Ralf Weißleder

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Ralf Weißleder (* 1962 in Hamburg ) is a German contemporary artist .

life and work

Weißleder studied art history and ethnology at the University of Hamburg from 1981 to 1986 and visual communication and film at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg from 1982 to 1992 . In addition to his own photographic work, Ralf Weißleder works with his own archive of images collected over the years. Based on iconographic investigations of this material, u. a. from popular photography, initially works a. a. on expressive gestures or body parts of pin-ups, in later years thematic picture series or systems of order.

From 2002, Weißleder had a teaching position for free art (class for media art) at the Muthesius University in Kiel. Ralf Weißleder lives and works in Hamburg.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1991 Jane Birkin , Münzstrasse 10, Hamburg
  • 1995 Ralf Weißleders. Fotográfijas. Hamburg , Latvijas Fotográfijas Muzejs, Ríga
  • 1997 Photographs , Art Association on Prenzlauer Berg (KAP), Berlin
  • 2000 because of kunstwegen , Städtische Galerie Nordhorn
  • 2006 Ralf Weißleder , Gallery for Landscape Art, Hamburg
  • 2010 Figure 3. The preferred 'Play' icon , Galerie für Landschaftskunst, Hamburg

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Monopol-Magazin, exhibition calendar 2010, accessed on February 1, 2012  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.monopol-magazin.de  
  2. tortuga.de website of the artist, accessed on February 1, 2012