SHORT INFO
Alexandra Ranner (*1967) lives in Berlin and works in the media of spatial installation, sculpture, film and photography. Her works show surreal spatial structures whose tension lies in the ambivalence between their obvious artificiality and their atmospheric-emotional density. The spatial structures seem to be created by the inner mental states of their inhabitants and protagonists; they are a manifestation of certain mental dispositions in the form of spaces.
Her works have been shown at the 49th Biennale di Venezia, 1st Triennale Yokohama, International Art Exhibition Athens, MuMok Vienna, Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo de Santander y Cantabria, DARE-DARE Centre de diffusion d'art multidisciplinaire de Montréal, Art Basel Statements, De Vleeshal Middelburg, among others. In recent years, she has participated in institutional exhibitions with large-scale works, for example at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, the Hamburger Kunsthalle, the Kunstmuseum Bonn and the Marta Herford. In 2016/17, her works were shown in a solo exhibition at the Georg Kolbe Museum in Berlin. Since 2017, her permanent installation "I've had enough" has been shown in public spaces in Herford.
In addition to her artistic work, she has been a professor at the University of the Arts since 2007, where she teaches fine arts in the architecture course. She studied at the art academies in Lisbon and Munich. Her works have been awarded the HAP-Grieshaber-Prize of the VG-BILD-KUNST, the Bavarian State Prize for the Visual Arts, the City of Munich Prize for Fine Arts and a scholarship from the Karl-Schmitt-Rottluff Foundation.
www.alexandra-ranner.com
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS (selection)
| 2018 | die Hand, das Futter, die Lust, Galerie Mathias Güntner, Hamburg 2016 Karmakollaps, Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin |
| 2014 | Hyperventilirium. Video - Fragments, Kunstverein Göppingen 2013 Galerie Mathias Güntner, Hamburg |
| 2012 | Viva off Festival, Madrid, Galeria Oliva Arauna, Spain |
| 2010 | lur, Voges Gallery, Frankfurt am Main Silencio Súbito, Galeria Oliva Arauna, Madrid, Spain Nebenmeer, Mathias Güntner Gallery, Hamburg |
| 2009 | Still Life with Space, Galerie Friedrich Loock, Berlin, curated by Nicola Graef 2007 Es Demasiado, Galeria Oliva Arauna, Madrid, Spain |
| 2006 | Kunstverein Ruhr, Essen |
| 2005 | De Vleeshal, Middelburg, Netherlands |
| 2004 | Corridor, DARE DARE, Centre de diffusion d ́art de Montréal, Canada |
| 2003 | Galeria Salvador Diaz, Madrid, Spain |
| 2002 | Project Space Gallery Fons Welters, Amsterdam, Netherlands Telegraph, Galerie Voges + Partner, Frankfurt am Main |
| 2001 | Aprèslude, Gallery Six Friedrich Lisa Ungar, Munich Basement, Galeria Carbone.to, Turin, Italy 2000 Statements, Förderkoje Art 31 Basel, Switzerland |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)
| 2022 | Art and Spirituality. Imagining the Extraordinary organized by the BBVA Collection, Palacio de San Nicolás in Bilbao (Spain), curated by Alfonso de la Torre Art and Spirituality. Imagining the Extraordinary organized by the BBVA Collection, Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid (Spain), curated by Alfonso de la Torre |
| 2021 | Emotions (r)out! Glocal Emotions, Motorenhalle Dresden, riesa Pfau |
| 2020 | Sehnsucht und Fall, videos from the Wemhöner Collection, Kunstsaele Berlin, curated by Philipp Bollmann |
| 2019 | FEELINGS - Art and Emotion, Pinakothek der Moderne, Modern Art Collection, Munich In the light of the night - life in the semi-darkness, Museum Marta Herford We Refugees, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela Trompe L'Oeil, Galerie Mathias Güntner, Hamburg Re-Visions, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich |
| 2018 | Radziwill and the Present, Landscape, Technology, Media, Kunsthalle in Emden 2017 Under Construction, Schau Fenster, Berlin |
| 2016 | Pieces of Water, Kunsthalle Göppingen, Göppingen |
| 2015 | Things that happen. And do not happen, Alexander Ochs Private, Berlin MACROCOSMI - Order of other things, Berlin, Bologna NGORO NGORO, on the occasion of the Berlin Gallery Weekend, Lehderstrasse 34, Berlin Aussenhaut und Innensicht, Kunstverein KISS - Schloss Untergröningen, Abtsgmünd/Untergröningen |
| 2013 | HEIMsuchung, Unsichere Räume in der Kunst der Gegenwart, Kunstmuseum Bonn 2012 Lost Places, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg |
| 2011 | Happy Warriors, Mathias Güntner Gallery, Hamburg A la Carte, Galeria Oliva Arauna, Madrid, Spain |
| 2010 | Invisible Shadows - Images of Uncertainty, Museum Marta Herford Focus on Sculpture, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim Colección Norte de Arte contemporaneo del Gobierno de Cantabria, Santander, Spain contraviolencias, Koldo Mitxelena, Donostia - San Sebastian, Spain |
| 2008 | Interior/exterior living in art, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg Modernstarts-Contemporary Art - Pilar Citoler Collection, Cordoba, Spain El Puente de la Vision, Museo de Bellas Artes de Santander, Spain Elsewhere, Acces Artist Run Center, Vancoover, Canada |
| 2006 | Why pictures now?, MUMOK, Vienna, Austria European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany KLF, (in cooperation with Gal. Voges + Partner), New York, USA |
| 2005 | Fractals IV - Death, Palace of the Republic, Berlin Stabile Seitenlage, traveling exhibition of the Kunstfonds Bonn Museum Bochum, Kunsthaus Dresden, Galerie der Künstler Munich, Museum Weserburg Bremen Model Rooms, Städtische Galerie Nordhorn |
| 2004 | Here today, there tomorrow, Kunsthalle Münster Fellbach Small Sculpture Triennial, Fellbach/Stuttgart Young Workshop, Academy of Arts, Berlin |
| 2003 | Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Scholarship Exhibition, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf |
| 2002 | Outlook, International Art Exhibition Athens 2003, Greece Guida, Museum of Contemporary Art, Bolzano, Italy |
| 2001 | 49th Venice Biennale, Arsenale, Venice, Italy 1st International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Yokohama, Japan Archisculptures, Kunstverein Hannover |
COLLECTIONS
MUMOK, Museum of Modern Art Vienna, Austria
Lenbachhaus Munich
Kunsthalle Mannheim
Museo de Bellas Artes de Santander, Spain
Pilar Citoler Collection, Cordoba, Spain
Pinakothek of Modern Art, Munich
IAACC Pablo Serrano, Zaragoza, Spain
MACAM Museu de Arte Contemporânea Armando Martins, Lisbon, Portugal
Wemhöner Collection, Herford, Germany
Centro de Arte Contemporáneo (CAC Malaga), Malaga, Spain
Colección Fundación ARCO, Madrid, Spain