Alejandra Ruddoff

Alejandra Ruddoff

Alejandra Ruddoff (born July 13, 1960 in Santiago de Chile ) is a Chilean sculptor .

biography

Ruddoff graduated from the University of Chile with a degree in sculpture in 1985 . In 1993 she received a postgraduate diploma at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , where she studied with a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Ruddoff received the 1st prize of the Chilean Ministry of Public Buildings in 2000. Her work Homage to the Wind - which "has the germinating lightness of the poem and at the same time the purity of the oldest monuments" (Raúl Zurita, writer) - placed on the Panamericana . Her sculptural works were u. a. 2003 presented in a solo exhibition in the National Museum of Fine Arts in Santiago de Chile and in the Tai Miao Temple of the Forbidden City in Beijing . Ruddoff has been teaching at art academies since 2000 .

The artist developed large-format, site-specific projects for public spaces. These include the work Peace, Friendship and Time's Space (2001), which was produced as part of the fifth International Sculpture Symposium in Changchun and installed in the sculpture park there, as well as the sculpture Nach Vorn (1997), which has been in Potsdam since 2002 . During a stay at the Volkswagen Design Center Potsdam in 2006, Ruddoff developed a model for the further development of the latter. On behalf of the DAAD, she completed the work Nach Vorn II in 2010 , which is set up in front of the DAAD's headquarters on Kennedyallee in Bonn . Since 2009 she has been living as a freelance artist in Berlin.

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Ruddoff's main interest is the relationships between time , space and matter and the laws of movement . The energy source of nature and the driving force of the engineered world characterize her works. The oeuvre is characterized by an aesthetic, abstract and yet sensual imagery that combines natural and mechanical forms.

gallery

Alejandra Ruddoff, 2004, Grenzsignale II, 42 × 39 × 19 cm, aluminum

Alejandra Ruddoff, 2009, Transcription of a Void, 13 × 210 × 210 cm, wood: Alerce and Laurel

Alejandra Ruddoff, 2010, Forward II 360 × 240 × 240 cm aluminum

Alejandra Ruddoff, 2011, Forest I 50 × 50 cm aluminum engraving

Alejandra Ruddoff, 2011, In Motion I, 30 × 20 cm, aluminum engraving

Alejandra Ruddoff, 2001, Constellation in gray, 190 × 410 × 190 cm, painted iron

Alejandra Ruddoff, 2003, Original inscription, 246 × 230 × 30 cm, finger-jaw

Alejandra Ruddoff, 2003, Routes in Motion, 300 × 230 × 130 cm, finger-jaw

Alejandra Ruddoff, 2003, Diachronie, 220 × 120 × 102 cm, aluminum

Alejandra Ruddoff, 2003, In transit, 250 × 70 × 130 cm, finger jaw

Solo exhibitions (selection)

2009	Forward sculpture & sketch	Old Town Hall - Potsdam Forum	Potsdam
2008	At the edge of a reflection	Heidelberg Center	Santiago de Chile
2003	Paths in motion	Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes	Santiago de Chile

Works in public collections

Chile	Germany	China
MNBA Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago MAVI Museo de Artes Visuales, Santiago Parque de las Esculturas, Santiago Diario El Mercurio, Santiago	Chilean Embassy, ​​Berlin DAAD, Bonn Sparkasse Wuppertal, Wuppertal City of Naumburg, public sculpture, Naumburg City of Potsdam, sculpture in public space, Potsdam	Changchun World Sculpture Park, Changchun Museum of Contemporary Art, Changchun

Books

• Alejandra Ruddoff. Forward sculpture & sketch, Ed .: Luisa Frigolett, Santiago, 2009

• Alejandra Ruddoff, Arte en Chile, Ed .: Ezio Mosciatti, Santiago, 2000

Web links

• Alejandra Ruddoff
• "Nach Vorn II" in front of the DAAD main building in Bonn