Artists
Bernd Ribbeck Born in 1974 in Cologne | Lives and works in Berlin
Bernd Ribbeck’s modestly formatted paintings open up a fascinating depth and aura of color and form. The intimacy of his paintings is substantiated by a palette dominated by dark tones and a multilayered complexity in the areas of color.
The application of acrylic paint on fiberboard, the sanding of the surface, and the scoring with color ballpoint pens and pigmented markers create a tension between blurred, open areas and geometric lines. The symmetrically arranged formations, constrained by the picture format, speak of something beyond their bounds solely through an inner lumination that Ribbeck achieves through stark contrasts and the use of white, yellow, and orange tones.
Bernd Ribbeck rediscovers the aesthetic strategies of Modernism with these dense pictures. He cites the imagery of an outsider like Swedish theosophist Helma af Klint and the deconstructive works of Feininger or Delaunay. Ribbeck refers to other systems of thought and belief by incorporating the imagery of the past, presenting his hermetic work as representative of other mindsets.
Education
2000 | Kunstakademie Düsseldorf |
1995–1999 |
Hochschule der Künste, Berlin Akademie der bildenden Künste, Munich Kunstakademie Düsseldorf |
1994–1995 | Universität zu Cologne |
Solo exhibitions (selection)
2012 |
Alison Jacques Gallery, London Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich |
2010 |
Galerie Kamm, Berlin Ben Kaufmann, Berlin (with Alois Corbaz) |
2009 |
Harris Liebermann, New York Alison Jacques Gallery, London Ich und Du, Oldenburger Kunstverein (with Claudia Wieser), Oldenburg |
Group exhibitions (selection)
2011 | The Cosmos of Rudolf Steiner, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart |
2010 | Rudolf Steiner & Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg |
2009 | Slow Paintings, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen |
2008 | Manifesta 7, Trentino, Südtirol, Italy |
2007 | Compilation III, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf |