Ralf Ziervogel
Carbon 12 presents the "enfant terrible" of contemporary art, for the first time in our region.
1975 born in Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany
Lives and works in New York City, USA / Berlin, Germany.
Education
Master of Fine Arts (class of Prof. Lothar Baumgarten)
Collections
Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Judith Rothschild Foundation, New York
Deste Foundation, Dakis Joannou, Athen
Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg
Sammlung Olbricht, Essen
Collection Kraus, New York
Videoarchiv Ursula Blickle, Kunsthalle Wien
Sammlung Faber Castell, Stein
Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt am Main
Ralf Ziervogel flirts with the icons and emblems of trash and pop. In many of his video works he ridicules the poses of actions heroes or pop stars. Impersonating most of these himself he also self-ironically questions his own aspirations and those of a generation growing up with role-models as seen on MTV. Many of his works involve an absurd degree of laborious creation: for years he has been winding Sellotape around a role - aiming not for an art award, but for the Guinness Book of Records. His latest works, panoramic drawings full of meticulous detail, come across as the contemporary versions of baroque imagination of the Inferno with an infusion of splatter video and Tarantino. With their enormous size though these drawings cheekily evade comprehension - the drawings hover in suspense between moments of legibility and a dizzying pictorial maelstrom and celebrate an excessive lust for drawing.
Solo Exhibitions (selected)
2010
"In Decay", Carbon 12, Dubai
Ralf Ziervogel, Charim gallery, Vienna/Austria
"Loose Fit", Landesgartenschau 2010, Sachsen - Anhalt, Germany
2009
"Young German Art", Galerie Arndt und Partner, Berlin
2008
"Zeichnungen", Kunstverein Ulm, Ulm, Germany
"Gruss aus Clausthal-Zellerfeld", Kunstverein Heilbronn, Heilbronn
"Equilibrits", Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2007
"Equilibrium", Galerie Six Friedrich Lisa Ungar, Munich
"Description and Image- Times Rias", Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck, Austria
"FOCUS: Ralf Ziervogel", The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
2006
"Mamaterial", Figge von Rosen, Cologne
2005
"Ralf Ziervogel Morlok", Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin