MOMAS

Martin Kippenberger proudly presents: MOMAS – Museum of Modern Art Syros! Without doubt it was Martin Kippenberger who had the best ideas about how a museum should be furnished and planned. The small reprint marking the second exhibition of the Museum of Modern Art Syros was originally designed in 1994 by Lukas Baumewerd in a small edition and printed on one of the first inkjet printers. The master himself then distributed the first twenty copies on the occasion of the opening of Ulrich Strothjohann’s exhibition. The small new museum building on the Greek island of Syros – uniquely and magnificently situated – had been spotted years earlier by Martin Kippenberger on the approach to landing and was then explored together with Michel Würthle. It quickly became clear that the unfinished slaughterhouse made an altogether ideal ensemble. In no time the circle of friends set about agreeing on exhibitions, surveying the site and drawing up plans – not without being spurred on and given commissions by Kippenberger again and again. Punctually for the openings, travel parties from Köln would then mostly arrive on Syros in order to walk through the summer exhibition together with the director, Martin Kippenberger. This is how the exhibitions of Hubert Kiecol, Ulrich Strothjohann, Christopher Wool and Cosima von Bonin came about. The reprint of the booklet, first produced in twenty and later expanded to one hundred copies, follows the original edition entirely in its design and presentation, but unlike the original it has now been printed by offset.