Ms Karin Ruggaber
SENIOR LECTURER IN FINE ART AND HEAD OF GRADUATE SCULPTURE
Slade School of Fine Art UCL
Gower Street London WC1E 6BT
Biography
Solo exhibitions include: greengrassi, London, 2018; Walter Knoll, London, 2015; PEER, London, 2013; greengrassi, London in 2012, 2008 and 2005; and Art Now, Tate Britain in 2006. Group exhibitions include: CONDO, Proyectos Ultravioleta Guatemala City with greengrassi, London, 2017; El Curso Natural de las Cosas, La Case Encendida, Madrid, 2016; Quiz 2, MUDAM, Luxembourg, 2016; Accadra' domani, Museo Marino Marini, Florence, 2015; The Library Vaccine, Artists Space, New York, 2014; Quiz, Ensemble Poirel, Nancy, 2014; British Art Show 7, Nottingham Contemporary, Hayward Gallery, London, and touring, 2010-11; Legende, Domaine De Chamarande, Paris, 2008; East International, Norwich, 2007; How to improve the World, Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery, London The Way We Work Now, Camden Arts Centre, London, 2005.
Represented by greengrassi, London.
Research Summary
Karin Ruggaber makes sculpture as well as producing artist's books. She works with a range of different media considering materials in relation to their dynamic and association with particular activities, or representational function. Recent works include relief sculptures based on an invented and self-generating vocabulary of form and materiality, using materials such as concrete, plaster, fabric and wood. Coming out of a studio-based practice the work centres on ideas around figuration, ornamentation, aspects of touch and the relationship to architectural scale; core interests are a sensory experience with architecture, looking at the imaginary and intangible components of perceived values and their translation into public space. Principles of ordering and layering are set against the roughness and imprecision of material and surface. Ideas around architecture as manifestation of aspects of territory - as something that holds rather than can be held - form part of the wider project and narrative for the work.
Current research project: Rock Room Project
The Rock Room Project is a research and exhibition project I have set up in 2013 in collaboration with the Department of UCL Earth Sciences and UCL Museums. Working with the neighbouring context of Earth Sciences generates opportunities and questions which lie on the edge of exhibition making, looking at matter, materiality and form, as well as the fantasies surrounding the disciplines. The core of the project until 2016 was an annual 1-day pop up exhibition at the UCL Rock Room. This revolves around attempts to find new forms of exhibition making, to look at the potential of collaboration and of thinking about material and sculpture through all the senses. We explore spaces that represent other forms of logic, beliefs, knowledge and disciplines such as geology, astrophysics, or applied art. Features and events include annual UCL Earth Sciences Laboratory tours to the Rock Physics, Micropaleontology and Geochemistry Laboratories, the UCL Regional Planetary Image Facility, the UCL Marine Engineering wave machine and the Anechoic Chamber. A 1-day Sculpture Park was held at the UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory in Surrey in March 2015 and June 2016. A workshop and symposium on "Poison" was held at the UCL Rock Room in 2016, involving 1980s perfume ads, a geochemist, a perfumer, an Anti-Brexit campaign as well as a 16th century field surgeon's manual courtesy of UCL Special Collections.
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/events/poison-an-anti-visual-strategy
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/events/slade-rock-room-project-2017
In 2018 we received a UCL Dean’s Strategic Fund Award for a series of workshops on "Animal Perspective". Events include a Scent and Atmosphere workshop in the UCL Anechoic Chamber, a workshop on movement with choreographer Siobhan Davies, as well as working with the presence of dogs.
Teaching Summary
2017 - present Senior Lecturer, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. Head of Graduate Sculpture.
2015 - 2017 Senior Lecturer, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. Acting Head of Graduate Sculpture.
2007 - 2015 Lecturer, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. Graduate Sculpture and PhD programme.
2000 - 2016 Associate Lecturer, Chelsea College of Art & Design, UAL. BA Fine Art.
2012 - present Visiting Lecturer, Royal Academy Schools, London.
2011 - present Visiting Lecturer, Goldsmiths College, London, BA Fine Art.
2006 - 2009 Visiting Lecturer, Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford.
2001 - 2008 Associate Lecturer, Camberwell Collge of Arts, UAL. BA Sculpture.
Visiting Lecturing includes RCA, Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart and Mozarteum Universität Salzburg.
2017-20 External Examiner, BA Fine Art, Newcastle University.
2013-16 External Examiner, BA Sculpture, Edinburgh College of Art. University of Edinburgh.
2013-16 External Examiner, MA Art and Space, European Art Practice, Kingston University.
2014-16 External Examiner, Graduate Diploma Creative Practice, Kingston University.
2008 External Examiner, MFA Fine Art, Reading University.
2014 Mentor, OUTPOST Norwich, Resident Artists Members' Exchange with FKSE Budapest.
2008 - present: Low Tech Casting Workshop: Slade Summer School; Ruskin School of Fine Art & Drawing, Oxford; Chelsea College of Arts; Mozarteum Universität Salzburg.
Exhibitions
The Ashtray Show West
2018Belmacz, London
Group exhibition at Belmacz, London, curated by Cullinan Richards and Steph Huang. This itinerant, temporary study collection is made up of artist's ashtrays from personal collections as well as bespoke pieces; sentimental, symbolic and idiosyncratic. Participating artists: Aaron Tan, Ab Rogers, Alexander Shchrenkov, Alexis Teplin, Alison Crawshaw , Arnaud Desjardin, Asta Meldal Lynge, Axel Koschier, Bernhard Rappold, Camilla Løw, Carla Åhlander, Céline Condorelli, Charlott Weise, Claudia Kugler, Coco Crampton, Cullinan Richards, Dan Coopey, Daniel Ferstl, Diango Hernández, Dominic Cullinan, Duccio Maria Gambi, Eleanor Vonne Brown, Emiliano Maggi, Emma McCormick-Goodhart, Esther Windsor, Fiona Banner, Florian Meisenberg, Francis Upritchard, Frauke Boggasch, George McCallum, Georgia Sowerby, Gernot Wieland, Giulio Delvè, Hamish Morrow, Hanako Geierhos, Hanna Mattes, Jack Burton, Jaehyung Park, Jemima Stehli, Jenny Runacre, Joel Tomlin, Johanna Magdalena Guggenberger, Joshua Lieberman, Karin Ruggaber, Kathy Slade, Katrin Plavčak, Lina Viste-Grønli, Lynda Wilson, Magdalena Drwiega, Markus Wüste, Martino Gamper, Matthias Kaiser, Michela de Mattei, Mikael Brkic, Milena Dragicevic, Min Hogg, Morten Skrøder Lund, Myfanwy MacLeod, Nick Masters, Nicole Wermers, Noah Sherwood, Oskar Korsár, Paul Housley, Paul Kindersley, Peter Fillingham, Phillipa Horan, Philipp Fleischmann, Rob Branigan, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Salvatore Viviano, Sam Chermayeff, Sam Dargan, Sarah Dobai, Sarah Staton, Simon English, Simon Popper, Siro Cugusi, Sophie von Hellermann, Steph Huang, Stephanie Theobald, Steve Sinclair, Tori Wrånes, Ursula Meyer, Uta Kögelsberger, Urara Tsuchiya, Vanessa Disler, Veljko Markovic.
Group Portrait with Garden
2018Mecklenburgh Square Garden, London
Collaboration: Karin Ruggaber and Anne Ryan, ‘A Shipwreck in Stormy Seas with Sirens on the Rocks' after Charles François Lacroix de Marseille, (A Fountain), 2018 Group exhibition with Perienne Christian, Barbara Einzig Benedict Ernst and Helen Morse Palmer, David George, Alison Gill, Clair Joy, Florian Roithmayr, Karin Ruggaber and Anne Ryan, Clare Stent, Suzanne Treister. Curated by Clair Joy.
Fully Awake 3:5
2018Dyson Gallery, RCA
Group exhibition curated by Ian Hartshorne & Sean Kaye. Charles Danby with Neil Jeffries and Jawbone Jawbone Michael Evans with Alan Dyer and Mark Sibley Lyndsey Gilmour with Karin Ruggaber and Izzy Thompson Lothar Götz with Paul Huxley and Theresa Poulton Annette Heyer with Roger Ackling and Paul Gallagher Natasha Kidd with Tess Jaray and Will Kendrick Sarah Longworth-West with Estelle Thompson and Jessica Burgess Kevin O’Brien with Sam Fisher and Rosa Lee Tim Renshaw with David Ryan and Nancy Milner Dominic Shepherd with Andrew Stahl and Steve Moberly Michael Stubbs with Gerard Hemsworth and Clara Hastrup Virginia Verran with Trevor Sutton and Aimée Parrott
The Ashtray Show @ 4COSE
20174Cose, London
Group exhibition at 4COSE, London, curated by Cullinan Richards. Participating artists include Alexis Teplin, Arnaud Desjardin, Camilla Løw, Céline Condorelli, Cullinan Richards, Dan Coopey, Daniel Ferstl, Diango Hernández, Dominic Cullinan, Duccio Maria Gambi, Eleanor Vonne Brown, Fiona Banner, Florian Meisenberg, Francis Upritchard, Frauke Boggasch, George McCallum, Joshua Lieberman, Karin Ruggaber, Katrin Plavčak, Martino Gamper, Milena Dragicevic, Nicole Wermers, Noah Sherwood, Peter Fillingham, Rob Branigan, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Sarah Dobai, Sarah Staton, Simon English, Simon Popper, Sophie von Hellermann, Steph Huang, Ursula Meyer, Uta Kögelsberger
Odds
2017Assembly Point, London
Group exhibition with Alastair Mackinven, Alexis Zelda Stevens, David Auborn, Edgar—Walker, Fran Meana, Frank Kent, Hiroko Nakajima, Holly Hendry, Imran Perretta, Ivan Maximov, Jennifer Campbell, Jonathan Kipps, Joseph Townshend, Josh Langan, Karin Ruggaber, Katja Larsson, Keef Winter, Lauren Keeley, Luke Gottelier, Nathaniel Rackowe, Paloma Proudfoot, Peter McDonald, Robbie Fife, Rory Biddulph, Rutie Borthwick, Sam Regan, Sara Strandby, Simon Faithfull, Susie Olczak, Teal Griffin plus special guests. Curated by Jon Kipps.
Drawing Biennale 2017
2017Drawing Room, London
Drawing Biennial 2017 offers insights into how artists contend with a world in rapid and disorienting flux. A snapshot of contemporary drawing practices, the exhibition includes more than 240 new and recent works on paper by leading international artists. Exhibited work: Money #2, 2017 (Series of 5).
These Architectures We Make
2017Proyectos Ultravioleta, Guatemala City at greengrassi, London
Curated by Stefan Benchoam. With Elisabeth Wild, Giuseppe Gabellone, Felipe Mujica, Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, Karin Ruggaber and Johanna Unzueta. Condo 2.
Going Public: The Napoleone Collection
2016Touchstones, Rochdale
Pioneering collector of women artists, Valeria Napoleone, brings world class contemporary art to Touchstones Rochdale Art Gallery for Going Public – The Napoleone Collection. This exhibition will show personal highlights from Valeria Napoleone’s unparalleled private collection. With her first acquisition in the mid-1990s, Valeria Napoleone established a collection with a singular purpose; to champion the work of women artists and redress the gender imbalance she saw within the art world. Spanning from painting and sculpture to photography and installation, Valeria’s remarkable collection has gone on to represent some of the most important female artists of the past 20 years.
Painting is Dead
2016CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
Group exhibition with Matthias Bitzer, Sophie Bueno-Boutellier, Manuel Canu, Robert Davis, Koen Delaere, Aleana Egan, Carsten Fock, Jan S. Hansen, Alexandra Hopf, Stefan Müller, Bernd Ribbeck, Karin Ruggaber, Holger Schmidhuber Han Schuil, Niels Trannois, Claudia Wieser. Curated by Jackie Herbst.
El curso natural de las cosas
2016La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
Group exhibition curated by Tania Pardo. With Adolfo Schlosser, Herman de Vries, Fernando García, Fernando Buenache, Nicolás Paris, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Irene Grau, Karin Ruggaber, Federico Guzmán, Francis Alÿs, Milena Muzquiz, Elena Aiztkoa,and Betty Woodman. The conceptual point of departure for the exhibition is the text "I Work Like a Gardener", written by Joan Miró and first published in 1983 in the journal Los cuadernos del Norte.
Going Public - The Napoleone Collection
2016Graves Gallery, Sheffield
Going Public: International Art Collectors in Sheffield show highlights from one of Europe’s finest private collections of twentieth century and contemporary art. With her first acquisition in the mid-1990s, Valeria Napoleone established a collection with a singular purpose; to champion the work of women artists and redress the gender imbalance she saw within the art world. Spanning painting and sculpture to photography and installation, Napoloene’s remarkable collection has gone on to represent some of most pioneering female artists of the past 20 years.
Group Show
2016greengrassi & Corvi Mora, London
Group show with Sam Bakewell, Catherine Biocca, Gareth Cadwallader, Shelagh Cluett, Kulisek/Lieske, Simon Ling, Jennifer Packer, Jennifer Pastor, Colin Pearson, Karin Ruggaber and Soroku Toyoshima.
Painting and Beyond
2016D Gallery, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei
Group exhibition curated by Froso Papadimitriou. With Huang Lanya, Ching-Yao Chen, Misaki Kodama, Sara Karin Fisher, Froso Papadimitriou and Karin Ruggaber. The exhibition is aiming to explore the factors that affect artistic expression in the UK and Taiwan such as art trends, the socio-political context, education and cultural references and the impact they have on contemporary painting both in subject matter and technique.
It's your birthday
2016Cubitt, London
Group exhibition of work by artists who are currently members and studio holders at Cubitt. Presented by Darbyshire, London. Part of Cubitt’s 25th anniversary since it was founded at Goodsway in Kings Cross. Cubitt is an artist-led organisation based in Islington, London. Founded by a group of artists in 1991, Cubitt consists of a non-profit gallery, 32 artist studios and a locally-focused education programme.
Quiz 2
2016MUDAM, Musée D'Art Moderne Luxembourg
QUIZ 2, SUR UNE IDÉE DE ROBERT STADLER, curated by Robert Stadler and Alexis Vaillant. The objects gathered together for the exhibition defy pre-established categories such as sculpture, product, furniture, etc. They intrigue us, leaving us perplexed and, above all, incite great freedom in terms of apprehending and appreciating them. These barely-recognisable and stimulating things go beyond the usual “art or design?” or “art and design?” formulas, rendering the question of the status of objects obsolete and aiming to explore the state of things today through their incongruous, astonishing or falsely recognizable forms.
undone/beings/very
2015Walter Knoll, London
Solo exhibition at Walter Knoll, London. Curated by systems. Karin Ruggaber projects a fictional space onto modernist design of the kind represented by the manufacturer’s brand. Walter Knoll is a leading international manufacturer of upholstery and design furniture. Their products create spaces for living: with classic and modern designs characterised by their comfort and longevity. systems’ project consists of a series of investigations into the legacy and present possibilities of modernist design, extended through publication, writing and exhibition.
Façade Project for Deptford Lounge.
2015Deptford Lounge, London
Relief # 128, 2015. Installation of a relief sculpture onto the façade of Deptford Lounge. Public project for Deptford X. Curated by Janette Parris.
Accadra' Domani
2015Museo Marino Marini, Florence, Italy
an ongoing archive of artist's books curated by Gregorio Magnani. with anonimo, kasper andreasen, diana artus, blisterzine, daniel gustav cramer, mariana castillo deball, michael dean, arnaud desjardin, johanna drucker, melissa dubbin & aaron s. davidson, karl holmqvist, takashi homma, brian kennon, louis lüthi, sara mackillop, kristen mueller, sophie nys, asher penn, chiara pergola, simon popper, lucy powell, alessandro roma, karin ruggaber, christoph schifferli, izet sheshivari, rachel simkover, erik steinbrecher, mladen stropnik, derek sullivan, nik thoenen & lorenzo le kou meyr, peter tillessen, erik van der weijde, jean-michel wicker the exhibition is dedicated to the most recent phase in the history of artists’ books. these are works of art that borrow the format and the particular modes of distribution and consumption of the book; they are not books replicating works of art, but works of art that exist exclusively through the format of the book. all the books selected are either self-published or participate in a minor economy of small independent publishers. their modes of production and circulation, as well as the conditions under which they are housed and experienced, create and reinforce their content.
Alioli
2015OUTPOST, Norwich
Group exhibition with Jo Addison, Eric Bainbridge, Matthew Ferguson, Robert Filby, Pierre-Charles Filipo, Georgina Hayes, Simon Newby, Karin Ruggaber, Yonatan Vinitsky.
The Library Vaccine / Everything is About to Happen
2014Artists Space, New York, US
Everything is About to Happen: An ongoing archive of artists' books selected by Gregorio Magnani. The Library Vaccine presents a number of discrete collections of books in order to sample art's distinctive relationship to the book form in its singularity, and in its states of reproduction, distribution and accumulation. The exhibition addresses the book as a particular technology, and in its collective state of the private collection, reading room or library, as a social machine – registering social and personal histories, and articulating structures of knowledge and value through the relations between its parts.
A merman I should turn to be
2014Laura Bartlett Gallery, London
Group exhibition curated by Dan Coopey. With Rupert Ackroyd, Aaron Ange, Nicholas Byrne, Alex Dordoy, Graham Ellard & Stephen Johnstone, Paul Housley, Alexis Marguerite Teplin, Ruairiadh O'Connell, Karin Ruggaber.
Quiz
2014Ensemble Poirel, Nancy, France
Group exhibition about the relationship between art and design objects curated by Alexis Vaillant and Robert Stadler, Ensemble Poirel, Nancy, France. With Ron Arad, Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Aaron Curry, Thea Djordjadze, Konstantin Grcic, Roger Hiorns, David Musgrave, Manfred Pernice, Tobias Rehberger, Ettore Sottsass, Ricky Swallow, Nicole Wermers, Franz West, Heimo Zobernig and others. Catalogue edited by Robert Stadler and Alexis Vaillant. With texts by Kirsty Bell, Claire Brunet, Emily King, Edouard Montassut, Robert Stadler and Alexis Vaillant.
Bad Copy: Carrdiff by Parris
2014Cardiff Story Museum, Cardiff
Museums at Night 2014. Bad Copy - a project organised by Janette Parris
Somewhat Abstract
2014Nottingham Contemporary
Selections from the Arts Council Collection. Group exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary selected by Alex Farquharson. Artists include Tomma Abts, Armando Andrade Tudela, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Anna Barriball, David Batchelor, Zarina Bhimji, Karla Black, Peter Blake, David Bomberg, Christine Borland, Martin Boyce, Varda Caivano, Anthony Caro, Helen Chadwick, Adam Chodzko, Prunella Clough, Bernard Cohen, Harold Cohen, Keith Coventry, Cathy De Monchaux, Richard Deacon, Jeremy Deller, Rita Donagh, Garth Evans, Barry Flanagan, Elisabeth Frink, Gilbert and George, Laura Godfrey-Isaacs, Paul Graham, Alexis Harding, Raphael Hefti, Barbara Hepworth, Thurston Hopkins, John Hoyland, Zebedee Jones, Emma Kay, Philip Lai, Peter Lanyon, John Latham, Mark Lewis, Hilary Lloyd, Kenneth Martin, Gustav Metzger, Alan Michael, Yoko Ono, Eduardo Paolozzi, Kathy Prendergast, Bridget Riley, Karin Ruggaber, Colin Self, Walter Sickert, Daniel Sinsel, Lucy Skaer, Richard Smith, Jem Southam, The Hackney Flashers, Wolfgang Tillmans, Amikam Toren, William Tucker, Mark Wallinger, Rebecca Warren, Richard Wentworth, Rachel Whiteread, Cathy Wilkes, Stephen Willats, Cerith Wyn Evans. Virtually every significant artistic movement since the Second World War is touched on in this major exhibition drawn from The Arts Council’s own national collection, curated by Nottingham Contemporary’s Director Alex Farquharson. Spanning seven decades of art made in Britain, Somewhat Abstract shows the work of 70 artists, eight of them Turner Prize winners. Abstract art is the exhibition’s starting point. Yet as its title suggests most of the art works are near-abstract, rather than truly abstract. They are works in which the world has undergone a transformation. The image has lost its definition to become something else, while still retaining a sense of where it came from.
Call me on Sunday
2014Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
Group exhibition at Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna. Curated by Ursula Maria Probst. With Marina Abramović, Ida Applebroog, Tauba Auerbach, Monika Baer, Clarina Bezzola, Juliette Bonneviot, Louise Bourgeois, Ulla von Brandenburg, Johanna Calle, Beatrice Caracciolo, Naia del Castillo, Angela de la Cruz, Katrina Daschner, Tacita Dean, Aleksandra Domanović, VALIE EXPORT, Marina Faust, Female Obsession, Mary Frank, Pamela Fraser, Sonja Gangl, Isa Genzken, Michela Ghisetti, Dorothee Golz, Katharina Grosse, Jitka Hanzlová, Kathi Hofer, Judith Hopf, Roni Horn, Anna Jermolaewa, Birgit Jürgenssen, Maureen Kaegi, Kerstin Kartscher, Luisa Kasalicky, Laleh Khorramian, Erika Giovanna Klien, Alena Kotzmannová, Alicja Kwade, Marie-Jo Lafontaine, Maria Lassnig, Louise Lawler, Sonia Leimer, Natalia LL, Liza Lou, Dorit Margreiter, Ursula Mayer, Chiara Minchio, Şükran Moral, Martina Nehrling, Meret Oppenheim, Laura Owens, Danica Phelps, Amalia Pica, PRINZGAU/Podgorschek, Agnieszka Polska, Pushpamala N., Rivka Rinn, Judith Rohrmoser a.k.a. Jaye, Signe Ross, Karin Ruggaber, Eva Schlegel, Toni Schmale, Nora Schultz, Constanze Schweiger, Nino Sekhniashvili, Elfie Semotan, Cindy Sherman, Esther Stocker, Despina Stokou, Ingeborg Strobl, Meg Stuart, Urszula Tarasiewicz, Maria Temnitschka, Tatiana Trouvé, Julia Vecsei, Sophie Whettnall CALL ME ON SUNDAY is the second of several parts of the long-term series CCC (curators collectors collaborations) initiated by Krinzinger Gallery - a starting point for the interconnection of international collectors and curators. Inspired by the consequent attitudes of the collectors Valeria Napoleone (London) and Alexia Stuefer (Vienna), who limit their collections to artworks by female artists, CALL ME ON SUNDAY focuses on 77 artistic positions by female artists. The Krinzinger Projekte’s exhibitions spaces therefore display oeuvres of international artists in private collections and arranges them in a dramaturgically intertwined setting. The exhibition also makes references to the legendary show “Eccentric Abstraction” by US-American curator and critic Lucy Lippard, that took place in New York in 1966 and - deviating from what the title would suggest - addressed the subjects of strong, autonomous, female corporeality and lifestyle.
Of and For
2014The Bank, Central House, London
Group exhibition curated by Camilla Wilson and Mary Maclean. With Peter Fillingham, Dave Hanger, Mary Maclean, Jess Macneil, Caroline McCarthy, Karin Ruggaber, Camilla Wilson, Eleanor J Wright, Emily Wolfe. Inhabited space, both private and public, is the subject of this exhibition. It suggests that the experience of interior and exterior architectural space is expressed by the part rather than the whole, the fragment rather than a totality. The fragment is asymmetrical, dynamic, occupying a moment of internalised attention, as the agent of an unresolved narrative.
Taking note or The Curious Eye
2013NUI Galway Art Gallery, Ireland.
Group exhibition around the idea of noticing and taking note. Curated by Robin Jones
STAG - Berlin/London
2013dispari&dispari project, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Group exhibition curated by Katrin Plavcak and Cullinan Richards. With Monika Baer, Luca Bertolo, Hanna-Mari Blencke, Andrew Bick, Varda Caivano, Ben Cottrell, Milena Dragicevic, Béatrice Dreux, Olivier Guesselé-Garai, Sophie von Hellermann, Sigrid Holmwood, Robert Holyhead, Ursula Hübner, Johanna Kandl, Jutta Koether, Rannva Kunoy, Antje Majewski, Marzena Nowak, Katrin Plavcak, Reto Pulfer, Gunter Reski, Cullinan Richards, Karin Ruggaber, Christian Schwarzwald, Ulrika Segerberg, Noah Sherwood, Dillwyn Smith, Esther Stocker, Monica Tap, Alexis M Teplin, Caragh Thuring, Corinne Wasmuht, Marcus Weber, Sue Williamsn e Amelie von Wulffen.
Leichte Verstörung in den Fabriken
2013tete, Berlin, Germany.
Group exhibition curated by Adrian Schiesser: With Stefan Gross, Karin Ruggaber, Liam Gillick, Mustafa Hulusi, Sarah Morris, Tiago Carneiro da Cunha, Fayçal Baghriche, Kapwani Kiwanga, Michel Bo Michel.
A Conspiracy of Detail
2013Mackintosh Museum, Glasgow
Group exhibition with Pio Abad, Jonathan Baldock, Josh Blackwell, Jim Lambie, Hew Locke, Alex Pollard, Eva Rothschild, Karin Ruggaber, Renee So. Curated by Jenny Brownrigg. This exhibition looks at the ideas contemporary practice has around adornment, exploring cultural, social and material aspects. It looks at the status that detail and embellishment has now in contemporary practice. The highly detailed Mackintosh Museum welcomes this examination also, with the building itself influenced by the Arts & Crafts Movement that Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his peer group were part of.
Karla Black & Karin Ruggaber
2013Oriel Myrddin Gallery, Arts Council of Wales
Two person exhibition organised by the Arts Council Collection
An outside of a house
2013PEER, London
Solo exhibition of newly commissioned work. Exhibition funding through Henry Moore Foundation Project Grant and Elephant Trust.
Drawing Biennale 2013
2013Drawing Room, London
Curated by Drawing Room directors, over 200 artists are invited to make an original drawing in any medium on an A4 sheet of paper. The Biennial presents an insight into contemporary artists approach and relationship to drawing, often exposing the first intimations of a new body of work, providing insights into previously hidden working processes or revealing atypical modes of work. Exhibited work: Dogs, Money & Houses #2, 2013.
I don't feel like it: The Indifference of Objects
2012Camberwell Space, London
Group exhibition curated by Florian Roithmayr. With Caroline Achaintre, Jess Flood-Paddock, Alex Heim, Hilary Koob-Sassen and Karin Ruggaber.
Shorts
2012Kino Babylon am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin, Germany.
"Shorts", 9 video clips produced in collaboration with Sarah Staton. Screening at Flights of Fancy, Verein zur Förderung von Kunst und Kultur am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin. Curated by Jaspar-Joseph Lester and Susanne Prinz.
Karin Ruggaber
2012greengrassi, London
Solo exhibition at greengrassi, London.
Karin Ruggaber - Swiss Church in London
2011Swiss Church in London, 79 Endell St., WC2H
Solo exhibition of new work made in response to the space of the 19th century Swiss Church and its recent renovation by architects Christ and Gantenbein.
Camulodunum
2011Firstsite, Colchester
Inaugural group exhibition at Firstsite's new public gallery designed by Rafael Vinoly Architects. One of four commissioned artists including Michaela Eichwald, Aleksandra Mir and Danh Vo. Curated by Michelle Cotton.
Modernism has two faces
2011Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute, Scotland
Group exhibition curated by Sarah Staton and Simon Bill. With Eva Berendes, Enrico David, Karin Ruggaber, Sarah Staton, Simon Bill.
Savage Messiah
2011Rob Tufnell at Sutton Lane, London
Group exhibition curated by Michelle Cotton and Rob Tufnell. With works by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Steve Claydon, Keith Coventry, Anthea Hamilton, Mark Leckey, Dereck Jarman, Eduardo Paolozzi, Ezra Pound, Daniel Silver and others.
Drawing Biennale 2011
2011Drawing Room, London
Now firmly established in the art world calendar Drawing Biennial presents the latest developments in contemporary drawing and demonstrates the crucial role that drawing plays in contemporary art practices.
Just Photography
2011Martos Gallery, New York City, USA
Group exhibition of photography curated by Bruce Haines. Just Photography brings together a cross-generational gathering of artists from Europe for whom photography exists either as dominant practice or a more casual endeavour. Presenting a range of works from the 1980s to the present day, through their various formal, conceptual or performative experiments, their photographs seem historically to be ambiguously located in time. Artists: Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, Tim Braden, Bianca Brunner, Hugo Canoilas, Ernst Caramelle, Lourdes Castro, Raphael Danke, Jane England, Jason Evans, Adam Gillam, Melissa Gordon, Ilana Halperin, Anne Hardy, Raphael Hefti, Alex Heim, Jessica Mallock, Andrew Mania, Rudolf Polanszky, Sam Porritt, Dan Rees, Sophy Rickett, Karin Ruggaber, Monika Schwitte, Lindsay Seers, Miroslav Tichy and Li Yuan-chi.
British Art Show 7, In the Days of the Comet
2010Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham; Hayward Gallery, London and touring to Glasgow and Plymouth
National Touring Exhibition curated by Lisa Le Feuvre and Tom Morton organised by the Hayward Gallery, London. “The British Art Show is widely recognized as the most ambitious and influential exhibition of contemporary British art. The 39 selected artists have been chosen on the grounds of their significant contribution to contemporary art in the last 5 years.” The exhibition toured from Nottingham Contemporary in 2010, to the Hayward Gallery, London, Glasgow Museum of Art and venues in Plymouth during 2011.
Drawing Biennale 2009
2009Drawing Room, London
Drawing Biennial 2009 presents the latest developments in contemporary drawing and demonstrates the crucial role that drawing plays in contemporary art practices.
The Sculpture Show, The Real
2009V22 at the Biscuit Factory, London
Group exhibition. The Real curated by Fergal Stapleton. With Phyllida Barlow, Tom Burr, Anne Damer, Audrey Reynolds, Karin Ruggaber, Fergal Stapleton and Martin Westwood.
Los Vinilos
2008Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington Gardens, London
Group exhibition curated by Henry Coleman for Zoo Art Fair 2008
The Krautscho Club
2008Galerie im Regierungviertel, Berlin and 176 Project Space, London
Exhibition curated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers for "The Forgotten Bar Project", Berlin and "Material Presence", 176 Project Space, London
Karin Ruggaber
2008greengrassi, London
solo exhibition at greengrassi, London
Legende
2008Domaine departemental de Chamarande, Chamarande, France
Group exhibition curated by Alexis Vaillant at Chamarande, Essonne. “Created for Department Domain de Chamarande - its 17th century castle, hunting lodge, ice-house, and chapel - the exhibition brings together works of 47 international artists. The works interrogate the artificiality of the current world and render up intensified visions of it…” Artists include David Altmejd, Roger Hiorns, Gedi Sibony, Pae White and Lisa Yuskavage.
Mittlere Körnung
2008Carl Freedman Gallery, London
3 person exhibition curated by Tatiana Echeverri-Fernandez: Wolfgang Breuer, Thomas Humphreys, Karin Ruggaber
Hope and Despair
2007Cell Project Space, London
Group exhibition, Cell Project Space. Curated by Bob Matthews. With Alexandra Bircken, Kaye Donachie, Ian Hunt, Mark Titchner and others.
EAST International 2007
2007Norwich School of Art & Design, Norwich Gallery, Norwich
Group exhibition selected by Matthew Higgs and Marc Camille Chaimowicz. Installation of 19 relief sculptures onto the facade of Norwich Gallery. Arts Council Lottery Grant.
Los Vinilos - El Basilisco
2007El Basilisco, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Group exhibition curated by Henry Coleman including Pae White, Mark Titchner, David Musgrave and others.
Friedrich
2006doggerfisher, Edinburgh
Group exhibition curated by Bruce Haines. With Markus Amm, Helene Appel, Eva Berendes, Ellen Gronemeyer, Alex Heim, Karin Ruggaber and Nicole Wermers.
How to improve the World
2006Hayward Gallery London
Arts Council Collection exhibition curated by Michael Archer and Roger Malbert
Karin Ruggaber, Art Now, Tate Britain
2006Tate Britain
Solo exhibition at Art Now, Tate Britain. Karin Ruggaber - From hard to soft.
60 - Arts Council Collection
2006Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield
2006 marks the sixtieth anniversary of the Arts Council Collection. The Arts Council Collection is the largest loan collection of post-war British art in the world. Since 1946, it has acquired some 7,500 works - including over 700 sculptures and installations - for loan to exhibitions and public spaces across the UK and beyond.
The way we work now
2005Camden Arts Centre, London
Group exhibition curated by Bruce Haines with Stuart Cumberland, Roger Hiorns, Adam Gillam, Ian Kiaer, Rachel Kneebone, Karin Ruggaber and Francis Upritchard
Claire Hooper & Jacob Jürgensen, Karin Ruggaber
2005Rachmaninoff's, London
Group exhibition at Rachmaninoff's, London. Curated by Matthew Arnatt and Maggie Smith
mega-süper military style
2005greengrassi, 1A Kempsford Road, London
solo exhibition at greengrassi, London.
Der Tod und das Mädchen
2004Jonathan Viner Gallery, London
Exhibition curated by Sophie von Hellermann, in conjunction with Elfriede Jelinek reading.
Present Future
2004Present Future, greengrassi. Artissima 11, Turin, Italy.
A solo exhibition at Present Future, Artissima 11.
Ideal Standard
2004Vanderborght, Dexia Art Centre, Brussels, Belgium.
Group exhibition curated by Elena Filipovic. With Goshka Macuga, Simon Moretti, Karin Ruggaber, Veit Stratman and Anton Vidokle.
Modellsituation Berlin
2004Landesvertretung Baden-Württemberg, Berlin, Germany.
Kunststiftung at Landesvertretung Baden-Württemberg, Berlin. Group exhibition of scholarship holders.
Honey I rearranged the collection
2003Corvi-Mora and greengrassi, London
Group exhibition at Corvi-Mora and greengrassi, London. With Allen Ruppersberg, Roger Hiorns, David Musgrave, Lisa Yuskavage, Silke Otto-Knapp, Tomma Abts, Jim Isermann and others.
The Straight or Crooked Way
2003Royal College of Art, London
A project by Goshka Macuga. Curating Contemporary Art, RCA.
US work and men's shirts
2003greengrassi, London
Solo exhibition at greengrassi, London
Slimvolume Poster Publication
2002Vilma Gold, London
organised by Andrew Hunt
Rene Daniels and Karin Ruggaber
2002Bloomberg Space, London
No time wasters
2002KIAD Rochester
Group exhibition at KIAD, Rochester. Curated by Mark Dickenson and Martin Clark
Exchange
2002Richard Salmon Gallery, London
Group exhibition curated by Rupert Norfolk and Henry Coleman
Predator
2001KX Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany.
Group exhibition curated by Giles Perry and Jorn Ebner
Cowboy Cinema
2001Mobile Home, London
A project with ARTLAB, Charlotte Cullinan and Jeanine Richards
Minutes Only
2001Orgelfabrik, Karlsruhe, Germany
Performance evening at Orgelfabrik, Karlsruhe. Curated by Rainer Ecke.
D.I.Y.
200015 C, London
Group exhibition at 15C, London. Curated by Frank Hannon. With Artlab, Bob and Roberta Smith, Karin Ruggaber, Luke Gottelier.
Karin Ruggaber
2000Haus der Kunststiftung, Stuttgart, Germany.
Solo exhibition at Haus der Kunststiftung, Stuttgart. Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg.
Peter Kapos, David Musgrave, Karin Ruggaber
2000greengrassi, London.
Group exhibition at greengrassi, London.
297 x 210
2000Arthouse, Dublin, Ireland.
Group exhibition and publication, Arthouse, Dublin. Curated by Arthur R Rose.
year
2000Royal College of Art, London
Year-long exhibition project curated by Mark Dickenson and Martin Clark. Curating Contemporary Art, Royal College of Art.
set
1999Arthur R Rose, London
Solo exhibition at Arthur R Rose, London.
Thinking Aloud
1998Kettle's Yard, Cambridge; Camden Arts Centre, London; Cornerhouse Manchester
National Touring Exhibition curated by Richard Wentworth
Publications
The Humility of Plaster
Conference at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge organised by Florian Roithmayr. Humility of Plaster is a two-year research and exhibition project by Florian Roithmayr exploring the materiality of collections housing plaster moulds and casts across Europe, enabled through a new partnership between the Museum of Classical Archaeology, Kettle’s Yard, and Wysing Arts Centre. The conference at Kettle’s Yard includes contributions from invited speakers from a range of moulding and casting workshops, exploring practical making, plaster casting techniques and collection strategies. Invited speakers include Dr Rebecca Wade, assistant curator Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, Alex Massouras, Ruskin School of Art, Oxford, Thomas Lefeuvre, L'Atelier de Moulage, Paris and artist Karin Ruggaber. Presentation abstract: My presentation focusses on recent explorations and ideas around casting, making, figuration and visibility. I will talk about my studio floor as a ground for material thinking, composition and making, my teaching and research projects, and my fascination with moulds, 19th century plaster casts and the paper squeezes of Alfred Maudslay. My research centres on our experiences, imagination and fantasies around materials, processes and larger ordering systems, and on the instinctual and haptic knowledge embedded in our interactions with them.
Studio floor series, 2017
"Studio floor series, 2017" is an artist's book/publication commissioned by Bloomberg SPACE. It is an exploration of the studio floor are as an arena for material thinking, composition and making. Published as part of "Physical Information", an exhibition series and symposium organised by Rupert Norfolk. It is part of an exhibition series co-curated by Rupert Norfolk and Henry Coleman at Bloomberg SPACE 2016/17, exploring how physical objects can generate alternative experiences in an increasingly abstract world.
The Middle of the World
A book by Yonatan Vinitsky. Published by Empire Books, Paris. . Absalon, Yaacov Agam, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Lygia Clark, Naum Gabo, Rupprecht Geiger, Matt Montini, Bruno Munari & Leo Lionni, Ezra Orion, Chana Orloff, David Perlov, Dorothea Rockburne. A limited edition book by Yonatan Vinitsky in the format of a completed sticker album. Inspired by popular French and Belgium sticker albums, the book inhabits a place between an artist’s book and historical documentation and re-enactment in the form of a large-scale completed sticker album sculpture. Vinitsky’s publication examines the studios of 14 international artists of the 20th Century, through the collaboration of more than 40 artists, writers, designers, photographers, architects and other related practitioners, working together under the roof of the book. The 14 studios were selected by Vinitsky from his personal list of art heroes. The book is constructed from newly commissioned texts and visual projects; without the use of any archival material, using performance, illustration, 3D models, photography, scanning, painting, sculpture and various re-enactments in order to ask what the artist studio means today. Contributors: David Adika, François Aubart, Ellie Armon Azoulay, Ariella Azoulay, Ewa Bickels, Alice Channer, Héléna de Laurens, Sophie Delpeux, Vanessa Desclaux, Oliver Evans, Jacob Farrell, Ryan Gander, Marie-Ange Guilleminot, Mark Higden, Sam Hryckow, Benjamin Lafore & Sébastien Martinez-Barat, Myriam Lefkowitz, Achim Lengerer, Cédric Libert, Mathieu Loctin, Rebecca May Marston & Barnie Askew Page, Susan Meiselas, Aurélien Mole, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Ourie Ophir Azoulay, Émile M. Ouroumov, Janina Pedan, Florent Pierre, Pierre-Alain Poirier, Élodie Royer & Yoann Gourmel, Karin Ruggaber, Tom Shay, Moran Shoub, Sam Thorne, Ben Toms, Emilia Vinitsky Armon, Jonathan P. Watts, Hugo Wheeler, Jennifer Winkworth, Raphaël Zarka. ISBN: 979-10-95991-038 English/French 304 pages 235 × 305 mm Hardcover Design: Syndicat
Fictional carpets for Walter Knoll
Publication produced for undone/beings/very at Walter Knoll, London. Karin Ruggaber’s fictional carpet proposals merge image and texture to create an imaginary layer upon which items of furniture might be differently grounded. Carpets are conventionally used in the showroom to coordinate furniture groupings and suggest both a naturalistic space of conversation and an ideal space of rational exchange.
House of Voltaire
House of Voltaire 2014 is a collaboration of the independent arts organisation Studio Voltaire and fashion house Chloé and is a biennial temporary pop-up shop selling art works, furniture and fashion by leading contemporary artists, in support of the not-for-profit gallery and education programme of Studio Voltaire.
Yeşilyurt, 2013
Online video produced for "An outside of a house", PEER, 2013. Part of a series of published projects about the suburb of Yeşilyurt, Istanbul. 7.06 min
PEER - Artist in conversation
Karin Ruggaber in conversation with Sarah Staton and Phillip Lai, chaired by Ingrid Swenson
Sculptors discuss Sculpture
Frieze Issue 147, 2012. Survey discussion featuring Leonor Antunes, Alice Channer, Thea Djordjadze, Liz Glynn, Charles Long, Christina Mackie, Karin Ruggaber, Kilian Rüthemann, Bojan Šarčević and Nicole Wermers
Valeria Napoleone's Catalogue of Exquisite Recipes
Edited and foreword by Valerie Napoleone. Text by Jennifer Higgie, Mark Hix. "The collector Valeria Napoleone has made a name for herself by exclusively collecting the work of living women artists, but she has no other limitations--just that the work be something she wants to “live with.” With this book, she combines her two chief passions, pairing her favorite artworks with recipes from her homeland, Italy."
Psychedelia - ICA
Camulodunum - Artists'Talk
Mount Stuart Visual Arts Programme - Artists and curators in conversation
Sarah Staton, Simon Bill, Eva Berendes and Karin Ruggaber in conversation with Dr Dominic Paterson
Live issue of P.E.A.R
Presentation of my research into fantastical architecture and the integration of the rational with the imaginary - introducing three different manifestations and philosophies around visibility and form through my recent research trips to Tirana/Albania (mayor Edi Rama's city wide facades project); Dornach/Switzerland (Rudolf Steiner's Goetheanum and Anthroposophical colony) and Southern Romania to source upscale villas built by the Roma.
Arnolfini Spring 2011 Lecture Series
Public lecture at Arnolfini, Bristol
Villas
“Villas” is an image-based book portraying a series of upscale villas built by the Roma in Southern Romania. In 2010 I undertook a road trip from Istanbul to Romania in an attempt to find these largely undocumented buildings. Mostly built with basic machinery or by hand, they are striking in their untutored and direct realisation, style referencing and ambitious scale, mostly layed out for large family clans. The buildings often remain empty after completion, or are used for storage rather than lived in, the act of their realisation taking precedence over their actual use. “Villas” is made in relation and parallel to my sculptural work, looking at the extreme and contrasting sculptural language and raw physicality of this architecture. My wider project and research interest is based on the idea of "fantastical architecture" and a material realisation of an imaginary inner world into a vocabulary of sculptural form.
Yeşilyurt: In conversation with Megan O'Shea
5 page project and interview with Megan O'Shea (co-editor)
Systems - Contemporary Art Society 100th Anniversary
Glo-Ball
Yeşilyurt
Artist's book documenting and recording the particular architecture and use of ornamentation in the suburb of Yeşilyurt in Istanbul, Turkey. The book touches on ideas of decoration, ornamentation and organisation of space in relation to sculpture.
Angelaki: Journal of the theoretical humanities, issue 2007,1. Transmission: Working from the collection
Artist's page
EAST Discourse
Presentation of Facade Project for East International 2007, Norwich Gallery
Artist's talk - Art Now, Tate Britain
Solo exhibition at Tate Britain, Art Now - in conversation with Katharine Stout
Istanbul buildings and materials
The book examines the relationship between materiality, surface and ornament within the city’s architecture. Published with Camden Arts Centre, London alongside "The Way We Work Now", 2005.
Konzerthaus Liederhalle
Konzerthaus Liederhalle was made in response to the architecture of a concert hall in Stuttgart, Germany built in 1955. The book portrays the building and its functionality, form and incongruous use of materials. The architecture is a mixture of various styles and building methods essentially with a view to integrating its purpose, which is to frame and enable music, visually into the design and making.
Public Sculpture
4 page publication on the subject of architecture and water
Centrefold 4 - curated by Reza Aramesh and Andrew Bonacina
Contributors: Andrew Bonacina, Dave Carbone and Mathew Brotherhood, Babak Ghazi, Margarita Gluzberg, Will Hunt, Elizabeth McAlpine, Dawn Mellor, Sadie Murdoch, Rupert Norfolk, Michael Raedecker, Karin Ruggaber and Saskia Olde Wolbers. Centrefold is a limited edition publication in scrapbook format, with a print run of no more than 60 copies. Centrefold attempts to record a non-linear (local) art history through the view of an artist (Aramesh), rather than echo how art is recorded and fictionalised by art historians. To date six scrapbooks have been created, the title of each taken from a socio-political issue at the time of its production. Centrefold is held in major public institutions and in private collections.
I love history
artist's book
Birthday Paper
CITY
artist's book, 8 covers folded