short vita

Alexandra Ranner is an artist working in the mediums of spatial installations, sculpture, film and photography. In addition to her own practice, since 2007 she is also Professor at the University of the Arts Berlin where she teaches fine arts in the architecture department. She studied at the art academies in Lisbon and Munich. Her works have been distinguished with the HAP-Grieshaber-Award from the VG-BILD-KUNST, the Bavarian Award for Fine Arts, the Munich Award for Fine Arts as well as a fellowship from the Karl-Schmitt-Rottluff Foundation.

Alexandra Ranners work deals with the emotional fault lines of modern times and presents surreal spatial constructs whose tension exists in the ambivalence between their conspicuous artificiality and their atmospheric-emotional density. The constructs are seemingly conceived through the inner emotional conditions of their residents and protagonists; they are a manifestation of certain mental dispositions in the form of spaces.

Links

Personal Website

Chair for Plastic and Spatial Representation for Architects

Archive Plastic and Spatial Representation for Architects

Exhibitions

Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions

2000 Statements, Förderkoje, Art 31 Basel    2001 49. Biennale di Venezia, Arsenale, Venedig  |  1st Yokohama Triennale  |  Archisculptures, Kunstverein Hannover    2002 Guida, Museion – Museum of modern and contemporary art, Bozen    2003 Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Stipendium Ausstellung, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf  |  Outlook – International Art Exhibition Athens    2004 Corridor, DARE-DARE centre de diffusion d’art multidisciplinaire de Montréal  |  Heute hier, morgen dort, Kunsthalle Münster    2005 Vleeshal – Center for Contemporary Art, Middelburg  |  Stabile Seitenlage, Wanderausstellung der Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn in den Museen: Kunstmuseum Bochum, Galerie der Künstler, München, Kunsthaus Dresden, Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen    2006 Ich habe genug, Kunstverein Ruhr, Essen  |  Why Pictures Now, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (mumok), Wien    2008 Interieur / Exterieur, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg  |  El Puente de la Visión, Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo de Santander y Cantabria (MAS), Santander    2010 Unsichtbare Schatten – Bilder der Verunsicherung, Marta Herford    2012 Lost Places, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg    2013 HEIMsuchung – Unsichere Räume in der Kunst der Gegenwart, Kunstmuseum Bonn    2014 Hyperventilirium, Kunstverein/Kunsthalle Göppingen  |  Einblicke, Sammlung Wemhöner, Osramhöfe, Berlin    2016/17 Karmakollaps, Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin   |  Pieces of Water, Kunsthalle Göppingen

Committees

2015 Committee of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, Committee Karl Schmidt Rottluff Stipendium, Berlin Senate Administration, Committee for the art-in-architecture contest "Ernst Busch“ Schauspielkunst    2011-2013 Stiftung Kunstfonds support programme 2002-2005 QUIVID -  Committee for art in architecture and public spaces, Munich

Current Projects

2017 Re-opening of the installation Ich habe genug at its new location next to the Johanniskirche in Herford, student project Paradiesgarten, Lutherstadt Wittenberg

Publications

Publications by Alexandra Ranner

Ranner, Alexandra, Karmakollaps, Wien: Verlag für moderne Kunst 2016. With texts by Dr. Stephan Berg, Rainer Beßling, Nicola Graef, Dr. Julia Wallner

Ranner, Alexandra / Meyer, Dörte, Horizontale Reaktion, Berlin: UdK Verlag 2016. With texts by Alexandra Ranner: Themes, Appropriation of Space

Texts about Alexandra Ranner

„Alexandra Ranner“. In: Kunstmuseum Bonn (Ed.) HEIMsuchung – Unsichere Räume in der Kunst der Gegenwart. Irene Horn, 237 - 246, Köln: Wienand Verlag, 2013. „Alexandra Ranner“. In: Hamburger Kunsthalle (Ed.). Lost Places – Orte der Photographie. Dagrun Hintze, 64 - 69, Heidelberg: Kehrer, 2012. „Alexandra Ranner“ in: Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst. Ausgabe 95/ Heft 19. Rainer Bessling, München: ZEIT Kunstverlag, 2011 „Alexandra Ranner“. In: Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea (Ed.). Contraviolencias. Piedad Solans, 96-99, San Sebastian, 2010 „Alexandra Ranner“. In: Museum Marta Herford. Unsichtbare Schatten – Bilder der Verunsicherung. Friederike Fast/Michael Kröger/Thomas Niemeyer, 17 und 154 - 157, Herford, 2010 „Alexandra Ranner“. In: Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (Ed.). Interieur / Exterieur, Wohnen in der Kunst. Dr. Annelie Lütgens, 133-134, Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2008. „Alexandra Ranner“. In: Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (Ed.). Why Pictures Now – Fotografie, Film, Video von den 1970ern bis heute. Edelbert Köb, 144-145, Nürnberg: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2006. „Alexandra Ranner“. In: artist Kunstmagazin 2/2006, Rainer Bessling, 24 - 27 „De la realidad reemplazado“ in: art.es - International Contempory art, 2/2004, Andrés Santana, 12-17. „Alexandra Ranner“. In: Kunstverein Hannover (Ed.). Archisculptures - Über die Beziehung zwischen Architektur, Skulptur und Modell. Dr. Stephan Berg, 60-70, Hannover, 2001. „Alexandra Ranner“. In: Städtische Galerie Nordhorn (Ed.). Modellräume. Roland Nachtigäller/Thomas Niemeyer, 56-60, Nordhorn, 2001.