Christoph Ruckhäberle

Christoph Ruckhäberle (* 1972 in Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm ) is a German painter who belongs to the so-called New Leipzig School .

life and work

Ruckhäberle studied animation at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia in 1991/92 and received a scholarship from the Walt Disney Character Animation Fund in 1993 before he came to Leipzig . There he studied from 1997 to 1999 at the College of Graphics and Book Art , where he was a master student of Arno Rink in 2000 . In 2001 he received the state grant from the Free State of Saxony .

Ruckhäberle had his first solo exhibition in 2001 at the Leipziger Galerie Kleindienst, further exhibitions in France, Great Britain, Denmark and the United States followed.

In 2002 he was a co-founder of the Liga producer gallery in Berlin , which was supported by eleven former students of the College of Graphics and Book Art, including Tim Eitel , Matthias Weischer and Tom Fabritius . The producer gallery league disbanded in 2004 after two years of existence.

Together with Michael Ludwig he founded the Ludwig & Ruckhäberle GbR , which was the sponsor of the cinema, music and literature events at the Schaubühne Lindenfels . Due to insufficient cost coverage, Ludwig and Ruckhäberle ceased commercial cinema operations in the Schaubühne in June 2009 and in October of the same year opened the Luru-Kino , a arthouse cinema in Hall 18 of the former Leipzig cotton spinning mill in the Lindenau district , where Ruckhäberle's studio is also located.

In 2007 Christoph Ruckhäberle founded Lubok Verlag in Leipzig. Since then, original graphic artist books with linocuts by contemporary artists have been published there. Each volume of the Lubok series contains linocuts by around 10 contemporary artists with their own artistic signature.

Ruckhäberle lives and works in Leipzig.

Participation in exhibitions (selection)

• 2013: Berlin Klondyke Hipphalle, Gmunden, Austria
• 2013: Cliche Verre, Spinnerei archiv massiv, Leipzig
• 2013: Elective affinities. Current paintings and drawings from the Frieder Burda Collection, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf / Switzerland
• 2013: LUBOK in Mexico, Museo de la Estampa del Instituto Mexiquense de Cultura, Toluca, Mexico
• 2013: Years of the Future, Self Defense Gallery, Sonneberg
• 2013: SECOND, Kulturhalle Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm
• 2013: LUBOK in Mexico, Centro Cultural Clavijero, Morelia, Mexico
• 2013: PURCHASED - New acquisitions of the graphic collection 2003 - 2013, Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig
• 2013: LUBOK. Grafica contemporanea y libros de artistas de Leipzig, Galería de Arte Contemporáneo del Teatro Isauro Martínez Torreón, Coahuila, México
• 2012: Berlin-Klondyke, Neuer Pfaffenhofener Kunstverein
• 2012: german now - from Leipzig, Seongnam Art Center, South Korea
• 2012: Lubok, Grafica contemporánea y libros de artistas de Leipzig, Museo Nacional de la Estampa, Mexico City
• 2012: Lubok. Prints and artist books from Leipzig, Kulturbahnhof Eller, Düsseldorf
• 2011: Convoy Leipzig, Biksady Gallery, Budapest
• 2011: Parcours, Auf AEG, Nuremberg
• 2011: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Galerie Reinhard Hauff
• 2011: After The Goldrush, Kunstverein Speyer
• 2011: Saxonia Paper, Kunsthalle der Sparkasse Leipzig
• 2009: Christoph Ruckhäberle , Migros Museum , Zurich. (Solo exhibition)
• 2009: 60/40/20. Art in Leipzig since 1949 , Museum of Fine Arts , Leipzig. (Participation in exhibition)
• 2008: The Leipzig Phenomenon , Kunsthalle Budapest (participation in an exhibition)
• 2008: Manifesta7 , European Biennale for Contemporary Art, Trentino-South Tyrol (I) (participation in the exhibition)
• 2006: Ball artist , Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig (participation in exhibition)
• 2003: Painting seven times , Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig (participation in an exhibition)

bibliography

• 2011 Barry Schwabsky: “Vitamin P2. New Perspectives in Painting ”. In English. Phaidon, 352 pages

Web links

• Literature by and about Christoph Ruckhäberle in the catalog of the German National Library
• Christoph Ruckhäberle on kunstaspekte.de
• Christoph Ruckhäberle at the Kleindienst gallery
• Ruckhäberle exhibition at the LIGA gallery
• Lithographs by Christoph Ruckhäberle

Individual evidence

1. ^ Website of the league gallery
2. ↑ Melanie Jordan, Malcolm Miles: Art and theory after socialism. Intellekt Books, Bristol et al. Chicago 2008, ISBN 978-1-84150211-3 , pp. 16 f.
3. ↑ website Luru cinemas
4. ↑ Leipzig cotton mill: Christoph Ruckhäberle
5. ^ Lubok publishing house: publisher portrait. ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 57 kB)