Christoph Radke
Christoph Radke (* 1949 in Cuxhaven ) is a German contemporary artist .
life and work
Christoph Radke studied at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg .
Among other things, the artist works with photographs, which he uses as material for further image processing. In photographs he has made himself, the artist stages people as an original, “pure existence”. When processing photographic material from the Internet, a. Details of an environment that seem like film stills and can only be guessed at. In another field of work, collages, he combines found objects from the Internet with papers from his studio that bear traces of work or that bear fragments of watercolors. The internet finds are enlarged, reduced, distorted, and the color of the objects changed. These collages play with the poles of nature and technology, whereby the "often perceived opposition between belief in machines and longing for nature" is combined here in a world of images.
In collaboration with Nicolaus Schmidt , Christoph Radke dealt in 2008 with the action in public space, RECONSTRUCCIÓN !, during the 10th Portes Obertes in El Cabanyal, Valencia , with the threatened demolition of this art-historically valuable district.
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1990 Kunsthaus Hamburg , Hamburg
- 1991 studio gallery, Kappeln / Schlei
- 2004 New works , Art Association on Prenzlauer Berg , Berlin
- 2006 My gay eye , Schwules Museum , Berlin
- 2006 Gallery Level +14, Hamburg
- 2008 RECONSTRUCCIÓN! , 10. Portes Obertes, Valencia, Spain
- 2009 No need to worry , Friedman Gallery and Project , Berlin
- 2009 corpus delicti , Adlershof cultural center , Berlin
- 2014 Collages , Gallery of the Art Foundation K52, Berlin
- 2016 On and Beyond the Grid (together with Drew Shiflett), Galerie der Kunststiftung K52, Berlin
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Ines Doleschal: on the exhibition in the Friedman Galerie Berlin
- ^ Sigrid Melchior, Natursehnsucht und Maschinenglauben, text in the catalog "Christoph Radke - Collagen", Kunststiftung K52, Berlin 2014, p. 5
- ↑ El Cabanyal se abre al arte . In: El País , October 18, 2008
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Radke, Christoph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cuxhaven |