Christian Riebe

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Christian Riebe (* 1963 in Lübeck ) is a German artist and musician. His work includes works in various artistic fields.

Life

Riebe studied art from 1984 to 1990 at the Hanover University of Applied Sciences . His teachers there were Ulrich Baehr and Peter Tuma . Christian Riebe is a member of the German Association of Artists and a founding member of the Local Fist group . He took part in the DKB annual exhibitions in 1990 (in Berlin), 1991 (in Darmstadt) - for his work he received the grant from the Lower Saxony Sparkassenstiftung (1991), the travel grant from the Alexander Dorner Circle, the young talent grant from the State of Lower Saxony (1992) , the Rome scholarship Villa Massimo (1993), the annual scholarship of the State of Lower Saxony (1996), the Prize of the Volksbank Hannover (2000) and most recently the art prize of the SPD parliamentary group in the Lower Saxony state parliament (2015). From 2003 until the job cuts in the Free Art Department in 2005, he taught painting at the Hanover University of Applied Sciences. His work has been shown in over 70 solo and group exhibitions at home and abroad.

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Visual arts

Christian Riebe; Sing! 2012
Furniture hall of Local Fist in Hanover (notice)

In his early works, Riebe combined medium-format graphite drawings into larger tableaus. In terms of content and form, the works reflect an examination of folk art and votive painting , as well as the Prinzhorn Collection . He uses paper of inferior quality (waste paper, paper for matrix printers and paper napkins), which he glues in layers on top of one another. The plastic deformation of the image carriers through pasting, stuffing, separating and inserting individual image parts is significant for his work to this day. Riebe also deconstructs and collages styles and content in his pictures. Objective picture elements stand next to flat overpaintings, empty spaces and text fragments. Riebe also uses atypical image carriers such as packing blankets, insulation boards or gray cardboard for the large-format paintings that he created from 2002 onwards. Instead of artist's paint he prefers to use varnishes. The large-format pictures often combine graphic, painterly and plastic-relief-like elements (embroidery, embossed sheets and foils). In addition, the titles of the works often appear as lettering in the picture, without the contextual connections being fully revealed. Many large-format works by Riebe name historical topics ( Yuri Gagarin , Charles Fourier , the Machnowschtschina ) or cite historical documents (photographs of spiritualistic meetings , architecture for the protection of homeland and industrial buildings). In 2008 Riebe founded (with the artist Marius Albrecht) the German section of the Local Fist group , which propagates a post-capitalist everyday culture . The artists opened a Local Fist Shop in eight closed shops under Hanover Central Station . The desolate character of the underground shopping mile planned for demolition was sarcastically emphasized by the local fist . As a result, many visitors thought the organizers were an apocalyptic sect. The group quickly branched out into other projects, including a department for restrictive cultural work in Berlin. Works by the participating artists were shown in 2011 in the Wolfenbüttel Art Association and in 2012 in the Städtische Galerie Hannover in regional performance shows organized by Local Fist .

music

Christian Riebe is the founder, lyricist and composer of the Kap Wlodek music group , whose first production, Aus Happy Days, was released by Trikont in 1999 . The band, which existed until 2005, assigned itself to the "Do It Yourself underground". Characteristic are their minimalist arrangements and the instrumentation with home organ, wind instruments, electrically amplified strings, recorders and glockenspiel. Kap Wlodek mostly appeared in the context of cultural events, for example in 1998 in the Kulturbrauerei Berlin, 1999 in the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel and in 2000 in the St. Pancras Chambers, Kings Cross in London . Her program "La Revue Anarchiste", in which stage installations and the projection of old FWU and RWU films were part of the concert, was performed in 2002 at the Sprengel Museum in Hanover . Title of Cape Wlodek were of John Peel on BBC played and found today use in radio and television programs (u. A. The program with the mouse , theme nights with Rolf Cantzen on Germany radio culture ) and in 2007 in the soundtrack of the motion picture film " Meer is nich ". An EP by Kap Wlodek was released in 2001 by Sputnik IDEE Co in Japan.

Other music projects by Christian Riebe are the anti-folk band Poch and, since 2015, the dystopian music performance Little Sister , which was also shown in the Sprengel Museum in 2016.

Literature (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German Association of Artists> Riebe. Retrieved May 8, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Daniel Alexander Schacht: SPD Art Prize: Honoring the Master of Breach of Style , Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , January 22, 2016
  3. ^ Siegfried Neuenhausen: Laudation for the art prize of the SPD parliamentary group. (No longer available online.) SPD state parliamentary group Lower Saxony, archived from the original on August 26, 2016 ; accessed on May 8, 2017 .
  4. ^ Ludwig Zerull: Young art from Lower Saxony . Ed .: Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung. tape 2 . Th. Schäfer, Hanover 1994.
  5. ↑ Michael Stoeber: The good for all . Ed .: Falkenberg Gallery for New Art. Hanover 2014.
  6. ↑ Thom Jurek: All Music Guide_Kap Wlodek. Retrieved May 10, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Kap Wlodek Archive on Bandcamp. Retrieved May 10, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Kap Wlodek Sputnik / IDEE-EP on Bandcamp. Retrieved May 11, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Riebe, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist and musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck