Ralf Sander

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Ralf Sander

Ralf Sander (* 1963 in Berlin ) is a German sculptor and installation artist . With his installations he deals with architecture , transformation and communication . His complex work has been presented in exhibitions around the world since the mid-1990s.

Life

Saving machine

Ralf Sander is the son of a psychoanalyst and an engineer in the vehicle industry. After graduating from high school and the death of his stepfather, Klaus Komoll , who left him a small sailing ship, he circled the world from 1988 to 1990 before turning to art. The contact with the art of the Pacific Islands and Papua New Guinea influenced his artistic development. In 1992 he completed his studies as a master class student at the Berlin University of the Arts . A scholarship from the DAAD enabled Sander to travel to China and Japan to study Asian art and philosophy . 1992 co-founded the Töpchin studio community together with Azade Köker , Harald Müller, Yoshimi Hashimoto, Andreas Theurer and other visual artists. In 2004 Ralf Sander became a visiting professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw .

The annual aquamediale exhibition was initiated and curated by him and Sieghard Auer in 2005 . Ralf Sander has also taught as a professor of sculpture at Seoul National University and as a reader (associate professor) at the University of Ulster in Belfast , Northern Ireland .

Work (selection)

World saving machine

For almost all of his early works, the human body is the subject and the basis for life-size wooden sculptures made from a single trunk of wood. Since the turn of the millennium , there has also been a turning point in Ralf Sander's works. He experimented with different media; including film, performance and photography. Sander is currently referring to social groups in his work and integrates - with reference to Joseph Beuys' term social sculpture - their participation in the work process (e.g. in Rolandtransfer Child's Play Child, learning is opening up). In 2008 he started the World Saving Machine cycle, a visionary project at the interface of art and science. Analogous to the deconstruction of the “great visions” (e.g. progress, reason, art) of modernity , his work now deals with the implications of a relativized concept of truth . His work currently focuses on weather manipulation , the conversion of solar energy to ice (both literally and metaphorically), and the use of renewable energies in art projects. Ralf Sander can be described as a pioneer of the Renewable Energy Sculpture movement. The World Saving Machine II converts carbon dioxide into oxygen . The project was developed in collaboration with KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) at Daedeok University and Seoul National University , Korea.

Sander's first work created for outdoor use was the monument to Martin Heinrich Klaproth , erected on June 25, 1996 on the campus of the Technical University of Berlin . His most famous sculpture is Mirage or Lady Bird Transformation in Pusan , Korea . He realized the sculpture Lady Bird Transformation for the Busan Cinema Center. The building was designed by Wolf D. Prix , Coop Himmelb (l) au, as the venue for the Busan International Film Festival , Asia's largest film festival. Lady Bird Transformation transforms itself from a striding woman into a seagull in flight depending on the angle from which she is viewed. The color of the sculpture changes permanently due to the huge LED screen on the underside of the roof. At 95 meters, the roof under which the Lady Bird Transformation sculpture stands is the largest, cantilevered roof in the world and a Guinness world record .

Working in public space

  • Klaproth stele (1996) - TU Berlin
  • Group exhibition ghost town-ghost town. Conversion art in Wünsdorf -Waldstadt 1997
  • Beuys (1996) - Robert Bosch Foundation , Stuttgart
  • St. Dominicus (1999) - St. Bonifaz, Mainz
  • Cube (2001)
  • Mensch ärgere Dich nicht (2003) - Lübben , Brandenburg
  • Childs Play (2005) - XII. Rohkunstbau Groß Leuthen
  • Rolandtransfer (2006) - in the Brandenburg district of Hohenstücke near Brandenburg
  • World Saving Machine (since 2008) - Crane Art Center, Philadelphia, USA, Kaist University
  • The Hidden Artist (2012) - Iksan, South Korea
  • Korean Energy (2011) - acquired by Seoul MoA, Korea
  • Lady Bird Transformation (Mirage, 2012) - Busan Film Center, South Korea
  • Belfast Seahorse (2013) - at Belfast Harbor

Awards

  • 1993 NaföG scholarship
  • 1994 DAAD scholarship for study trip to China and Japan
  • 1995 Winner of the Bosch Work Art award
  • 1997 Panta rhei
  • 2002 Art Prize, Spectral
  • 2007 Artist in Residence Sculpture Center Oronsko (Centrum Rzezby Oronsko), Poland
  • Work

  • Monument to Martin Heinrich Klaproth

  • Joseph Beuys

  • St. Dominicus

  • World Saving Machine III

Web links

Commons : Ralf Sander  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ aquamediale X
  2. ↑ Aquamediale archive since 2012. Retrieved on January 10, 2015 .
  3. ↑ a b VOLUME 211, 2011, EXHIBITIONS: MARQUARDT BEI POTSDAM, p. 314 ( Memento from April 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) In: kunstforum.de
  4. ^ Catalog ghost town-ghost town. Conversion art in Wünsdorf-Waldstadt 1997 Ed. Manfred Sieloff, Strauss Potsdam ISBN 978-3-929748-10-9
  5. ↑ Vol. 131, 1995 ( Memento from April 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) In: kunstforum.de
  6. ↑ Märkische Allgemeine, Potsdam, Brandenburg,: Simply hand over a feast for the eyes administration building / Art in construction: Man, don't get angry ANDREA MÜLLER. In: maerkischeallgemeine.de. Archived from the original on April 12, 2013 ; accessed on January 10, 2015 .
  7. ^ New Roland for Hohenstücke - City of Brandenburg an der Havel. In: stadt-brandenburg.de. July 28, 2009, accessed January 10, 2015 .
  8. ^ The Graphic Conscience: Global Warming at the Icebox - Curator Response to the Graphic Conscience. In: thegraphicconscience.blogspot.co.uk. February 26, 2004, accessed January 10, 2015 .
  9. ^ The Hidden Artist - Ulster Institutional Repository. In: eprints.ulster.ac.uk. September 15, 2012, accessed January 10, 2015 .
  10. ↑ OMA- SEOUL-NATIONAL-UNIVERSITY-MUSEUM-OF-ART. In: oma.eu. June 24, 2009, accessed January 10, 2015 .
  11. ↑ 'Lady-Bird-Transformation' sculpture installed at the Busan Cinema Center ( Memento from April 13, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) In: english.busan.go.kr
  12. ↑ Udo G. Cordes: Panta rhei. Kulturinitiative Prozess und Dialog Brandenburg-Berlin, 1995 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  13. ^ Center of Polish Sculpture. In: rzezba-oronsko.pl. Retrieved January 10, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Sander, Ralf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sander, Ralf Volker (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and installation artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin