Thomas Zipp
Planet Caravan. Is There Life After Death? A Futuristic World Fair

Thomas Zipp is considered one of the leading figures of a new generation of German artists. He has exhibited globally, but until now, his work has never been presented in a Belgian or Dutch public institution. His work spans diverse disciplines, converging in total installations in a baroque manner. He creates paintings, drawings, sculptures, objects, collages, and photos, and also writes texts and makes music. His work depicts his hyper-personal thought world, fueled by theoretical and philosophical concepts, utopian visions, bizarre life perspectives, visionary hallucinations, ...

In developing his visual language, Thomas Zipp appropriates styles and ideas from the past, which he updates experimentally. He is not interested in conventional history but interprets the most obscure aspects of our collective past. The romanticization of history and the misguided progressivism are critically questioned. He mainly focuses on the madness of human thinking. This madness is approached in as many ways as possible, expanding his eccentric and theatrical visual language.

His exhibition Planet Caravan? Is There Life after Death? A Futuristic World Fair has already been presented in different setups in Mannheim, Mülheim an der Ruhr, and London. The version at MDD is the last in the series. Each time, he seems to deny the existing museum spaces by building an exhibition that does not ‘fit’ into the given space. Daylight is eliminated to cast a strange light with his own light sculptures on the exhibited works. Although some works are reused, he rethinks the arrangement for each project, adding new works each time. The title Planet Caravan comes from a psychedelic song by the heavy metal group Black Sabbath.