Tomáš Ruller
Tomáš Ruller (born March 15, 1957 in Brno ) is a Czech performance and multimedia artist .
life and work
Tomáš Ruller studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague from 1976 to 1982 and obtained his master's degree in 1982 with the work “Neither Weapons, Nor Power, Only Art Outlasts Time”, inspired by the astronomer Tycho Brahe . 1983 to 1986 he co-founded the "School of Attention / East - West Study Project" and from 1986 to 1990 of "Black Market International", a group of performance artists . Tomáš Ruller has been Professor of Performance, Video and Multimedia at the Technical University of Brno since 1992 .
Since 1989 Ruller has shown his performances in Israel, Canada, Japan, the USA (also in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco) and at documenta 8 in Kassel.
Awards
- 1990 Pollock-Krasner Foundation , New York
- 1995 Artist in Residence, Atlanta, Georgia
- 1996 Visual Arts Competition, Arts America, Washington
- 1997 ArtsLink Grant, New York
literature
- Performance: Live Art Since 1960 by Rosalee Goldberg , Harry N. Abrams 1998 (English), ISBN 978-0-81094-3-605
- Performance, ritual, process . Handbook of Action Art in Europe, Elisabeth Jappe , Prestel Verlag GmbH + Co, 2000 ISBN 978-3-79131-3-009
Web links
- www.artlist.cz/en / ... - CV, studies, workshops, exhibitions (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tomas Ruller's biography , accessed on August 20, 2015.
- ↑ infr´action 8 Tomas Ruller, Czech Republic accessed on August 20, 2015 (English)
- ↑ live action Tomas Ruller, Czech Republic accessed on August 20, 2015 (English)
- ↑ guangskou live Tomas Ruller, Czech Republic ( Memento of the original from August 4, 2015 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 on August 20, 2015
- ↑ documenta 8 catalog: Volume 1: Essays; Volume 2: Catalog page 307; Volume 3: artist book; Kassel 1987, ISBN 3-925272-13-5 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ruller, Tomáš |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech performance and multimedia artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 15, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brno |