Alexandra Ranner

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 formations whose tension lies in the ambivalence between their unmistakable 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 49. 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. 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 the Promotion of 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, Galerie Mathias Güntner, 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 Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Telegraph, Galerie Voges + Partner, Frankfurt am Main
2001 Aprèslude, Galerie 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, Sammlung Moderne Kunst, Munich
Im Licht der Nacht - Vom Leben im Halbdunkel, 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. Und nicht passieren, Alexander Ochs Private, Berlin
MACROCOSMI - Ordnung anderer Dinge, Berlin, Bologna
NGORO NGORO, on the occasion of 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, Galerie Mathias Güntner, Hamburg
A la Carte, Galeria Oliva Arauna, Madrid, Spain
2010 Invisible Shadows - Images of Uncertainty, Museum Marta Herford
Blickpunkt Skultptur, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim
Colección Norte de Arte contemporaneo del Gobierno de Cantabria, Santander, Spain contraviolencias, Koldo Mitxelena, Donostia - San Sebastian, Spain
2008 Interieur/Exterieur-Wohnen in der Kunst, 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 Centre, Vancoover, Canada
2006 Why pictures now?, MUMOK, Vienna, Austria
European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück
KLF, (in collaboration with Gal. Voges + Partner), New York, USA
2005 Fractals IV - Death, Palast der Republik, Berlin
Stabile Seitenlage, traveling exhibition of the Kunstfonds Bonn
Museum Bochum, Kunsthaus Dresden, Galerie der Künstler München, Museum Weserburg Bremen
Modellräume, Städtische Galerie Nordhorn
2004 Here today, there tomorrow, Kunsthalle Münster
Fellbach Kleinplastik-Triennale, Fellbach/Stuttgart
Junge Werkstatt, Akademie der Künste, 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
1. 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 der Moderne, 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