Kiki Kogelnik - Buy or sell works

22 January 1935, Bleiburg (Austria) – 1 February 1997, Vienna (Austria)

Kiki Kogelnik is known for her work with unusual materials and is regarded as the Austrian pop art artist.

She studied in Vienna at the University for Applied Arts and at the Academy of Fine Arts. She was one of the circle of young avant-garde artists around Otto Mauer at the Galerie nächst St. Stephan that included Maria Lassnig, Arnulf Rainer, Wolfgang Hollegha, Markus Prachensky and Josef Mikl.

In 1961 Kogelnik moved to New York where she encountered abstract expressionism. She ended her abstract phase and turned to Pop Art. In New York she became part of the circle of artists around Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and Tom Wesselmann. Influenced and inspired by the rapid technological developments in space technology and travel, she produced many colourful, futuristic works during her space art phase. She began to make life-size templates of people that she transferred onto surfaces and later made into stand-alone, original works of art in vinyl or plastic. These Hangings remained the subject of her work for decades.

She also dealt critically with the image of womenin response to the women’s movement of the 1970s. She depicted masked women in exaggerated poses, closely resembling those in women’s magazines.
Her work became more sculptural starting in the mid-1970s, and she began to work in ceramic, glass and bronze.
Her mask-like glass Venetian Heads were created in the mid-1990s and are very well-known today. 

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