09/28/2026
The Kiki Kogelnik Foundation is delighted to announce the acquisition of Kiki Kogelnik’s “Siempre Por Tio”, 1964, by the Freunde der Nationalgalerie for the collection of the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin.
Kogelnik’s painting is included in the section called “Freeing the Body" as part of its current collection based exhibition “Extreme Tension. Art between Politics and Society 1945 -2000”, which explores central artistic and societal themes from the twentieth century, including realism and abstraction, politics and society, everyday life and pop culture, feminism and the nature of ecology.
"Siempre Por Tio" is part of a group of works where Kogelnik began to address the alterations or modifications that the human body would have to undergo to exist in outer space which reference the robot and the cyborg. In 1964, she wrote to Manuel Ulloa Elías, whose silhouette dominates the painting’s composition: “To your heart I would be most tender and your beautiful brown liver I would caress." These organs appear to be in process of being removed from the newly divided body while key joints - elbows, arm sockets, hips and knees - are replaced with mechanical nuts and bolts; the letter “K”, located near the heart, claims ownership.
Kiki Kogelnik, Siempre Por Tio, 1964, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 183.2 x 137.2 cm (72 1/8 x 54 inches). © 1964 Kiki Kogelnik Foundation. All rights reserved.
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