Stephan Runge (artist, 1947)

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Stephan Runge  (* 1947 in Barkhausen, Porta Westfalica ) is a German artist. His oeuvre includes painting, drawing, object, installation, photography and music. He lives and works in Düsseldorf and Cologne.

life and work

From 1966 to 1973 Stephan Runge studied at the  Art Academy in Düsseldorf  with  Joseph Beuys , who appointed him his master class. Runge works with archaic systems of signs and color codes that he paints on glasses, mirrors, cloths and paper. When processing these different material carriers with acrylic, oil, pigments, watercolor and ink, he uses a technique that he draws from his experience with photochemical processes has developed. In his exhibitions, he combines his sculptural works, consisting of  objets trouvés , iron, wood or stone, with painting, drawing or slide projection in a site-specific manner. He finds forms, forces and energies in nature, which he transfers to his materials.

Runge had his first solo exhibition in 1975 at the Erhard Klein gallery in Bonn. Many individual and group exhibitions in nationally and internationally renowned galleries and museums followed. Between 1989 and 1993 he stayed in Japan and produced large-format works on handmade paper and transparent silks. At documenta IX in 1992 he showed the works “Fuchs” (1982) and “Sky” (1992). In 1993 he took part in the exchange program for artists of the Osaka Prefecture, Japan (Art-Ex) and received the special prize of the Osaka Triennale '93 for his work "Glory Sun of Death". Between 2005 and 2007 the seven-part painting cycle “The Battle of Baghdad” was created in his studio in Düsseldorf. Runge's works can be assigned to  individual mythologies  .

He assisted  Sigmar Polke  in three exhibitions. 1986: "Athanor", German Pavilion, XLII. Venice Biennale. Production of the mural in the conche of the pavilion with hydrosensitive pigments, which, depending on the humidity, reacted with a color change between pink and blue tones; 1988: ARC, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. “Large 'wall painting' on a convex black background, executed in colorless, thermosensitive 'paint'” 1990: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Monochrome painting of the wall niches in the museum's skylight room with the color pigments malachite, vermilion, lapis lazuli, realgar.

Awards and grants

  • 1982 Art Fund Bonn Foundation, work grant
  • 1993 Artist-in-Residence, "Art Ex", Osaka, Japan
  • 1993 "Special Prize of the International Triennial Competition of Painting" Osaka, Japan

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1975 Erhard Klein Gallery, Bonn 
  • 1977 "teit es eshol", Studio Oppenheim, Cologne 
  • 1980   Oxymoron , towels and glasses , Krefelder Kunstverein
  • 1981  Nommo , Galerie Ha.Jo. Müller, Cologne 
  • 1983 Cloths , Toni Gerber Gallery, Bern 
  • 1985 City Art Museum Bonn and Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent 
  • 1988 Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, Denmark
  • 1989   Eisenraum , Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf
  • 1990 Claudine Papillon Gallery, Paris
  • 1991 State Art Gallery Baden-Baden
  • 1992 Art Association in the Fridericianum, Kassel
  • 1993 "Silk Flags" 141, Sendai, Japan
  • 1995 Zeitkunstgalerie, Kitzbühel, Austria
  • 1997 "The Tamed Dragon", Erhard Klein Gallery, Bad Münstereifel
  • 2004 “and now and then”, Erhard Klein Gallery, Bad Münstereifel
  • 2007 “Stephan Runge, Pictures”, Gallery Kiki Maier-Hahn, Düsseldorf 

Participation in exhibitions (selection)

  • 1969 "Intermedia", Heidelberg 
  • 1972 "Scene Rhein-Ruhr", Museum Folkwang, Essen (with Bruno Demattio)
  • 1973 “Between 7”, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
  • 1979 “Highlights. An inventory of current art in the Rhineland ”, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn 
  • 1980 “Art exhibitions Gutenbergstr. 62 a “, Max Hetzler Gallery, Stuttgart
  • 1981 "Bildwechsel", Akademie der Künste, Berlin
  • 1984 “Aperto 84”, 41st Venice Biennale
  • 1987 “Focus Düsseldorf. Joseph Beuys, the Academy, the general awakening. 1962-1987 ”, Art Museum Ehrenhof, Düsseldorf 
  • 1988 "My time, my predator", Kunstpalast Düsseldorf
  • 1989 "International Paper Art Exhibition", Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts, Tokyo, Japan
  • 1990 The Paper Museum, Imadate, Japan  
  • 1991 "Ten Years of Art Fund", Bonner Kunstverein
  • 1992 documenta IX, Kassel 
  • 1996 “The Toni Gerber Collection in the Kunstmuseum Bern. Second part ”, Kunstmuseum Bern
  • 2005 “Keeping yourself happy”, Kunstmuseum Bonn
  • 2017 “Singular / Plural - Collaborations in the Post-Pop-Polit-Arena”, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf

Catalogs (selection)

  • Keeping yourself happy - art from the 70s from the Ingrid Oppenheim donation in the Bonn Art Museum. Cologne, 2005. pp. 80-82.
  • Art Fund: Ten Years. Kunstfonds eV in cooperation with the Bonner Kunstverein [publisher]. Cologne 1991. pp. 78-79.
  • Toni Gerber collection in the Kunstmuseum Bern. Second part. [26. June 18 - August 18, 1996]. Bern, 1996. p. 164.
  • Highlights, review Oppenheim Studio Cologne 1973 to 1979, Städtisches Kunstmuseum Bonn. Bonn, 1981, p. 80 f.
  • Treibhaus, Düsseldorf Art Museum. Düsseldorf, 1981, no p.
  • Scenes of folk art, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart. Stuttgart, 1981. p. 1.18.
  • Image change. New painting from Germany. Academy of Arts, Berlin. Berlin 1981, pp. 63, 76 f.

Works in public collections

Germany

  • Ministry of Culture of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Municipal Art Museum, Düsseldorf
  • Art Museum Bonn
  • Collection Oppenheim in the Kunstmuseum Bonn

Belgium

  • Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst (MuHKA), Ghent
  • SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent 

Denmark

  • Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg (Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum)

Japan

  • National Museum of Art, Osaka

Korea

  • Daegu Art Museum, Daegu

Switzerland

  • Toni Gerber collection in the Kunstmuseum Bern

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stephan Runge . With an introduction by Alfred M. Fischer and Jan Hoet. In: Exhibition catalog, City Art Museum Bonn, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Gent . 1500th edition. Bonn 1985.
  2. ↑ POLKE ET FRIENDS. Gaspelhof in the 70s. Ed. by STAHLSPLITTER. Composed & directed by (Stephan) Runge. Cologne 2011. Four audio CDs with a text sheet & a photo by Katharina Sieverding - Edition: 80 copies + 20 copies ap [1]
  3. ↑ Digital art and culture archive (d: kult). Retrieved August 27, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Angelika Beckmann: The artist as a catalyst . Ed .: Jochen Poetter, State Art Gallery Baden-Baden. Exhibition catalog. Baden-Baden 1991.
  5. ↑ Else Bülow: Stephan Runge. Face. Aasyn. Ed .: Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum. 1200th edition. Exhibition catalog. Aalborg, Denmark 1988, ISBN 87-88307-10-7 .
  6. ↑ a b Jochen Poetter: Flap of the butterfly's wings - Stephan Runge's cautious impulses . Ed .: Poetter, Jochen, State Art Gallery Baden-Baden. Exhibition catalog. Baden-Baden 1991.
  7. ↑ [2]
  8. ^ Jan Hoet: documenta as a motor . In: Dieter Bechtloff (Ed.): Kunstforum International . tape 119 . Cologne 1991, p. 386, 496 .
  9. ^ Osaka Triennale '93: International Triennial Competition of Painting, Osaka 1993. Accessed August 20, 2017 .
  10. ↑ [3]
  11. ↑ [4]
  12. ↑ Bice Curiger: Sigmar Polke's thermosensitive mural in the ARC, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris . In: Peter Blum, Jacqueline Burckhardt, Bice Curiger, Dieter von Grafenried, Walter Keller (eds.): Parquet . No. 18 . Parkett-Verlag, Zurich 1988, p. 160-161 .
  13. ↑ Annelie Pohlen: Stephan Runge . In: Dieter Bechtloff (Ed.): Kunstforum International . tape 80 . Cologne 1985, p. 308 .
  14. ↑ Johannes Meinhardt: Stephan Runge. Exhibitions: Baden-Baden . In: Dieter Bechtloff (Ed.): Kunstforum International . tape 115 . Cologne 1991, p. 357 .
  15. ↑ singular / plural. Collaborations in the Post-Pop-Polit-Arena, 08.07. - 01.10.2017, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf. Retrieved August 14, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Runge, Stephan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Barkhausen, Porta Westfalica