Seditiously garish paintings watercolors animated films absurd journals and extensive
installations-all of these are only a small part of the practice of the young artist duo Mehmet
& Kazim. Initially active in the graffiti and Hip Hop scene both of them studied with Markus
Oehlen at the Academy in Munich. Kissing Cousins is both an elaborately designed artist book
and a detailed monograph on their work at the same time. Supplemented by a conversation with
Florian Matzner their pictorial strategies are shown very directly-subtly oriented toward art
history which is then promptly thrown out the window again.
