Lars Ramberg

Lars Ø. Ramberg (* 1964 in Oslo ) is an international artist who was born in Norway. He has lived in Berlin since 1998.

Ramberg mainly deals with installations, photo manipulations and performances, trying to express his idea of ​​freedom and social life. His field of activity is primarily the public space with the starting point in the social and historical material found.

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Norwegian independence in 2005, he realized the interactive sculpture "Liberté" for the National Museum in Oslo, consisting of three French outhouses in the colors of the tricolor and the Norwegian national flag, referring to the connection between French Revolution and Norwegian Popular Democracy. Like many of his works, the action was controversial. Conversation formation is not only a consequence, but also an essential part of Ramberg's work.

A scholarship at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin led the artist to Germany in 1998. Here he prepared the project "Berlin Ostbahnhof" with the original letters of the East Berlin train station and designed a utopian train journey through Europe, with 40 meters of writing as a load - a visualization of German-European and German-German history. The action actually only took place in the model on a map, but is potentially still waiting to be realized. Ramberg only became known in Germany in 2005 due to a broader media coverage: On January 26, 2005, the artist installed neon-lit letters more than six meters high on the roof of the Palast der Republik in Berlin , which formed the word ZWEIFEL . The lettering was part of the Palace of Doubt project . With this, Ramberg wanted to promote the discussions about the palace and connect it to the discourse about lost utopias, the search for new perspectives and identities. The campaign ran until May 10, 2005.

At the instigation of the artist Ramberg, a picture of the palace with the words ZWEIFEL was taken for copyright reasons from the exhibition ZeitSchichten - Recognize and Preserve - Monument Preservation in Germany in Dresden (2005), which, among other things, deals with the monument preservation aspects of the discussion about the demolition of the Palace grapples.

In Germany Ramberg has participated in numerous exhibitions, especially group exhibitions, so u. a. to Norske Profiler ( Museum Folkwang Essen, Kunsthalle Rostock, 1997), Berlin North ( Hamburger Bahnhof , Berlin, 2004), Urban Realities: Focus Istanbul ( Martin-Gropius-Bau , 2005). Individual actions were mainly to be seen in the Scandinavian region, but also in Germany. Ramberg was also active internationally in France, the Netherlands and Mexico. In October 2006 Ramberg took part in the São Paulo Biennale in Brazil , and in 2007 he was represented in the Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale .

literature

• Lars O. Ramberg , Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2007, ISBN 978-3-7757-2038-0

Web links

• Homepage of Lars Ramberg
• Lars Ramberg in theInternet Movie Database(English)