Ralf Klement

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Ralf Klement (* 1950 in Erfurt ) is a German painter and sculptor .

biography

Ralf Klement's artistic activity began in 1970 with painting. Two years later, Klement devoted himself increasingly to sculpture and his first sculptures were created. Since 1977 he has worked as a freelance artist. 1980-82 Klement took part in the Eichsfeld pleinairs. At the beginning of the 80s, Klement was given a ban on events, after which it was lifted in 1994, he initially took nudes. When he was accepted into the VBK of the GDR in 1988, he was granted a travel permit to the West. In 1990 Klement received the award from Gothaer Versicherung as well as a scholarship from the Kunstfond Bonn and began the Land Art Project “Cubes in Europe”. In the same year he was co-founder of the art association Schloss Röderhof near Halberstadt; In 1993 he founded “blok” together with Susanne Isabel Bockelmann; 1999 foundation of “Monday Shake”; 2007 founder of the “Mirabel Company”. In 2006 Klement was awarded the Mörfelden-Walldorf Sculpture Prize.

Ralf Klement's repertoire is broad: his oeuvre includes paintings such as graphics, collages and handcrafted chainsaw sculptures. The latter impress with their expressive and powerful implementation and yet prove the sensitive empathy that Klement shows his works. Klement is particularly interested in the implementation of materiality, so his pictures have rough surfaces and appear coarse-grained. Characteristic of Klement's painting is the impasto application of paint and his color palette, which is based on earth tones.

Symposia

  • 2015 Symposium Muscat, Oman, Symposium Hämeenlinna, Finland
  • 2014 El Minia Egypt Symposium, Kronach Sculpture Symposium
  • 2009-10-11-12-13-14 Symposium European Artists, Essen
  • 2013 Symposium Luxor Egypt
  • 2011 Symposium Gulbarga, India; Symposium Tenerife; Symposium Miszla, Hungary
  • 2010 Symposium St. Michael, Austria
  • 2008-09-10 Symposium Mezetur, Hungary
  • 2009 Symposium Muscat, Oman, Symposium Schloss Gabelhofen
  • 2008 Symposium Schloss Gabelhofen, Austria 15th Symposium European Artists, Essen / Bochum
  • 2007 Symposium Dorobanti, Romania Sculpture Symposium Dachrieden Sculpture Symposium Friedrichsrode, Thuringia
  • 2005 Sculpture Symposium Schwalmstadt / Sculpture for the Trutzheim Memorial
  • 2000-03-04 International Artist Symposium Mirabel / France
  • 2003 Guest scholarship Galerie Schloss Mochental
  • 2002 sculpture symposium in Kronach
  • 2001 Sculpture Symposium Volkenroda / Mühlhausen
  • 1999 International Artist Symposium Mirabel / France
  • 1999 Fürstenfeldbruck Graphics Symposium
  • 1997 Baltic Symposium Elblag / Poland
  • 1997–98 Zur Brücke international art project Wendland
  • 1995-96-97 work scholarship Kleinsassen
  • 1993 sculpture symposium in Mühlhausen / Bollstedt
  • 1992 Symposium Babe / Brandenburg
  • 1992 sculpture symposium in Mühlhausen / Bollstedt

Works in public and private collections (selection)

  • Heidenheim Art Museum
  • Moyland Castle Museum
  • Van der Grinten collection
  • Saxon State Parliament
  • Dresdner Bank
  • German Bundestag Collection
  • Schmidt Bank Zwickau
  • Museum Pfalz Galerie Kaiserslautern
  • Rudolf and Ilse Franke Collection
  • Angermuseum Erfurt
  • Ewald Schrade
  • Mochental Castle
  • Upper Hessian Museum Giessem
  • Collection Ederer Munich
  • Collection Sultan Qaboos Oman
  • Museum of Modern Art El Minia

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2015: Fernweh - Heimweh, Art History Museum Mühlhausen, Egyptian Academy, Rome, Biennale di Soncino, Beejad Cultural Institute in Morocco
  • 2011: Artour o Firenze, Florence
  • 2002: Michaeliskirche Dresden
  • 2001: Medienhaus Hannover
  • 2000: Erotik Art, Dresden
  • 1999: Deutsches Museum, Munich
  • 1996: Museum Dörmitz, "Zur Brücke", Dannenberg
  • 1995: Schönfeld Palace, Kassel; Casino, Wiesbaden
  • 1994: Cube in Europe, installations in different landscapes, Art In, Meerane
  • 1993: Neues Museum, Landsberg; Zwickau City Museum
  • 1992: Caleway art center, Ireland
  • 1991: Heidenheim Art Museum
  • 1990: European art workshop, Weimar; Workshop with artists and students from St. Martins Academy, London

literature

  • Ralf Klement - Fernweh, Heimweh , Ehingen-Mochental 2015, ISBN 978-3-940295-42-2 .
  • Moon phases: Photo work on Horaz Ed. Ralf Klement, Leipziger Literaturverlag 2005, ISBN 3-934015-81-6 .
  • Ralf Klement - Pictures and Sculptures Texts: Franz Joseph van der Grinten a. Klaus Berner, Kunstverein Salzgitter 1997.
  • View Jochen Brandt u. Ralf Klement, text by Holger Birkholz , Hanau 1994.
  • blok. Susanne Isabel Bockelmann, Ralf Klement. Catalog for the exhibition Museum Schloss Burgk 1994, ISBN 3-86103-018-7 .
  • My love is an open knife P. Mosler, 1991.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bode Gallery & Edition. Retrieved February 16, 2016 .

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Klement, Ralf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt