Kinki
Texas

Biography Exhibitions

Presented on large-scale canvases and depicted in vibrant, almost lurid colours, Kinki Texas’s subjects may appear to have been quickly dashed off but have in fact been developed over a period of months. Their lengthy process of creation is only revealed on closer inspection, when the different stages of the picture’s evolution can gradually be traced.

While Kinki Texas has a particular theme and subject matter in mind when he begins working on his pictures, he also reacts to what happens during the painting process, with the result that the development of the images can take unexpected turns. He paints, sprays, writes, wipes and scrapes away until he reaches a state where any additional painterly touch would overload the image, but any missing one would make it seem unfinished. The heroic figures in “Kinki Texas Space”, this is what the artist calls his creative universe, which draws as much inspiration from the comic genre as it does from television’s History Channel, employing means of depiction borrowed from graffiti and trash culture as well as from centuries of history painting, their appearance ranges from slightly strange to truly bizarre; some of them have a warlike and at times rather frightening demeanour; they confront the viewer with loaded guns, pose in suits of armour with swords drawn or like Native Americans with headdresses, bows and arrows.

Biography

Kinki Texas was born 1969 in Bremen (D); 2005 Master‘s degree in cultural studies and philosophy at the University of Bremen. He lives and works in Bremen.

Exhibitions

Among the main solo shows we remember:

2022
Ultima Thule - hin und zurück, Galleria Alessandro Casciaro, Bolzano (I)

2020
Uncanny Valley, with Jub Mönster, Galerie Kramer, Bremen (D)
Video audio disco, Oxholm Gallery, Kopenhagen, (DK)
Heroes, Chase Contemporary, New York, USA

2019
T2, duo show with Francesco Tricarico, Fabbrica EOS Gallery, Milan (I)
Rodeorant empty, Galerie Anja Knoess, Cologne (D)

2017
Mental Shiloh Supper Club, Gallery Alessandro Casciaro, Bolzano (I)
The Early Kinki Texas Space, Kunstverein Friedberg (D)

2016
Battlestar Germania, Galerie Gerken, Berlin (D)

2015
24h Cinema, Oxholm Gallery, Copenhagen (DK)

2014
Beutekunst, Projektraum Knut Osper, Cologne (D)

2013
1000 Ponies are not enough, Gallery Goethe, Bolzano (I)

2012
Sad King Billy, Galerie Martina Kaiser, Cologne (D)

2010
Cannibale Grande, Galleria Bianca Maria Rizzi, Milan (I)
Anti-Anti-Kunst, Cuxhavener Kunstverein, Cuxhaven (D)

2008
Low, Low, Low Society, Gallery Goethe 2, Bolzano (I)
Texas Anno Zero, Il Torchio Galleria D’Arte, Milan (I)

2002
Kinki Texas, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt am Main (D)

He has also taken part in numerous goup exhibitions, icluding:

2023
What's new?, Gallery Alessandro Casciaro, Bolzano (I)

2021
Who's afraid of orange, pink and blue, Galerie Anja Knoess, Cologne (D)

2018
Untapped Basel, collection of Takashi Family
BLITZEIS II, Accrochage, Galerie Anja Knoess, Cologne (D)

2016
Arteforte, Forte superiore di Nago, Nago-Torbole (I)

2011
Highlights, Cuxhavener Kunstverein, Cuxhaven (D)

2010
Psycho Pompös, with M. Zupika, Gdansk City Gallery, Gdansk (PL)
32. Bremer Förderpreis für Bildende Kunst 2009, Städtischen Galerie, Bremen (D)

2009
6. Bremer Kunstfrühling, Gleishalle Güterbahnhof, Bremen (D)

2007
Deviant Art Festival Kunstfestival, Konsthallen Trollhättan, Trollhättan (S)

2006
Allarmi 2, Caserma De Cristoforis, Como (I)