Christoph Rihs

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Christoph Rihs (* 1957 in Beirut , Lebanon ) is a Swiss artist.

Rihs came to Biel / Bienne from Beirut in Switzerland as a teenager . In 1977 he made his there Matura . From 1980 to 1986 he studied fine arts and architecture with Christian Megert at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . In 1982 he received a federal scholarship, from 1984 to 1985 he lived as a scholarship holder at the Swiss Institute in Rome . In 1990 he finally received a working grant from the Kunstfonds Bonn Foundation .

From 1990 to 1993 he was teaching at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. In 1994 he won first prize in the competition for the design of cooling tower 1 at the Meppen power station . From 2001 to 2002 he held another teaching position at the Bauhaus University Weimar . 2003–2004 he was visiting professor for fine arts, faculty of design, again at the Bauhaus University Weimar.

In 2008 he received a working grant from the Thuringian Cultural Foundation. From 2008 to 2009 he was also a guest artist at the Young Eun Museum Gwangju (South Korea). In 2012 he worked in Cairo in one of the guest studios of the Swiss City Conference on Culture.

Christoph Rihs is a member of the German Association of Artists . He works and lives in Weimar, Biel and Bourguignon (France).

Works

"Weltbild" (1994) - painting on the cooling tower of the Meppen-Hüntel power plant . The largest world map in the world according to the Guinness Book of Records .
  • 1981: Dufourstr - sequences of movements recorded in chalk. The resulting pictures are »similar to those of a ballet dancer« ( Marie Luise Syring )
  • 1983: Seh-Raum , also called egoversum .
  • 1984: mondo mio
  • 1985: osservatorio romano with references to the astronomical observation station of the same name and to the Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano
  • 1989: L'enterrement
  • 1991: Worldviews
  • 1994: Weltbild - design of the outside of the cooling tower of a gas power plant in Meppen-Hüntel (implementation of the work after winning a tender under the chairmanship of Ulrich Krempel )
  • 1999: Bols in Meiningen. The model for this was the potato of the cosmographer Martin Behaim (1492)
  • 2000: Fish / Ship in Erfurt Cathedral , a stainless steel sculpture with aluminum frames, which can be understood as a hybrid being made of ship and fish.
  • 2006: Photographic collages, composed of up to 200 individual images. Jenoptik Gallery, Jena and Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Neuchatel.
  • 2008: "jardin pétrifié" - a "herbarium" in concrete slabs. Installation in Faux Mouvement, Metz

swell

  • Detlef Bluemler: Poetic Reason . In: artist. Critical Lexicon of Contemporary Art, issue 60/2002 .

literature

  • Liz Bachhuber, Christoph Rihs: As the World Turns . Galerie am Fischmarkt, Erfurt 1998.
  • Christoph Rihs: Errata dance! Hatje-Cantz, Ostfildern 1999, ISBN 3775790195
  • Christoph Rihs: Ego in sum . Tuttlingen undated (2003).
  • Christoph Rihs: testimonials , Jenoptik Gallery, Jena 2006

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Members "R" / Christoph Rihs (accessed on December 17, 2015)

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personal data
SURNAME Rihs, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Beirut , Lebanon