'''Kai Pfeiffer''' ({{IPA|de|ˈpfaɪfɐ|lang}}; born 1975, Berlin)<ref>[http://www.avant-verlag.de/artist/kai_pfeiffer Kai Pfeiffer] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208174222/http://www.avant-verlag.de/artist/kai_pfeiffer |date=2015-12-08 }}, Avant-Verlag.de</ref> is a German visual artist, graphic novelist 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''.<ref>[https://www.lambiek.net/artists/p/pfeiffer_kai.htm Kai Pfeiffer], Lambiek</ref><ref>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.</ref>
From 2011 onward, Pfeiffer maintains an intimate conjunction with the Belgian visual artist Dominique Goblet. Together they drew ''Plus si entente'' (2014).<ref>Christian Rosset, ''Éclaircies sur le terrain vague'' (Paris 2015), 259-262.</ref> Pfeiffer wrote and drew a graphic documentary essay entitled ''Radioaktive forever'' which was added to the Japanese anthology ''No Nukes 2012'', edited by Ryuichi Sakamoto.
In the autumn of 2012 Pfeiffer was guest teacher at the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hbksaar.de/personen/lehrende0/ehemalige-gastprofessur/kai-pfeiffer/ |title=Kai Pfeiffer - Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar |publisher=Hbksaar.de |date= |accessdate=2016-12-29}}</ref>
In September 2015 an exposition of drawings from the latest book ''Plus si entente'' by himself the Belgian visual artist Dominique Goblet at the Nabokov Museum in St. Petersburg was initially censored and shortly after dismantled by order of the University of St. Petersburg.<ref name="Naylor 2015">{{cite web | last=Naylor | first=Aliide | title=St. Petersburg Exhibition Censored and Closed | website=The Moscow Times | date=2015-10-12 | url=https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/st-petersburg-exhibition-censored-and-closed-50223 | accessdate=2016-12-29}}</ref>
==Bibliography== * 2000 ''Opérations Esthétiques'' (Le Dernier Cri). (graphic novel) * 2000 ''Hôpital Brut No. 5/6'' (collective publication) (Le Dernier Cri). (contribution) {{oclc|762156749}} * 2003 ''Plaque 01. Magazin für Wort und Bild'' (Avant Verlag, {{ISBN|978-3-980772532}}). (magazine) * 2014 ''Plus si entente'' (co-auteur Dominique Goblet) (Actes Sud BD, {{ISBN|978-2-330-03051-3}}). (graphic novel) * 2015 ''Glücklich wie Blei im Getreide: Nacherzählungen'' (co-author Clemens J. Setz) (Suhrkamp, {{ISBN|9783518465875}})
'''Monogatari (German language)''' * 2001 ''Alltagsspionage'' * 2002 ''Monogatari 6x6 Pinups'' * 2003 ''Monogatari Monster'' * 2004 ''Comicreportagen aus Basel''
==References== {{Reflist}}
==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. {{ISBN|978-0615789385}} * Christian Rosset, ''Éclaircies sur le terrain vague'' (Paris, 2015), 259–262.
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