Martin Kippenberger – METRO-Net queer Equalising the exotic and the

Equalising the exotic and the banal

With electronic sound and light material

friendship and love

with all their changes

Martin Kippenberger – METRO-Net queer Equalising the exotic and theIn 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