Edmund Kuppel

Edmund Kuppel is one of the most important pioneers of media art in Germany. His extensive work focuses on the creative processes and technical conditions of photography, film, and video. At the heart of his media-critical work is the question of what is truly real in our perception and how we construct reality as truth. Through the self-representation of the means of representation, he shows us truth as illusion and fiction. Kuppel makes the artistic process itself the subject, without refraining from narrative forms.

From 1966 to 1970, Kuppel studied sculpture at the Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts and, at the same time, art history at the University of Karlsruhe from 1969 to 1972. In 1982, he led the German-French Experimental Film Workshop in Cap d'Ail. He received the Glockengasse Cologne Art Prize in 1987. From 1987 to 1988, he was a visiting professor of experimental photography at the Braunschweig University of Art. In 1997, he participated as a speaker at the international colloquium »L`art et le livre« in Grenoble. In 1999, he led a studio at the École des Beaux-Arts in Angers entitled “»Itinéraire«. In 2002, he took on a visiting professorship at the Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts. In 2016, he received the Käthe Kollwitz Prize. He lives and works in Paris and Karlsruhe.