Ruth Biller, Sonja in Slowmotion, 2014, Oil on canvas, 100h x 110w cm
Ruth Biller, Sonja in Slowmotion, 2014, Oil on canvas, 100h x 110w cm
About
Ruth Biller was born in Singen, Germany in 1959 and continued her education in Stuttgart at the Visual Arts Academy between 1983-1989 and completed her masters in Visual Arts. From 1985 on, photography and film had an impact on her and she started to articulate the concepts of her paintings in the form of print-and-collage sequences, her inspiration springing from depictions of spaces and characters of the baroque. After a stay in Paris (1991), which formed part of a project for the DAAD during the Country- postgraduate- grant Baden Württemberg, she set up national and inter-national exhibitions of her paintings in museums, art associations and galleries. In 1994, she received a grant from the Arts Foundation of Baden-Württemberg. In Atelierhaus Nordbahnhofstraße Stuttgart, she established an experimental art platform (op-nord). Between 1989 and 1999, Ruth Biller teaches six years at the Hochschule Pforzheim as a freelance lecturer in painting and drawing in the field of design/art and design sciences. During a one-year Artist-in-Residence of the Foundation Starke, Berlin – Grunewald, she took up inspiration in the picturesque castle and gardens of Potsdam in 2003. Since 2004 (Goethe Institut, Istanbul) she carried out exhibitions and projects as well as stays in Istanbul and on Knidos, Turkey. In 2015 she directed, filmed and produced the movie “MUSIKA” together with Frank Leher in Berlin-Lichtenberg.
In her paintings, Biller uses the human body, nature, rich colours and focuses on the notion of space. The artist represents the physical bodies and spaces as layered, variable forms using rich colours and architectural details combined with visual cut-views which are obtained by travelling through museums, churches, castles and public spaces. In her work, rhythmical picture series appear on canvas and paper by way of color layerings and spacial overlappings. Thus, she confronts the movable scenery of sensual ornaments with figurative fragments by means of choreographically precise film cuts. In Ruth Biller`s paintings a language of barock forms and an opulance of colors meet up with blunt realism. The free form process of picture genesis – without the use of preliminary drawings – is a necessary stipulation for creating intense paintings out of the very movement of creation without relying on cliches of gestulation for support. Ruth Biller acts in the roll of her own dramatic producer, hinting at serielle film frames. She transforms the subjects of her work -collected documents as well as personal photographs – during the preliminary stages of the artistic process by means of a number of various experiments. She currently lives and works in Germany.
About
Ruth Biller was born in Singen, Germany in 1959 and continued her education in Stuttgart at the Visual Arts Academy between 1983-1989 and completed her masters in Visual Arts. From 1985 on, photography and film had an impact on her and she started to articulate the concepts of her paintings in the form of print-and-collage sequences, her inspiration springing from depictions of spaces and characters of the baroque. After a stay in Paris (1991), which formed part of a project for the DAAD during the Country- postgraduate- grant Baden Württemberg, she set up national and inter-national exhibitions of her paintings in museums, art associations and galleries. In 1994, she received a grant from the Arts Foundation of Baden-Württemberg. In Atelierhaus Nordbahnhofstraße Stuttgart, she established an experimental art platform (op-nord). Between 1989 and 1999, Ruth Biller teaches six years at the Hochschule Pforzheim as a freelance lecturer in painting and drawing in the field of design/art and design sciences. During a one-year Artist-in-Residence of the Foundation Starke, Berlin – Grunewald, she took up inspiration in the picturesque castle and gardens of Potsdam in 2003. Since 2004 (Goethe Institut, Istanbul) she carried out exhibitions and projects as well as stays in Istanbul and on Knidos, Turkey. In 2015 she directed, filmed and produced the movie “MUSIKA” together with Frank Leher in Berlin-Lichtenberg.
In her paintings, Biller uses the human body, nature, rich colours and focuses on the notion of space. The artist represents the physical bodies and spaces as layered, variable forms using rich colours and architectural details combined with visual cut-views which are obtained by travelling through museums, churches, castles and public spaces. In her work, rhythmical picture series appear on canvas and paper by way of color layerings and spacial overlappings. Thus, she confronts the movable scenery of sensual ornaments with figurative fragments by means of choreographically precise film cuts. In Ruth Biller`s paintings a language of barock forms and an opulance of colors meet up with blunt realism. The free form process of picture genesis – without the use of preliminary drawings – is a necessary stipulation for creating intense paintings out of the very movement of creation without relying on cliches of gestulation for support. Ruth Biller acts in the roll of her own dramatic producer, hinting at serielle film frames. She transforms the subjects of her work -collected documents as well as personal photographs – during the preliminary stages of the artistic process by means of a number of various experiments. She currently lives and works in Germany.
| 2020 | “Bilderwanderungen”, Galerie im Schlosspavillion, Ismaning, Germany |
| 2017 | “Storyteller – VisaVis”, Anna Laudel, Istanbul, Turkey „Timecodes “, Technologiepark Tübingen-Reutlingen, Germany |
| 2016 | “MUSIKA“, Film von Ruth Biller, rk-Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin-Lichtenberg, Germany |
| 2015 | “NEO Dekalypse“, Malerei, Galerie Blond&Blond Contemporary, Berlin-Mitte, Germany |
| 2014 | „Her Yerde/Everywhere“, Anna Laudel (formerly ART350), Istanbul, Turkey |
| 2013 | „Der weite Blick“, Malerei mit Mahmut Celayir, rk-Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin, Germany |
| 2012 | „Transfigurative“, Anna Laudel (formerly ART350), Istanbul, Turkey |
| 2011 | Laterna Magica, EnBW Showroom, Berlin, Germany Hero of Art, Drawings, at Achim Kubinski, Berlin, Germany |
| 2010 | „Magdalena ungewollt“, Proarte, Art Found Ulm, with Gitta Seiler, Ulm, Germany „Miroir, Linienverzweiger“, Berlin-Lichtenberg, Public-Installation, Germany |
| 2009 | „Eingegrenzt und Uferlos“, Art Found Radolfzell, with F. Kühner, Radolfzell, Germany |
| 2007 | “Passage of Time”, Gallery Lecoq, Berlin, Germany Berliner Liste, Solo Exhibition at the Fair for Contemporary Art, Berlin, presented by Gallery Kunst im Heppächer, Germany „Spring“, eigen.art, Space for Art, Stuttgart, Germany |
| 2006 | „Körper-Gärten“, Südwestbank Stuttgart, Germany Jardins Corporels, Stiftung Starke, Berlin, Germany “Body and Space”, Gallery Kränzl, Gaienhofen-Horn, Germany German Embassy, Rome, Curator: Dr.Chiara Marzi. Gallery artMbassy, Italy |
| 2004 | Galerie am Schloss, Ansbach, Germany |
| 2002 | „Bild wie Schrift“, Graphische Sammlung, University Tübingen, Germany „Form follows Space”, Gallery at Pfleghof, Tübingen, Germany “The Body Breaks the Sun-The Sun Breaks the Body”, Stiftung Starke, Berlin, Germany “Figurationen“, Gallery Goppelsröder, Ausstellungsraum Stütz, Bretten, Germany |
| 2000 | „Lichtfall“,12. Internat. Festival , Städt. Wessenberg-Gallery, Konstanz, Germany „Simultaneous Motion“, Städtische Galerie Ostfildern, Ruit, Germany |
| 1999 | „Scheinbar einen Raum in den blossen Körper setzen“, Akademie der Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Weingarten, Germany |
| 1998 | „Inventary of Light“, Kulturhalle Remchingen, Germany |
| 1997 | „Touching Proximity at a distance”, Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie, Georgium, Dessau, Germany Marburger Kunstverein, Marburg/Lahn, Germany |
| 1996 | „Metamorphoses-Transformations“, Gallery Armin Duppel, Stuttgart, Germany „Period Eye“, Galerie der Stadt Sindelfingen, Maichingen, Germany |
| 1993 | “Another Way of Seeing”, Gallery Andreas Binder, München, Germany |
| 1990 | „Bildwelten“, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany |
| 1989 | Wiensowski & Harbord, Berlin, Germany KX-Gallery, Hamburg, Germany |
| 1988 | “Hunters & Collectors”, Galerie Rainer Wehr, Stuttgart, Germany |
| 2020 | “Wie Blüten gehen Gedanken auf“, Schlichtenmaier, Schloß Dätzingen, Germany |
| 2019 | „Housewarming“, Anna Laudel, Düsseldorf, Germany „Es verschlägt mir den Atem“, GROUP GLOBAL 2000, Berlin, Germany „30 Jahre Stiftung Starke“, Stiftung Starke, Berlin, Germany „The X Part1“, Whiteconcepts Gallery, Berlin, Germany |
| 2018 | HEIM_SPIEL_Lichtenberg, Frauenmuseum Berlin in der rk-Galerie, kommunale Galerie Berlin, Germany „30 Jahre Stiftung Starke“, Stiftung Starke, Berlin, Germany |
| 2017 | „MUSIKA“, Film, Konzert, Podiumsdiskussion, Studio Bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany |
| 2016 | „ A Bit of Everything”, Anna Laudel (formerly ART 350), Istanbul, Turkey „Portobello Film Festival 2016“, MUSIKA, Dokumentarfilm, London, UK |
| 2015 | „YAZ“, Anna Laudel (formerly ART 350), Istanbul, Turkey „Nach der Verzweiflung beginnt das wirkliche Leben“, Galerie Blond&Blond Contemporary, Berlin, Germany “Musika“, Audiovisuelles Filmprojekt gefördert vom Projektkulturfonds Berlin, Germany |
| 2013 | “YAZ“, Anna Laudel (formerly ART350), Istanbul, Turkey “Barock reloaded“, Malerei, Städt. Wessenberg-Galerie, Konstanz |
| 2012 | “Schein und Wirklichkeit“, Kallmann-Museum, Ismaning, München, Germany “7.Berlin-Biennale“, Kunstwerke Berlin, Occupy Biennale, Berlin, Germany “Rückkehr der Heimat“, Druckgraphik, Atelier Soldina, Kolonie Wedding, Berlin, Germany UKKSA Akademi, Residence, Knidos, Turkey |
| 2011 | The Sketchbook-Project 2011, touring exhibition, USA |
| 2010 | 30 Years, Gallery Rainer Wehr, Stuttgart, Germany DSV Kunstkontor with Edition S 35/2010, Stuttgart, Germany Berliner Wirtschaftsgespräche, Berlin-Adlershof, Germany |
| 2009 | Limitiert, Wessenberg-Gallery, Städt. Museen, Konstanz, Germany Kleinformate, Gallery artMbassy, Berlin, Germany Gallery artMbassy, Berlin, Germany Stiftung Starke, Berlin, Germany |
| 2008 | Scope Miami, Curator:Jane Hart, USA, Gallery artMbassy Kunstverein Traunstein, Traunstein, Germany Mostra Giostra, Studio Marzi, artMbassy, Rome, Italy Museum Kesselhaus, Berlin-Lichtenberg, Germany Artificial Nature, Gallery Kunst im Heppächer, Esslingen, Germany |
| 2007 | Wessenberg-Gallery, Konstanz, Germany Galerie artMbassy Rome, Italy |
| 2006 | Eingesehen, Kunstverein Singen im Städtisches Kunstmuseum, Germany Vorfahrt, internationales Kunstprojekt, Stuttgart |
| 2005 | Gallery Kränzl, Gaienhofen-Horn, Germany |
| 2004 | Eduart Mörike touring exhibition, Kornhaus Kirchheim u.Teck-Hällisch Fränkisches Museum Schwäbisch Hall, Germany Stiftung Starke, Berlin, Germany Roads and Roots, Kunst im Heppächer, Esslingen, Germany Passagen, Goethe-Institut Istanbul, Türkey |
| 2003 | Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany Stiftung Starke, Berlin, Germany |
| 2001 | OP-Nord, Project-room, Stuttgart, Germany Critics, Stiftung Starke,(Curator: Ingeborg Wiensowski, Spiegel-Kultur)Berlin, Germany Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany |
| 2000 | Wiensowski & Harbord, Berlin, Germany Wessenberg-Gallery, Konstanz, Germany |
| 1999 | Idylle, Gallery Vayhinger, Radolfzell, Germany International graphic-competition, Bolzano, Italy Art-Transit, Petrosadowsk, Karelia, Russla |
| 1998 | Revolution XS, Künstlerhaus Karlsruhe, Kunstverein Neckar-Odenwald, Germany |
| 1997 | Gallery Vayhinger, Radolfzell, Germany |
| 1996 | Gallery Armin Duppel, Stuttgart, Germany |
| 1995 | Erfreuen und Belehren, Graphische Sammlung, Stadtmuseum, Tübingen, Germany |
| 1994 | Städtisches Kunstmuseum, Singen, Germany |
| 1993 | Saar-Ferngas-Förderpreis, Saarlandmuseum, Saarbrücken, Germany |
| 1992 | Galerie unterm Turm, Stuttgart, Germany |
| 1990 | Berlin März 90, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany Berlin März 90, Wiensowski & Harbord, Berlin, Germany Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany |
| 1989 | Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany Pastell, Gallery Rainer Wehr, Stuttgart, Germany |
| 1988 | Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany |
| 1987 | Handzeichnung, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Germany Alpirsbacher Gallery, Alpirsbach, Germany Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany |
| 2020 | “Bilderwanderungen”, Galerie im Schlosspavillion, Ismaning, Germany |
| 2017 | “Storyteller – VisaVis”, Anna Laudel, Istanbul, Turkey „Timecodes “, Technologiepark Tübingen-Reutlingen, Germany |
| 2016 | “MUSIKA“, Film von Ruth Biller, rk-Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin-Lichtenberg, Germany |
| 2015 | “NEO Dekalypse“, Malerei, Galerie Blond&Blond Contemporary, Berlin-Mitte, Germany |
| 2014 | „Her Yerde/Everywhere“, Anna Laudel (formerly ART350), Istanbul, Turkey |
| 2013 | „Der weite Blick“, Malerei mit Mahmut Celayir, rk-Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin, Germany |
| 2012 | „Transfigurative“, Anna Laudel (formerly ART350), Istanbul, Turkey |
| 2011 | Laterna Magica, EnBW Showroom, Berlin, Germany Hero of Art, Drawings, at Achim Kubinski, Berlin, Germany |
| 2010 | „Magdalena ungewollt“, Proarte, Art Found Ulm, with Gitta Seiler, Ulm, Germany „Miroir, Linienverzweiger“, Berlin-Lichtenberg, Public-Installation, Germany |
| 2009 | „Eingegrenzt und Uferlos“, Art Found Radolfzell, with F. Kühner, Radolfzell, Germany |
| 2007 | “Passage of Time”, Gallery Lecoq, Berlin, Germany Berliner Liste, Solo Exhibition at the Fair for Contemporary Art, Berlin, presented by Gallery Kunst im Heppächer, Germany „Spring“, eigen.art, Space for Art, Stuttgart, Germany |
| 2006 | „Körper-Gärten“, Südwestbank Stuttgart, Germany Jardins Corporels, Stiftung Starke, Berlin, Germany “Body and Space”, Gallery Kränzl, Gaienhofen-Horn, Germany German Embassy, Rome, Curator: Dr.Chiara Marzi. Gallery artMbassy, Italy |
| 2004 | Galerie am Schloss, Ansbach, Germany |
| 2002 | „Bild wie Schrift“, Graphische Sammlung, University Tübingen, Germany „Form follows Space”, Gallery at Pfleghof, Tübingen, Germany “The Body Breaks the Sun-The Sun Breaks the Body”, Stiftung Starke, Berlin, Germany “Figurationen“, Gallery Goppelsröder, Ausstellungsraum Stütz, Bretten, Germany |
| 2000 | „Lichtfall“,12. Internat. Festival , Städt. Wessenberg-Gallery, Konstanz, Germany „Simultaneous Motion“, Städtische Galerie Ostfildern, Ruit, Germany |
| 1999 | „Scheinbar einen Raum in den blossen Körper setzen“, Akademie der Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Weingarten, Germany |
| 1998 | „Inventary of Light“, Kulturhalle Remchingen, Germany |
| 1997 | „Touching Proximity at a distance”, Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie, Georgium, Dessau, Germany Marburger Kunstverein, Marburg/Lahn, Germany |
| 1996 | „Metamorphoses-Transformations“, Gallery Armin Duppel, Stuttgart, Germany „Period Eye“, Galerie der Stadt Sindelfingen, Maichingen, Germany |
| 1993 | “Another Way of Seeing”, Gallery Andreas Binder, München, Germany |
| 1990 | „Bildwelten“, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany |
| 1989 | Wiensowski & Harbord, Berlin, Germany KX-Gallery, Hamburg, Germany |
| 1988 | “Hunters & Collectors”, Galerie Rainer Wehr, Stuttgart, Germany |
| 2020 | “Wie Blüten gehen Gedanken auf“, Schlichtenmaier, Schloß Dätzingen, Germany |
| 2019 | „Housewarming“, Anna Laudel, Düsseldorf, Germany „Es verschlägt mir den Atem“, GROUP GLOBAL 2000, Berlin, Germany „30 Jahre Stiftung Starke“, Stiftung Starke, Berlin, Germany „The X Part1“, Whiteconcepts Gallery, Berlin, Germany |
| 2018 | HEIM_SPIEL_Lichtenberg, Frauenmuseum Berlin in der rk-Galerie, kommunale Galerie Berlin, Germany „30 Jahre Stiftung Starke“, Stiftung Starke, Berlin, Germany |
| 2017 | „MUSIKA“, Film, Konzert, Podiumsdiskussion, Studio Bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany |
| 2016 | „ A Bit of Everything”, Anna Laudel (formerly ART 350), Istanbul, Turkey „Portobello Film Festival 2016“, MUSIKA, Dokumentarfilm, London, UK |
| 2015 | „YAZ“, Anna Laudel (formerly ART 350), Istanbul, Turkey „Nach der Verzweiflung beginnt das wirkliche Leben“, Galerie Blond&Blond Contemporary, Berlin, Germany “Musika“, Audiovisuelles Filmprojekt gefördert vom Projektkulturfonds Berlin, Germany |
| 2013 | “YAZ“, Anna Laudel (formerly ART350), Istanbul, Turkey “Barock reloaded“, Malerei, Städt. Wessenberg-Galerie, Konstanz |
| 2012 | “Schein und Wirklichkeit“, Kallmann-Museum, Ismaning, München, Germany “7.Berlin-Biennale“, Kunstwerke Berlin, Occupy Biennale, Berlin, Germany “Rückkehr der Heimat“, Druckgraphik, Atelier Soldina, Kolonie Wedding, Berlin, Germany UKKSA Akademi, Residence, Knidos, Turkey |
| 2011 | The Sketchbook-Project 2011, touring exhibition, USA |
| 2010 | 30 Years, Gallery Rainer Wehr, Stuttgart, Germany DSV Kunstkontor with Edition S 35/2010, Stuttgart, Germany Berliner Wirtschaftsgespräche, Berlin-Adlershof, Germany |
| 2009 | Limitiert, Wessenberg-Gallery, Städt. Museen, Konstanz, Germany Kleinformate, Gallery artMbassy, Berlin, Germany Gallery artMbassy, Berlin, Germany Stiftung Starke, Berlin, Germany |
| 2008 | Scope Miami, Curator:Jane Hart, USA, Gallery artMbassy Kunstverein Traunstein, Traunstein, Germany Mostra Giostra, Studio Marzi, artMbassy, Rome, Italy Museum Kesselhaus, Berlin-Lichtenberg, Germany Artificial Nature, Gallery Kunst im Heppächer, Esslingen, Germany |
| 2007 | Wessenberg-Gallery, Konstanz, Germany Galerie artMbassy Rome, Italy |
| 2006 | Eingesehen, Kunstverein Singen im Städtisches Kunstmuseum, Germany Vorfahrt, internationales Kunstprojekt, Stuttgart |
| 2005 | Gallery Kränzl, Gaienhofen-Horn, Germany |
| 2004 | Eduart Mörike touring exhibition, Kornhaus Kirchheim u.Teck-Hällisch Fränkisches Museum Schwäbisch Hall, Germany Stiftung Starke, Berlin, Germany Roads and Roots, Kunst im Heppächer, Esslingen, Germany Passagen, Goethe-Institut Istanbul, Türkey |
| 2003 | Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany Stiftung Starke, Berlin, Germany |
| 2001 | OP-Nord, Project-room, Stuttgart, Germany Critics, Stiftung Starke,(Curator: Ingeborg Wiensowski, Spiegel-Kultur)Berlin, Germany Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany |
| 2000 | Wiensowski & Harbord, Berlin, Germany Wessenberg-Gallery, Konstanz, Germany |
| 1999 | Idylle, Gallery Vayhinger, Radolfzell, Germany International graphic-competition, Bolzano, Italy Art-Transit, Petrosadowsk, Karelia, Russla |
| 1998 | Revolution XS, Künstlerhaus Karlsruhe, Kunstverein Neckar-Odenwald, Germany |
| 1997 | Gallery Vayhinger, Radolfzell, Germany |
| 1996 | Gallery Armin Duppel, Stuttgart, Germany |
| 1995 | Erfreuen und Belehren, Graphische Sammlung, Stadtmuseum, Tübingen, Germany |
| 1994 | Städtisches Kunstmuseum, Singen, Germany |
| 1993 | Saar-Ferngas-Förderpreis, Saarlandmuseum, Saarbrücken, Germany |
| 1992 | Galerie unterm Turm, Stuttgart, Germany |
| 1990 | Berlin März 90, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany Berlin März 90, Wiensowski & Harbord, Berlin, Germany Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany |
| 1989 | Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany Pastell, Gallery Rainer Wehr, Stuttgart, Germany |
| 1988 | Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany |
| 1987 | Handzeichnung, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Germany Alpirsbacher Gallery, Alpirsbach, Germany Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany |