Birgit Ramsauer

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Birgit Ramsauer (* 1962 in Nuremberg ) is a visual artist.

Life

Ramsauer studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg with Heinz Schillinger and Werner Knaupp .

Her work includes objects and paintings as well as installations and performances , which she documented on film and photography, which in turn creates independent works. This happens depending on the location and situation: the place where your work is created and presented are usually identical. In some work series she illuminates a concept from different perspectives or develops new concepts in critical examination of previous ones. She is the founder of the Munich International Art Film Festival. She lives temporarily in Berlin, New York or Nuremberg.

Works

  • 1997–99 Art-home-less . Actions in the streets of New York (1997), Moscow (1998), Marseilles (1998) and Berlin (1999). Topic: "Homelessness"; “Defenselessness of Art” in public space

one of the performances in Berlin, "Air Condition", is part of Manfred Wilhelms' film, "Legend from Potsdamer Platz", which premiered at the 2001 Berlinale

  • 2001 Hush! Gaffer tape campaign (outlines of "passers-by" are taped around)
  • 2004 Spinet Project, an Experiment on Gesamtkunstwerk in New York (including the world premiere of the composition Birgit's Toy by Horst Lohse in the Cooper Union )
  • 2007 Nine screws . Video film (converts a series of installations in Ystad in southern Sweden into a "surreal crime thriller")
  • Berlinische Galerie "NeueHeimat" (group, catalog)
  • 2007 "Sand in the Gear", Chicago Cultural Office project (individual)
  • Performance "Waiting Standpoint" Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin
  • "Odem", video installation, 1000 years of the Archdiocese of Bamberg, Egidienkirche Nuremberg
  • “Dialogue with the Unknown Artist”, Deutsches Haus, NY (single)
  • “Paris in my Mind”, Galerie Michael Steinberg Fine Art, NY (single)
  • “Himmelssüchtig”, Städtische Galerie Bremen, (individual), Women's Museum, Bonn (group)
  • 2007/08 Filmmakers Evening Millennium Film Forum NYC
  • "Moles", Galerie Open, Berlin, solo show
  • 2010 Committee member of the FFF_K field research festival, Academy of the Arts Berlin,
  • M4 / M5 Performance Festival Berlin,
  • "Moles", rendezvous with art, Berlin, curator Isabelle Meiffert,
  • solo voice in "Organi, Stefano Giannotti, Germany radio performance
  • 2011 “Heimsucher und Kosmopolit”, stage + live performance, Oxymoron Dance, Potsdam
  • “Hellwach” permanent sound installation, Sulzbach literature archive
  • 2012 "Graupelwetter", Scotty Enterprises Kunstverein, Berlin, solo show
  • "Spinet - an experiment on Gesamtkunstwerk" ,director house, Illustrative, Berlin

Web links

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  1. ↑ Vita Horst Lohse


personal data
SURNAME Ramsauer, Birgit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg