Matthias Rataiczyk

Matthias Rataiczyk (born February 2, 1960 in Halle (Saale) ) is a German painter and graphic artist who deals with the finiteness of earthly life in his work, dealing intensively with a wide variety of cultures. On worldwide travels he processes his experiences in his works.

Live and act

Matthias Rataiczyk was born in Halle in 1960 as the son of the painters and graphic artists Rosemarie and Werner Rataiczyk . After graduating from high school, he studied from 1982 to 1987 at Burg Giebichenstein Art College in Halle with Inge Götze. Since his diploma in 1987 and subsequent additional studies, he has been working as a freelancer in Halle.

Dealing with the demolition of entire parts of his hometown Halle in the mid-1980s led him to an artistic examination of architecture .

In 1991 he and ten other colleagues were among the founders of the art association "Talstrasse" eV, and since then he has been chairman of the association. He has curated a large number of exhibitions, is the editor of a number of catalog books for the Kunstverein and is active in a wide variety of committees and advisory boards. He was also a member of the cultural convention of Saxony-Anhalt in 2011/12.

With the political change in East Germany and the associated new opportunities, he moved to the Mediterranean countries at the beginning of the 1990s . From 1999 to 2004 he went on long study trips to Asia , where he dealt with the cultures he visited and created a wide variety of painting and drawing cycles. A visit to the Qin Shihuangdis mausoleum while on a trip to China in 2004 changed Rataiczyk's style. The figurative gained in importance. In the years from 2004 to 2009 it was encounters with mummy finds that moved him and stimulated him to become an artist. In particular, it was an extensive study trip to Peru in 2008 , where he met the Chachapoyamummies . In recent years, the inspiration for his work has increasingly come from architecture and landscape.

Exhibitions (selection)

• 2015: Galerie Himmelreich "Shadow Worlds"
• 2013: Art Association "Talstrasse", "Schattenwelten"
• 2012: HOVHANNES SHARAMEYAN National Museum of Folk ART, Yerevan (Armenia) / Exhibition participation "Call out art"
• 2010: Tragor Ignác Múzeum, Vác ( Hungary ), " Memento mori "
• 2009: Sepulkralmuseum Kassel , participation in the exhibition “Mummies - Bodies for Eternity” / Kunsthalle Bad Kösen / Galerie Irrgang, Leipzig /
• 2009: Art Association "Talstrasse" eV, Halle, participation in the exhibition "Allegory of Transience"
• 2008: Otto Gallery, Munich / Willi-Sitte Gallery, Merseburg
• 2007: Art Association Uelzen
• 2004: Gallery Dr. Stelzer and Zaglmaier, Halle / Mansfeldgalerie, Lutherstadt Eisleben
• 2002: Art gallery of the Silpakorn University , Bangkok, with Damrong Wong Uparaj Art Association “Talstrasse” eV, STUDIO, Halle
• 2001: Gallery South, Magdeburg, Art Association "Talstrasse" eV, Halle, together with Werner Rataiczyk, State Parliament Saxony-Anhalt, Foyer Gallery, Magdeburg, State Parliament Saxony-Anhalt, Foyer Gallery, Magdeburg,
• 2000: Wernigeröder Art and Culture Association, Wernigerode , together with Wolf Bröl Galerie Himmelreich, Magdeburg  Galerie Kommode - new theater, Halle
• 1998: "ZeitKUNSTGalerie", Halle / "Grafisches Kabinett der AOK", Halle / Galerie Uprstenu, Prague, together with Halle artists / Galerie Altes Kloster, Cologne, together with other Halle artists
• 1997: “Kunst-Forum Bonn”, Bonn , together with Andreas Reichel and Galerie Türke, Dortmund , with Anne Viecens
• 1995: Art Association "Talstrasse" eV, Halle, together with Karl Fulle and Axel Müller
• 1995: "ZeitKUNSTGalerie", Halle, together with Jens Gussek
• 1994: Galerie Altes Rathaus, Worpswede , together with Anne Viecenz, Jens Gussek, Beatrix Weißflog
• 1992: “Bürgerhaus” gallery, Schwabach, together with Beatrix Weißflog
• 1989: Galerie “Alter Markt”, Halle, together with Christine Triebsch

Architectural art

• 1989/90: Glass design for the day bar “Tivolie”, Leipzig
• 1992: "Elisabeth window", lead glass window in the Elisabeth hospital in Halle together with Werner Rataiczyk
• 1993: Leaded glass windows for a funeral hall in Freiberg (Saxony) together with Werner Rataiczyk
• 1998: Floor design for the foyer of the New Theater in Halle

Working in public collections

• State of Saxony-Anhalt (state collection), Halle (Saale)
• Archive and custody of Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle (Saale)
• Collection of the Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt Main

literature

• Inge Götze and Schüler , Galerie Unter den Linden, Berlin, April 19 to May 20, 1989, catalog
• Textil 90 , for the 4th exhibition of textile design in the GDR, Weimar September 8 to October 28, 1990, catalog
• Braas Galerie Kunst from Halle, September 19 to October 9, 1991, catalog
• Art and Form , exhibition at Handwerksform, Hanover, April 24 to May 22, 1993, catalog
• Art landscapes , Configura - project and art and form, Galerie am Fischmarkt, Erfurt , 1993, catalog
• Sketches and portraits from Halle , Publicon Verlag GmbH, Freiberg , 1993,
• Art from Halle , VEW, Dortmund, October 18 to December 3, 1993, catalog
• Art in public space , Association of Visual Artists, 1993, catalog
• Forty artists , Association of Hallescher Künstler 1994, catalog
• State artist catalog Saxony-Anhalt, 1994.
• Freestyle , Art and Form for the exhibition at Künstlerhaus 188, Halle and Künstlerhaus am Wasserturm, Berlin, April 8 to May 6, 1995, catalog
• State Building Authority Halle / Results Artistic Competition Martin Luther University Halle / Member of the jury / Brochure #
• Matthias Rataiczyk Painting 1990-1998, Art Association "Talstrasse", 1998, Halle, catalog
• Moritz Götze & Matthias Rataiczyk “Between Imagery and Citizenship”, October - inform 03, p. 22.
• Halle and Halle , Mitteldeutsche Energieversorgung Aktiengesellschaft, 2002, Halle.
• Matthias Rataiczyk Painting 1999-2002 , Art Association "Talstrasse", 2002, Halle, catalog.
• So far and yet so close? Steffi Schältzke, December 2003 - Iposa.de - das magazin, p. 34
• Rataiczyk - Rosemarie, Werner, Matthias , / Galerie Stelzer and Zaglmaier, 2004, Halle, catalog
• in der zeit - art from Saxony-Anhalt, 2004, Magdeburg
• Association of Hallescher Künstler, 2004, catalog
• Matthias Rataiczyk Painting 2003-2006, Art Association "Talstrasse", 2006, Halle, catalog
• Gertraud Möhwald - Matthias Rataiczyk , catalog, Kunstverein Uelzen eV, 2007
• Shadow worlds Matthias Rataiczyk. Pictures and drawings 1989-2013 , Mitteldeutscher Verlag, 2013, Halle
• 3: 1 serve hall. Lutz Bolldorf / Matthias Rataiczyk / Renée Reichenbach / Ulrich Reimkasten, Publishing House of Burg Giebichenstein Art Academy Halle and Art Association “Talstrasse”, 2016, Halle

Editing (selection)

Matthias Rataiczyk is involved as editor of more than 90 publications, mostly catalog books of the art association "Talstrasse" eV until 2019.

• Matthias Rataiczyk (Red.): Fifteen years of art association “Talstrasse”: 1991–2006. Kunstverein Talstrasse, Halle (Saale) 2006, ISBN 3-932962-33-8 .
• Catalogs / Matthias Rataiczyk (Ed.): Art en Vogue, Horst P. Horst meets the “Red Dior”; Photography and models; an exhibition with loans from the Weißenfels Museum … Kunstverein Talstrasse, Halle (Saale) 2010, ISBN 978-3-932962-51-6 .
• Matthias Rataiczyk (Ed.): Maria Lassnig, Regina Götz, Ich und ich, an exhibition with loans from the Helmut Klewan Collection, Munich-Vienna. Kunstverein Talstrasse, Halle (Saale) 2010, ISBN 978-3-932962-52-3 .
• 2010: Couleur et Géometrié, Concrete Art International (Catalog: ISBN 978-2-913909-29-8 )
• 2010: Spiridon Neven DuMont , A Seeker at the Limits of Illusion (catalog)
• 2010/2011: The phenomenon of space, on the trail of Halle's sculpting tradition. (Catalog: ISBN 978-3-932962-55-4 )
• 2011: Kurt Bunge (painter) , On the 100th birthday (Catalog: ISBN 978-3-932962-60-8 )
• 2011/2012: Serving Faith - Sacred Device in Modernity (Catalog: ISBN 978-3-932962-63-9 )
• 2012: Eva Mahn , Halle and the rest of the world, photography from the years 1976–1989 (Catalog: ISBN 978-3-932962-66-0 )
• 2012: Charles Crodel , painting. ISBN 978-3-932962-70-7 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Matthias Rataiczyk in the catalog of the German National Library
• Artist's website
• A joint exhibition by the Rataiczyk family in 2004 ( Memento from April 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
• Dorit Litt: Introduction to the exhibition "Gertraud Möhwald - Matthias Rataiczyk" in the gallery of the Kunstverein Uelzen in the Theater an der Ilmenau on January 27, 2007

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Andreas Kühne: Passion for Eternity. In: otto-galerie.de. Otto Gallery, accessed March 8, 2013 . 
2. ^ ^{A b c} Barbara Kaiser: With pleasure for the material. (pdf; 9 kB) In: kunstvereine.de. Arbeitsgemeinschaft deutscher Kunstvereine, accessed on March 8, 2013 . 
3. ↑ https://www.mz-web.de/kultur/ Background-kulturkonvent-sachsen-anhalt- 6731294
4. ↑ Search for traces, pictures by Matthias Rataiczyk. (No longer available online.) In: kleinod. Evangelical church community Büderich, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved March 8, 2013 . 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.  
5. ↑ Jörg-Heiko Bruns: The big topic of becoming and passing away. Volksstimme , December 1, 2012, accessed March 8, 2013 . 
6. ^ Matthias Rataiczyk book list. In: archINFORM . Sascha Hendel, accessed on March 8, 2013 (list of 25 works).