Ralf Peters (photographer)

Ralf Peters (* 1960 in Lüneburg ) is a German photographer.

Life

Ralf Peters studied from 1982 to 1983 at the Braunschweig University of Art . In 1984 he studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts / Nîmes / France. From 1985 on he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . He completed his studies in 1991.

General information about the work

Ralf Peters began his artistic work with politically oriented paintings. Since 1987 he has been working in the field of situational sculptures, room installations and individual objects. From 1994 the group of works 64 models was created, which brought the artist first attention through exhibitions in the Haus der Kunst in Munich and the Kunsthalle Hamburg . In 1998 Ralf Peters turned to photography. The first conceptual photographic series "Gas Stations" was created, with a conceptual reference to artists such as ed Ruscha and Edward Hopper . Peters does not have a photography-oriented education, but approaches the medium from a conceptual point of view. From the beginning he uses the possibilities of digital image processing and understands the photographic material as the starting material to be processed. The oscillation between manipulated photography and documentary photography becomes characteristic of his work. His documentary works appear to the viewer in front of his own horizon of experience as digitally processed photographs.

Ralf Peters was a member of the German Association of Artists .

Art market

Ralf Peters works are in the possession of international museums, companies and private collections. He is represented exclusively by the Bernhard Knaus Fine Art gallery in Frankfurt. His works are also available at the following galleries: Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zurich, Switzerland; Diana Lowenstein Gallery, Miami; USA, Base Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; Galeria Torbandena, Trieste, Italy.

Solo exhibitions

• 2018 Flying Balances, Carina Andres Thalmann Gallery, Zurich; Ralf Peters, Galerie Martin Mertens, Berlin (with Tessa Verder)
• 2017 "Between night and day" Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven
• 2011 Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zurich; Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt; Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami, USA
• 2010 Photo Museum in the Münchner Stadtmuseum , Munich
• 2009 Base Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
• 2008 Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami, USA; Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt
• 2007 Kunstverein Mannheim, Mannheim
• 2005 Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami, USA
• 2004 Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven (K); Bernhard Knaus Gallery, Mannheim (K); Museum Schloss Agathenburg (K); Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim (K); Nordhorn City Gallery (K)
• 2003 Gallery Mosel + Chekhov, Munich
• 2001 Art Association Springhornhof / Neuenkirchen (K); Gallery Mosel & Chekhov; Art Association Recklinghausen (K)
• 2000 Heidenheim Art Association; Kulturforum Lüneburg; Gallery Dörrie * Priess Hamburg
• 1998 "Open Sudies" Gallery Mosel & Chekhov, Munich (K)
• 1996 Raffl Gallery / Meran (Italy) "Hundred Masterpieces"
• 1995 Art Forum Lenbachhaus / Munich (K); Nordhorn City Gallery (K)
• 1994 Kunstverein / Nürnberg (K) (with Gerhard Winkler); Gallery Mosel & Chekhov / Munich (K); Förderkoje Cologne Art Fair / Galerie Mosel Chekhov
• 1993 Shop Gallery Lothringerstraße Munich (K)
• 1992 Museum for the Principality of Lüneburg (K)

Group exhibitions (selection)

• 2018 Light-sensitive 2, photography from the Schaufler Collection, Sindelfingen exhibition (until 2020); The night. Everything except sleep, Museum for Communication , Frankfurt _; Lichte Momente, Stadthaus, Ulm; Sleep, Vögele Culture Center, Freienbach, Switzerland; The night. Everything except sleep, Museum for Communication , Nuremberg
• 2017 Light- sensitive 2, photograph from the Schaufler Collection - SCHAUWERK Sindelfingen ; 2017 the night. Everything except sleep, Museum for Communication , Berlin
• 2016 Speed, Helmholz Center Berlin , Berlin
• 2015 25 th anniversary, Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami
• 2012 12.12.12, Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt; 100 masterpieces - staged painting in space, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven ; Aesthetics of Nature, Altana Cultural Foundation
• 2011 Out of focus - after Gerhard Richter, Kunsthalle Hamburg
• 2010 Let there be Dark! Night presentations in the contemporary art Stadtgalerie Kiel; Art Museum Mülheim an der Ruhr in the Alte Post; "Destination: Wilhelmshaven", Wilhelmshaven art gallery
• 2009 "Let there be darkness! Night representations in contemporary art", Städtische Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen; "Patterns in Nature", Städtische Galerie Neunkirchen; "Patterns in Nature", Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt
• 2007 "More than meets the eye", Collection Deutsche Bank , Museo de Artes Modernas, Lima, Peru; "The love of light", Museum Bochum ; "More than meets the eye", Collection Deutsche Bank, Fundación Cultural Plaza, Mulato Gil de Castro, Santiago de Chile, Chile; "More than meets the eye", Collection Deutsche Bank; "More than meets the eye", Collection Deutsche Bank, Pabellon de las Bellas Artes, Pontificia Universidad Católica, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Kunsthalle Tübingen , "Head to Head. Serial Portrait Photography"; STATEMENT, Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt, Germany
• 2006 "Salon Lessing (1), Artists for Miroslav Tichy, Zurich;" Lead Award ", Deichtorhallen, Hamburg ;" More than meets the eye ", Collection Deutsche Bank, Marco Museum, Monterrey, Mexico;" Polemos ", Fortezza di Gavi , Italy; "More than meets the eye", Collection Deutsche Bank, Colegio de San IlDefonso, Mexico City; "More than meets the eye", Collection Deutsche Bank, Museo del Banco de la Republica, Bogota, Colombia; "Die Liebe on light "Kunstmuseum Celle (Robert Simon Foundation);" The love of light "Städtische Galerie, Delmenhorst
• 2005 Municipal Gallery in the Rathauspark, Gladbeck; Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami, USA
• 2004 Landscape + Still Life ", International Days Ingelheim; Collection of HVB, Kunsthaus Hamburg ;" Dreamscapes ", Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels
• 2003 "Summer Holiday", Bernhard Knaus Gallery, Mannheim; "Ornament ... or the new pleasure in crime in contemporary art", Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven ; Luitpold Lounge Munich
• 2001 "close up" Kunstverein Hannover ; "Nightscapes" Stadthaus Ulm (K); "Trade" Fotomuseum Winterthur and Photo Institute, Rotterdam
• 2002 "smax®" Villa de Bank Enschede NL (K); Contemporary German photography from the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach Foundation , Museum Folkwang (K); State Art Museum, Arsenal Art Hall, Riga; State Russian Museum, Department of Contemporary Art St. Petersburg
• 2000 "close up" Kunstverein Freiburg , Kunstverein Baselland (K); "ein | give" Hamburger Kunsthalle / Galerie der Gegenwart (K); "11 positions. Photography" Hans-Thoma-Gesellschaft Reutlingen
• 1998 stylus art " Altonaer Museum , Hamburg (K)
• 1996 Aalst Biennale "Utopia", Belgium (C)
• 1995 Sponsorship Awards 1995, Lothringerstraße, Munich (K)
• 1994 "Interior States" Henrietta House, London; "Sharp in Look", House of Art , Munich (K)
• 1993 "The mysteries take place in the main station ...", Galerie Mosel & Chekhov, Munich; "here & there", Goethe-Institut, London
• 1992 "Photography", Academy Munich (K); "Model", Ritterwerke / Munich (K)

Prices

• 2009 Art Prize of the Lüneburg Landscape Association
• 2002 Dr. Hedwig-Meyn. Prize
• 2002 working grant from Lower Saxony
• 2001 Lower Saxony sponsorship award
• 1999 Lower Saxony annual scholarship
• 1998 "German Photo Prize"; Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach Foundation
• 1997 Bleckede Castle / Lower Saxony (annual work grant)
• 1995 Art Prize of the City of Nordhorn
• 1995 Award for Fine Arts of the City of Munich
• 1994 Steiner Foundation / Munich
• 1994–95 annual DAAD / London scholarship

Collections (selection)

• SCHAUWERK Sindelfingen, Schaufler private collection
• Speyer Family Collection, New York
• ALTANA AG Art Collection, Frankfurt, Germany
• Central Insurance, Cologne, Germany
• Deutsche Bank Collection , Frankfurt, Germany
• German Medical Association, Berlin, Germany
• DIBA Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
• Hypo Vereinsbank, Munich, Germany
• Lenbachhaus Munich, Germany
• UBS Bank, Zurich, Switzerland
• UBS Bank, Milan, Italy
• From Dürkheim Collection, London, England

Individual evidence

1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund since it was founded in 1903 / Peters, Ralf ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. (accessed December 6, 2015) 
2. ^ The love of light - Photography in the 20th and 21st centuries - Kunstmuseum Bochum. Retrieved May 3, 2020 . 

literature

• Catalog "Aesthetics of Nature", Altana Kulturstiftung 2012
• Catalog "100 masterpieces", staged painting in space, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven 2012
• Catalog "Unscharf nach Gerhard Richter, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Galerie der Gegenwart, Hamburg 2011
• Catalog "Let there be darkness, Stadtgalerie Kiel Art Museum 2011, Art Museum Mülheim an der Ruhr in the Alte Post 2011
• Catalog "Ziel" Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven 2011
• Ralf Peters, Until Today, ed. Bernhard Knaus, texts by Klaus Honnef, Heinz Kattner, Renate Puvogel , Raimar Stange, design by Naroska Design, German / English, Hatje Cantz Verlag, ISBN 978-3-7757-2608-5
• Catalog "Let there be darkness" Städtische Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen, 2009
• Catalog "PATTERNS IN NATURE" Stadtische Galerie Neuenkirchen, 2009
• Catalog "Head to Head" serial portrait photography, Martin Helmhold, Kehrer Verlag, Kunsthalle Tübingen 2007
• Catalog "The Love of Light", Kunstmuseum Celle, Bettina Maarssen, 2006
• Catalog "POLEMOS" Forte di Gavi, Alessandria, Angela Madesani, Silvana Editoriale, 2006
• Catalog "More than the eye can grasp" photographic art from the Deutsche Bank Collection, Frankfurt 2006
• Catalog "Luminous Buildings: Architecture of the Night", Hatje Cants 2006 Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
• Sleek / August 2005 "LIGHT / NIGHT Light Oasis
• Catalog "PLASTIC PHOTOGRAPHY" Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Daniel Spanke, Edition Bernhard Knaus, 2004
• Catalog "The Secret of Photography-Landscape and Still Life" International Days Boehringer Ingelheim, Partricia Rochard, 2004 Ingelheim
• "Contemporary German Photography" Steidl Verlag / Museum Folkwang 2003
• Catalog "Telling About Horses", Kunsthalle Göppingen, Hatje Cantz, 2002
• "Nightscapes" 2001 Katharina Menzel, Hatje Cants, Stadthaus Ullm
• "Trade" 2001 Urs Stahel, Martin Jaeggi, Thomas Seelig, Scalo Verlag / Fotomuseum Winterthur
• "CLOSE UP" 2000 Stephan Berg, Carsten Ahrens, modo Verlag, Kunstverein Hannover
• Catalog "UP AND DOWN" Vereins- und Westbank, Carl Haenlein, 2000 Hamburg
• Catalog "einI raum" 2000 Frank Barth, Friederike Wappler, Hatje Cants / Hamburger Kunsthalle
• Catalog "Big Illusions" 1999 Stefan Gronert "Reality is not totally real" Kunstmuseum Bonn
• Artforum International December 1998 Justin Hoffmann: Ralf Peters (Reviews)
• Art Bulletin 7/8 98 Anne Maier "Ralf Peters at the Mosel & Chekhov Gallery"
• Catalog "OPEN STUDIES" 1998 Justin Hoffmann "Lichtbilder der Ökonomie"
• Catalog "Utopia" 1996 (paper biennial of the city of Aalst, Belgium) Heinz Schütz "Portable Ideas"
• Städtische Galerie Nordhorn "Temperatur der Raum" 1995 Martin Köttering, Christoph Blase
• Catalog Kunstforum Lenbachhaus Munich "Gifts to Architects"
• Kunstverein Hannover 1/1995 exhibitions
• Catalog Promotional Prizes Munich 1995, Vitus H.Weh "Hundred Masterpieces"
• Artforum International April 1995, Justin Hoffmann: Ralf Peters (Reviews)
• Art Bulletin 5/1995, Justin Hoffmann: "Installations on offer"
• Catalog "Sharp Im Looking" 1995 House of Art Munich, Hubertus Gaßner; Bernhard Schwenk
• Review 2/93, Justin Hoffmann: Ralf Peters, "Constructive Systems"
• Catalog, Museum for the Principality of Lüneburg 1992, "Ralf Peters" text by Antje Harries; Justin Hoffmann

Web links

• Artist's website
• Ralf Peters on artnet
• Ralf Peters on artfacts
• Ralf Peters on artsy.net
• Ralf Peters on Photography Now