About Klaus Killisch
(*1959 Wurzen, DE) Klaus Killisch studied painting at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee. His neo-expressive style and his motifs inspired by punk, rock and pop were considered subversive during the GDR era. His style of breaking up and overlapping categories is characteristic of his work. Killisch repeatedly succeeds in presenting complicated themes in painting in an amusingly effortless way. He was invited to the Venice Biennale in 1990 and has had many international exhibitions since then.
Fun fact
One of his most important works is on display in the new permanent exhibition “A Collection for the 21st Century” at the Museum Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart hanging right opposite of one by Martin Kippenberger, although the hanging is not following alphabetical order.