Ruth Hommelsheim

Ruth Hommelsheim (born December 21, 1965 in Göppingen ) is a German artist . She mainly works with the medium of photography.

Life

From 1986 to 1992 Hommelsheim studied photography at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences . She lives in Berlin. In 2007 Ruth Hommelsheim founded and ran the Loris producers' gallery in Berlin together with other artists, with more than 100 exhibitions and numerous talks, lectures and concerts.

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Ruth Hommelsheim goes to the fringes of photography. It transcends a purely documentary approach. In addition to photography, she integrates other media and techniques such as overpainting, drawing and installation into her work. In addition to her many years of artistic research on urbanity, another focus is on working with materials from archives. Hommelsheim's work has been exhibited in Germany, Europe and China.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

• 2017: concrete doubt , Galerie Loris, Berlin * 1998: The dark night of the soul [Jona project] , Studio Kunsthalle Darmstadt
• 2016: Dreamland II , widmertheodoridis, Eschlikon, Switzerland
• 2016: After nature , Raumsechs, Düsseldorf
• 2015 Dreamland , Galerie Loris Berlin
• 2013: After nature , Loris Gallery Berlin
• 2012: Urban Notations [Barbican] , CasperMuellerKneer, London
• 2011: Meetings , Galerie Loris Berlin
• 2007: Preservations , Loris Gallery Berlin

Group exhibitions (selection)

• 2019: Postcard Salon , Jarvis Dooney Galerie, Berlin
• 2018: Landscape and Memory , Wagner + Partner Gallery, Berlin
• 2018: Architecture and Landscape , Raumsechs Gallery, Düsseldorf
• 2014 On the way to the more , D21 Kunstraum Leipzig
• 2014 With good reason , Galerie Widmer & Theodoridis, Eschlikon, Switzerland
• 2013: The Way Things are , Union Gallery, London
• 2013 December exhibition , Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland

Awards (selection)

• 1993–95: Charlotte Prinz Scholarship for Young Art, City of Darmstadt
• 2013: Studio grant Villa Sträuli , Winterthur, Switzerland

Web links

• Homepage of the artist
• Gallery dedicates theodoridis, Winterthur, Switzerland
• Raumsechs Gallery, Düsseldorf
• The artist at Galerie Loris