Published in association with the first major survey exhibition of Kai Althoff’s work organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Kai Kein Respekt documents the most important aspects of his work over the past fifteen years. Full-color illustrations of Althoff’s drawings, watercolors, collages, paintings, photographs, performances, and installations present a comprehensive overview of his complex and varied oeuvre. Essays by the exhibition curator, Nicholas Baume; MCA Chicago curator Francesco Bonami; leading German cultural critics Diedrich Diederichsen and Olaf Karnik in addition to several texts by the artist provide a thoughtful and detailed account of Althoff’s work and its significance.

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Kai Althoff: Kei Kein Respekt (Kai No Respect) at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, May 26 – September 6, 2004

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition In search of Eulenkippstadt at Robert Prime Gallery, London, March 6 – 19 April, 1996.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

Fanal – a recondite word for lighthouse or torch, and a cognate in German and English – began as Kai Althoff’s solo step outside of his long running and in certain spheres abundantly cherished (and in certain spheres perfectly uncomprehended) duo with Stephan Abry. The first Fanal album is a primarily instrumental collection bolstered and upholstered with muscular synthesizer arpeggiations and martial drum machines. After Workshop’s intimacies, Fanal’s relative coldness made the project seem as distant and magisterial as the secluded castle pictured on the album cover (not to mention the sublimity of the castle’s manicured grounds).

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Produced, composed and arranged by Workshop. Featuring; Elvis, Kai Althoff, Matthias Köchling, Patrick Spitzner, Stefan Mohr, Stephan Abry. Engineer, Recorded By – Stefan Mohr

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

Kai Althoff creates installations, drawings, paintings, photographs, videos and collages; he is also a musician and performer. His fragmentary and enigmatic aesthetic, where the figurative sometimes tends towards a stylization bordering on abstraction, is inspired by subcultures, historical events, religious imagery and his own childhood.

This comprehensive publication is Althoff’s third monograph. It contains never before seen works in addition to images from every stage of the artist’s career, concentrating most heavily on work since 2002.