now: The Saatchi Collection," exh. cat. (Milan: Giancarlo Politi, 1987), p. 11

Michael Brenson, "Art: The Munster Sculpture Project," The New York Times, June 22, 1987, p. C13

Eleanor Heartney, "Sighted in Münster," Art in America 75, no. 9, (September 1987), (ill. p. 141)

Dan Cameron, "Documenta 8 Kassel," Flash Art Milan, October 1987, (ill. p. 66)

Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen,"Enzyklopädie der Skulptur," Kunstforum, October / November 1987, (color ill. p. 301)

Daniel Pinchbeck, “Jeff Koons,” Splash, April 1989, p. 69

The Last Decade-American Artists of the 80's, exh. cat. (New York: Tony Shafrazi Gallery, 1990), pp. 96, 137 (color ill. p. 97)

Daniel Templon, Fondation Daniel Templon, Musee Temporaire, La sculpture contemporaine apres 1970, exh. cat. (Paris: Fondation Daniel Templon, 1991), pp. 116, 197 (color ill. p. 117)

Jeff Koons, ed. Angelika Muthesius (Köln: Taschen, 1992), p. 22 (color ill. pp. 97-98)

The Jeff Koons Handbook (London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1992), pp. 9, 85, 86, 159 (color ill. p. 87)

Jens Erik Sorenson, John Peter Nilsson, and Peter Schjeldahl, Jeff Koons - Retrospectiv, eds. Jens Erik Sorenson and Anders Kold, exh. cat. (Aarhus: Aarhus Kunstmuseum, 1993), p. 113

Lars Morell, "Jeff Koons Interview: The Political Value of Art," Skala, no. 28 (1993), p. 41

Jeffrey Deitch, Jeff Koons: A Millennium Celebration - Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, 1979-1999, ed. Katerina Gregos. exh. cat. (Athens: Deste Foundation, 1999), pp. 13, 35

Rolf-E Breuer, Thomas Krens, David Sylvester, and Robert Rosenblum, Jeff Koons Easyfun-Ethereal, eds. Lisa Dennison, Robert Rosenblum, Craig Houser, exh. cat. (Berlin and New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2000), p. 8

Eckhard Schneider and Allison Gingeras, Jeff Koons: Kunsthaus Bregenz, exh. cat. (Koln: Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2001), (ill. p. 16)

Eduardo Cicelyn, Mario Codognato, and Elena Guena, Jeff Koons: Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli, exh. cat. (Naples: Electa Napoli, 2003), p. 147

Friedrich Christian Flick Collection im Hamburger Bahnhof, eds. Eugen Blume and Peter-Klaus Schuster (Berlin: Hamburger Bahnhof, 2004), p. 223

Jeff Koons Retrospektiv, ed. by Marit Woltmann, exh. cat. (Oslo: Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, 2004). [Texts by Gunnar Kvaran and Arthur C. Danto; interview with Koons by Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist], p. 66

Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist's Eye, exh. cat., ed. Francesco Bonami, Julie Rodrigues Widhold and Tricia Van Eck (Chicago: D.A.P./MCA, Chicago, 2005), p. 93 (color ill. p. 92)

Calvin Tomkins, "The Turnaround Artist," The New Yorker, April 23, 2007, p. 67

Jeff Koons, ed. Francesco Bonami, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008), pp. 22-23, 50, 56, 99, 114 (color ill. p. 56, 57)

Judd Tully, "Artists' Most Wanted," Art + Auction, (November 2009), p. 189

Blitzen-Benz Bang - Daimler Art Collection: Mixed Media, Sculptures, Commissioned Works, exh. cat., ed. by Renate Wiehager (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2009), p. 314

Jean-Jacques Aillagon, Pierre Arizzoli-Clementel, Francois Pinault, Edouard Papet, Jean-Pierre Criqui, Elena Guena, Laurent Le Bon, Michel Houllebecq, Jeff Koons: Versailles, exh. cat. (Paris: Editions Xavier Barral, 2009), p. 116

Hans Ulrich Obrist and Scott Rothkopf, Jeff Koons: Hulk Elvis, eds. Stefan Ratibor and Rebecca Sternthal, exh. cat. (New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2009), pp. 14, 15 (color ill. p. 15)

Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2009), pp. 242, 243 (color ill. p. 239, 241, 247, 248)

Francesco Bonami, Dal Partenone Al Panettone (Milan: Mondadori Electa spa, 2010), (color ill. p. 148)

Brad Finger and Christiane Weidemann, 50 Contemporary Artists You Should Know (Munich: Prestel Verlag, 2011), p. 69

Holger Liebs, "Mr. Koons?" Monopol: Special Jeff Koons. Berlin: Juno Kunstverlag GmbH, 2012, p. 38

Sam Keller, Dorothea Vischer, Raphael Bouvier, and Gunther Vogt, Jeff Koons: Fondation Beyeler, exh. cat. (Otsfildern: Hatje Cantz publishers, 2012), pp. 23, 25, 31, 176, 183, 206 (color ill. p. 25)

Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Entretiens avec Norman Rosenthal (London: Flammarion, 2014), pp. 238, 231, 134, 136, 211 (color ill. p. 134)

Bernard Blistène, Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (New York and Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014), pp. 25, 27, 103, 107 (color ill. pp. 103, 107)

Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014), pp. 20, 21, 95, 99, 215, 247, 287 (color ill. pp. 95, 99)

Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: New Paintings and Sculpture, ed. Rebecca Sternthal, exh. cat. (New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2014), pp. 11, 12

Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal (London: Thames & Hudson, 2014), pp. 128, 131, 134, 136, 211 (color ill. p. 134)

The Broad Collection, ed. Joanne Heyler with Ed Schad and Chelsea Beck (Los Angeles: The Broad, Delmonico Books an imprint of Prestel Publishing, 2015), pp. 89 (color ill. p. 97)

Julie Champion and Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov, Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective Le Portfolio de L'Exposition/The Retrospective The Portfolio of The Exhibition, ed. Julie Champion, exh. cat. (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2015), pp. 62, 63, 69, 154, 156 (color ill. p. 69)

Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: Retrospectiva, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (Bilbao: Guggenheim Bilbao, Companhia Empreendimento Sabara, 2015), pp. 22, 24, 99, 103, 227, 259, 299 (color ill. pp. 99, 103)

Phillip Tinari, Jeff Koons: Hulk Elvis, ed. Rebecca Sternthal, exh. cat. (Hong Kong: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., in association with Gagosian Gallery, 2015), pp. 5, 12

Michael Archer and Hugh Allen, Jeff Koons: Now, exh. cat. (London: Other Criteria, 2016), pp. 48, 101 (color ill. pp. 49, 101)

Glenn Adamson and Joshua G. Stein, "Imprints: Scale and the Maker's Trace," in Terra Foundation Essays: Scale, exh. cat. (Chicago/Paris: Terra Foundation for American Art, Sprint 2017), p. 44

Massimiliano Gioni, Appearance Stripped Bare, Desire and the Object in the Work of Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Koons, Even, exh. cat. (London: Phaidon, 2019), (color ill. p. 236)

David Hopkins, DARK TOYS, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021), p. 153

Jeff Koons. Lost in America, exh. cat., ed. Massimiliano Gioni (Milan: Skira, 2021), p. 74 (color ill. p. 75)

Jeff Koons. Shine, exh. cat. (Venice: Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Marsilio Editori S.p.A., 2021), p. 174 (color ill. p. 175)

Bianca Brigitte Bonomi, "Jeff Koons in Qatar: The American Artist’s Lost in America Exhibition Is One Not To Be Missed…," Harper's Bazaar Arabia, March 25, 2022, online

Stéphane Aquin, Anne Reeve, Sandy Guttman, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection, (New York: D.A.P. DelMonico Books), 2022 (color ill. p. 309)