Death and Legacy
Kiki Kogelnik died of cancer on February 1, 1997 in Vienna. She is buried in Bleiburg, Austria. The Belvedere Museum in Vienna held a large retrospective of her work in the same year. In 1998 Kogelnik was posthumously awarded Austria’s highest medal in the arts, the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art. She was previously awarded, in 1995, the City of Vienna Prize for Visual Arts.
Since the artist’s death, the Kiki Kogelnik Foundation, a U.S. non-profit organization, (also known as the Kogelnik Foundation) was established, with offices in Vienna and New York. The foundation’s mission is to protect, document, research and perpetuate the creative legacy of Kiki Kogelnik.
As of 2009 the foundation continues to maintain and enlarge a comprehensive database of Kogelnik’s works for art-historical research, and will eventually create a Catalogue Raisonné.
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