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SHORT BIOGRAPHY:
Alexandra Ranner is Professor for Spatial and Sculptural Design at the Universität der Künste Berlin. She is a highly regarded artist who works in sculpture, film, installation and photography. Ranner studied fines arts at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste München and the Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual in Lisbon. She was formerly a Visiting Professor at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart and has received numerous awards including the Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Fellowship, HAP-Grieshaber-Award der VG Bild-Kunst and Bavarian Capital Munich Award for Fine Arts. Ranner’s artistic work has also been supported through grants from the Japan Foundation, the Kunstfonds Bonn and the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen. Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally at the 49th Biennale di Venezia (Italy), 1st Triennale Yokohama (Japan), International Art Exhibition Athens (Greece), Hamburger Kunsthalle (Hamburg), Georg Kolbe Museum (Berlin), MuMok (Vienna), Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo de Santander y Cantabria (Spain) and DARE-DARE Centre de diffusion d’art multidisciplinaire de Montréal (Canada).
Selected Publications:
a) Solo Exhibitions
1. Ranner, A. Karmakollaps. Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin, Germany, 2016.
2. Ranner, A. Hyperventilirium. Kunstverein/Kunsthalle Göppingen, Germany, 2014.
b) Group Exhibitions
3. Ranner, A. Lost Places. Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, 2012.
4. Ranner, A. Invisible Shadows – Images of the Uncertainty. Marta Herford Museum, Herford, Germany, 2010.
5. Ranner, A. Santander. El Puente de la Visión, Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo de Santander y Cantabria (MAS), 2008.
6. Ranner, A. Why pictures now? Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, 2006.
7. Ranner, A. 49. Biennale di Venezia. Arsenale, Venice, Italy, 2001.
8. Ranner, A. 2001 1st Yokohama Triennale. Japan, 2001.
c) Texts
9. Ranner, A. and D. Meyer, eds. Horizontale Reaktion. Berlin: Universität der Künste, 2017.
10. Ranner, A., ed. Karmakollaps. Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2016.
