Ralf Tekaat

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Ralf Tekaat (* 1970 in Bobingen ) is a contemporary German artist .

Life

Tekaat studied visual communication at the Münster University of Applied Sciences from 1992 to 1997 , where he graduated in 1997. From 1997 to 2002 he studied fine arts with Wolfgang Schmitz and Paco Knöller at the University of the Arts in Bremen . In 2002 he made his diploma there and in 2003 his master class . From 2001 to 2005 he had his studio in the Künstlerhaus Bremen, where he was also a member of the board. From 2005 to 2008 he was teaching at the University of the Arts in Bremen. In 2008 he lived in Brooklyn , NY for six months . Tekaat lives and works in Berlin .

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Ralf Tekaat is a draftsman. In his pencil drawings, he uses dense hatching to model objects that appear futuristic, but whose dimensions cannot be precisely defined. “But as concrete - material, technoid, fetish-like - the objects appear too - real dimensions and real weight cannot be read. The drawings could be construction sketches. [...] On the sheet of paper, things lead an artificial life of their own, shadowless, anchorless, unfinished with artistic intent, and present themselves as drafts and ideas. They are distant from reality and at the same time irritatingly close. "

His wall and room-filling installations are more of a narrative character. In his work In Search of Thomas R. Pynchon (2002/2003), for which he received the Bremen Fine Arts Award in 2002, he traces the figure of the fugitive writer Thomas Pynchon . Real and fictional material - obtained during research during a stay in New York - creates a conspiratorial and fragmentary network of topographical, biographical and literary orientations. Through the formal interconnection of different media - drawing, photography, found object - the identities of author and artist overlap.

In another installation DALLAS and what am I telling my children , Tekaat addresses his memory of his grandfather and why he did not talk about his wartime and Soviet imprisonment. The central moment of this work is the question that the artist asks himself - but also his generation - “What could or should the grandchildren have done to get his grandfather to talk?” These handwritten “scraps of memory” are contrasted. with Tekaat's childhood photos, in which he reenacts battles between Indians and cowboys or even soldiers on a scale of 1:72 from the Second World War with his characters . "The artist as a seeker, one who pokes the grandfathers' silence on behalf of the grandchildren, a youngster who in this way takes up Gerhard Richter's approach to researching the German past."

Together with the Bremen artist Norbert Bauer, Tekaat invented and developed the rocket man, a German superhero, who appeared for the first time in 1954 at the soccer world championship final in Bern (also known as The Miracle of Bern ) and since then, although mostly anonymously, accomplishes his deeds in the Federal Republic. With this figure, the artists have tried to interweave classic patterns of American superhero tales with German post-war history. The work and appearance of the rocket man is documented using sketches, photos, film and a brochure.

In a new joint project, Bauer / Tekaat dedicate themselves to “BROKDORF” (2008/2009) on political symbols and research into myths. The West German anti-nuclear movement experienced its inexorable rise and its greatest defeats in Brokdorf . Using drawings, found objects, observations, photographs and videos, Bauer and Tekaat create a fictional archive of social trench warfare since the early 1980s.

Awards and grants

  • 1996: Residency grant from the Aldegrever Society in the Künstlerhaus Ekely , Oslo (cat.)
  • 1998: OAS sponsorship award for photography and graphics
  • 2000: Residency grant from the community of Wangerland in the Künstlerhaus Hooksiel
  • 2002: Residency grant from the BBK Bremen in Point B, New York
  • 2003: Bremen Sponsorship Award 2002
  • 2004: Bremen artist funding
  • 2006: Annual grant from the Art Fund Foundation
  • 2007: Residence grant from the city of Wertingen
  • 2007: Art Prize of the Art Association Bobingen
  • 2008: Annual scholarship from the State of Lower Saxony

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions
  • 1999: Painting and drawing, Städtische Galerie, Altena (together with J. Schramm)
  • 2000: Room structure, Künstlerhaus Hooksiel
  • 2001: Hydrogen bed - works on paper, Herold Gallery, Bremen
  • 2003: De-hatching machine, Galerie im Park, Bremen
  • 2004: In search of Thomas R. Pynchon, Stadtgalerie Kiel
  • 2005: The Rocket Man - A German Superhero, Gerhard-Marcks-Haus , Bremen (cooperation with Norbert Bauer )
  • 2005: Malefiz - or the art of drawing a symmetrical body, Städtische Galerie Bremen
  • 2006: The Rocket Man - A German Superhero, Galerie Schuster, Frankfurt (cooperation with Norbert Bauer)
  • 2007: Südkurve, Kunstverein Bobingen (together with Reinhard Osiander )
  • 2007: The sun rises in the west, Galerie KraskaEckstein, Bremen
  • 2007: Heimat, Städtische Galerie Wertingen
  • 2007: DALLAS and what do I tell my children, Galerie Heiko Michael, Hanover
  • 2007: Under observation, KunstfondsKunstraum, Bonn
  • 2007: DALLAS and what do I tell my children, Galerie im Park, Bremen
  • 2009: Above Us Only Sky, Kunstverein Cuxhaven
  • 2010: BROKDORF, Galerie Schuster, Berlin (cooperation with Norbert Bauer)
  • 2013: 42, X | Y | Z: RAUMPROJEKT of the GAS-station Berlin - gas station for art and impulse , Berlin
Participation in exhibitions
  • 1998, 1999: Large art exhibition, Düsseldorf
  • 2002: Heritage, La Friche, Marseille,
  • 2002: Oboz 1, Zabrodje, Belarus
  • 2005: Northwest Art Prize - The Nominees, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven
  • 2006: artificial turf - substitute bench for feelings, Stadtmuseum Halle , Halle (Saale)
  • 2006: 175 pictures for 175 years, Westfälischer Kunstverein , Münster
  • 2006: Heimspiel, Kunstverein Hannover
  • 2007: As time goes by - 30 years of Bremen sponsorship award, Städtische Galerie, Bremen
  • 2007: Paula's children, Kunsthalle Bremen
  • 2008: Anonymous draftsman No. 8, meinblau eV, Berlin
  • 2008: Nordlichter, Kunstverein Hannover, (cooperation with Norbert Bauer)
  • 2008: It's not easy, Exit Art, New York
  • 2008: BKLYN 111, Brooklyn Artist Gym, Brooklyn, NY
  • 2009: kunstfrühling09, Bremen freight yard (cat.) (Cooperation with Norbert Bauer)
  • 2010: Paula Modersohn-Becker Art Prize, Kunsthalle Worpswede (cat.)
  • 2011: kunstfrühling11, Bremen freight yard (cat.) (Cooperation with Norbert Bauer)
  • 2012: CONSTELLATIONS, Art Prize 2012 in Haus am Kleistpark , Berlin

literature

  • Norbert Bauer, Ralf Tekaat: The rocket man - a German superhero. KE, Bremen, ISBN 978-3-940717-02-3 .
  • Northern Lights - 84th Fall Exhibition. With contributions by Martin Engler et al. Kunstverein Hannover, 2008, ISBN 978-3-9811833-1-3 .
  • paulaskinder: Paula Modersohn-Becker in view of contemporary art production. With contributions by D. Roth and Susanne Hinrichs. Culture and Education Association Ostertor, 2007, ISBN 978-3-936951-097 .
  • As Time Goes By - 30 years of the Bremen Prize for Fine Arts. With texts by Stephan Berg, Joachim Kreibohm et al. Ed. Städtische Galerie and Senator for Culture Bremen. Bremen 2007, ISBN 3-9809465-4-1 .
  • Rainer Beßling : Ralf Tekaat. In: artist art magazine. No. 69, Bremen 2006.
  • Home game - 83rd autumn exhibition. With a foreword by Stephan Berg, an essay by Justin Hoffmann and artist texts by Martin Engler, Jochen Stöckmann, Kristina Tieke. Edited by Stephan Berg, Kunstverein Hannover, ISBN 3-934421-11-3 .
  • Ralf Tekaat - Maleficent or the art of drawing a symmetrical body. With a text by Joachim Kreibohm. Bremen 2005.
  • Art Spring - Cooperations. With contributions by J. Fitschen, J. Kreibohm, G. Mackert, H.-J. Manske , K. Rabus, H. Zech et al. Bremen 2005, ISBN 3-9809465-0-9 .
  • swb Gallery Volume IX. With contributions by Rainer Beßling, Barbara Claassen-Schmal, Katerina Vatsella , Hanne Zech et al. Bremen 2004, ISBN 3-89757-248-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rainer Beßling : Ralf Tekaat. In swb gallery volume IX. Bremen 2004, p. 30
  2. ↑ Michael Wolfson in Shreds of Memory. Hannoversche Allgemeine, July 19, 2007
  3. ↑ Michael Wolfson in Shreds of Memory. Hannoversche Allgemeine, July 19, 2007
  4. ↑ Angela Bachmeier in The Grandpa on the Wall of History. Augsburger Allgemeine, February 7, 2007
  5. ↑ Norbert Bauer / Ralf Tekaat The Rocket Man - A German Superhero , KE Verlag, Bremen 2008
  6. ↑ Northern Lights - 84th autumn exhibition at the Kunstverein Hannover 2008
  7. ↑ up art. newspaper of the Bremen association of visual artists , issue 29, Bremen 2009
personal data
SURNAME Tekaat, Ralf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Bobingen