Alexandra Ranner. Karmakollaps

The Georg Kolbe Museum presents the visually striking and surreal worlds of the Berlin-based artist Alexandra Ranner. In her video installations, sculptures and films, she finds overwhelming images, full of beauty and pain, that capture the human spirit’s drive to act and its, as it were, ceaseless stumbling. For this first retrospective of her work, two new large-scale works have been created in recent years specifically for the exhibition.

Alexandra Ranner is a visual artist working in the media of spatial installation, sculpture, film and photography; she lives and works in Berlin. In 2001, she was represented at the 49th Venice Biennale, as well as in the following exhibitions (selection): International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Yokohama, Japan; ‘Outlook’, International Art Exhibition, Athens; ‘Why pictures now?’ (MUMOK, Vienna), ‘Interieur/Exterieur – Living in Art’ (Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg), ‘Invisible Shadows – Images of Uncertainty’ (Kunstmuseum Marta Herford), ‘Lost Places’ (Hamburger Kunsthalle), and ‘Haunting – Uncertain Spaces in Contemporary Art’ (Kunstmuseum Bonn).

Her works have been honoured with the HAP-Grieshaber Prize from VG Bild-Kunst, the Bavarian State Prize for Fine Arts, and a fellowship from the Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Foundation. Since 2007, she has been teaching as a professor of Plastic and Spatial Representation on the Architecture degree programme at the Berlin University of the Arts.