Andrew Kötting is one of Britain's most intriguing artists, endowed with the visionary curiosity and hybrid creativity exemplified by Derek Jarman. His 25 year oeuvre to date has moved from early live-art inflected, often absurdist pieces, ripe with skewed mythologies, through darkly comic shorts teasing out the melancholy surrealism at the heart of contemporary Englishness to two resolutely independent features. Throughout, he has also written and performed, created for digital platforms and the gallery. His refusal to adopt conventional ideas of closure around artworks, underpinned by an outlaw intelligence and pranksterish wit, marks out his work as both energising and important. Oberhausen will present two programmes of his short work, from the early Keatonesque Klipperty Klopp (1984) through the riverside antics of Jaunt (1995) to the disturbing intensity of Invalids (2000).

2 May 2008

Contact: Carsten Spicher