Kai Pfeiffer (; born 1975, Berlin) is a German visual artist,

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and author of graphic journalism.

Biography

Pfeiffer studied communications design at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee from 1998 to 2003. In 1999 Pfeiffer and a group of militant visual artists founded the collective ''Monogatari''. Starting in 2009 Pfeiffer teaches illustration and comics at the Kunsthochschule Kassel. Together with Johann Ulricht he edits the annual avant-garde comics' magazine ''Plaque''. From 2011 onward, Pfeiffer maintains an intimate conjunction with the Belgian visual artist

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. Together they drew ''Plus si entente'' (2014). Pfeiffer wrote and drew a graphic documentary essay entitled ''Radioaktive forever'' which was added to the Japanese anthology ''No Nukes 2012'', edited by

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. In the autumn of 2012 Pfeiffer was guest teacher at the

Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar The Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar or HBKsaar, (English: ''Saar College of Fine Arts'') is an art and design university in the German State of Saarland. The degree course offers a choice of different topics: Fine arts, communication desi ...

. In September 2015 an exposition of drawings from the latest book ''Plus si entente'' by himself the Belgian visual artist

at the Nabokov Museum in

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was initially censored and shortly after dismantled by order of the

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Bibliography

* 2000 ''Opérations Esthétiques'' ( Le Dernier Cri). (graphic novel) * 2000 ''Hôpital Brut No. 5/6'' (collective publication) (Le Dernier Cri). (contribution) * 2003 ''Plaque 01. Magazin für Wort und Bild'' (Avant Verlag, ). (magazine) * 2014 ''Plus si entente'' (co-auteur Dominique Goblet) (Actes Sud BD, ). (graphic novel) * 2015 ''Glücklich wie Blei im Getreide: Nacherzählungen'' (co-author Clemens J. Setz) (Suhrkamp, ) Monogatari (German language) * 2001 ''Alltagsspionage'' * 2002 ''Monogatari 6x6 Pinups'' * 2003 ''Monogatari Monster'' * 2004 ''Comicreportagen aus Basel''

References

Sources

* Shannon O'Leary and Joan Reilly eds., ''The big feminist but: comics about women, men and the ifs, ands & buts of feminism'' (Cupertino 2013), 195. * Christian Rosset, ''Éclaircies sur le terrain vague'' (Paris, 2015), 259–262. {{DEFAULTSORT:Pfeiffer, Kai 1975 births German comics artists German comics writers Living people