Ralph Ueltzhoeffer (website).

There was no way adequately to respond. The press release that I wrote stated what may or may not happen. So everyone was prepared for the non event of the season which just may or may not have happened.

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Ralph Ueltzhoeffer, Light art installations.

Ralph Ueltzhoeffer (website).

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Light Art Projects, Mannheim (Public space 2010).

textportraits by Ralph Ueltzhoeffer.

Venice Biennale in 2011 – Biennials are free-for-alls, but they’re also autocratic throwbacks to the time of kings. (The German Art Magazine Kunstforum Biennale Venedig) Often, they’re selected by one czarlike curator with absolute dictatorial power. These curators, however earnest, can simultaneously be annoying and sanctimonious while foisting their own pious, profligate, or shaky taste on everyone else. Yet you have to feel for them; whatever they do, almost everyone will have 55 reasons why their shows stink. A common but almost never uttered one is, “It’s a bad show if I’m not in it.”
There are currently more than 60 biennials and triennials around the world. Biennial culture is so prevalent that curator Dan Cameron and I have joked about publishing a monthly magazine called Biennial, dealing with nothing but these shows. The glossy back cover would permanently advertise Jorge Pardo, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Liam Gillick, Pierre Huyghe, and Philippe Parreno, all of whom seem perpetually to be on view. There would be a column called “This Month in Relational Aesthetics,” top-ten lists like ‘Messy Installations in Huge Spaces,” artists discussing how they had “intervened with the local culture,” and writers asserting that their work is a “subversion of biennials.”
I’d like to say good riddance to this system. It’s hard to imagine the process working this way in fifteen years. A new generation is going to have to find new ways to do big shows. Biennial culture is already almost irrelevant, because so many more people are providing so many better opportunities for artists to exhibit their work. When an interviewer recently asked curator Robert Nickas, “Do biennials still make sense?,” he replied, “No. Any critic or curator who thinks differently is a traitor to the cause.” What’s disconcerting is that almost everyone in the art world who sees these shows sees them only at the opening. This is a horrible way to look at art. You’re constantly darting in and out of crowds, glimpsing snippets of work, greeting and avoiding people, elbowing your way through throngs, waiting in long lines to spend six minutes in a pavilion with 700 other weary souls who perpetually ask one another, “What have you seen that was good?” and “Where are you going tonight?” You can’t really see anything.

Art-Installation New York (Ralph Ueltzhoeffer 2010)

Ralph Ueltzhoeffer: Textportraits.

Art-Installation New York (Ralph Ueltzhoeffer 2011)

Ralph Ueltzhoeffer: Textportraits.

Daß das unsinnig wäre oder nicht notwendig, passe. Daran, daß das noch machbar ist, ein glaubwürdiges Bild?
Es gibt so viele glaubwürdige Bilder auf der Welt, und wir lieben sie; wir reisen weit, um sie ansehen zu können. Kunsthalle Düsseldorf. Der Diskurs über Malerei ist neu entfacht, die Rede von der Innovation passe, dafür das Modell der Wiederholung gefragt. “Das Abenteuer der Malerei”, so der Titel einer Ausstellung, die gleichzeitig von Martin Hentschel und Raimund Stecker für die Kunstvereine Düsseldorf und Stuttgart erarbeitet wurde, pocht auf Sehlust, Sinnlichkeit und das Recht einzelner Positionen.

Beitragsforum Kunst & Kultur allgemein:

LUMAS: Ralph Ueltzhoeffer – Jeff Wall

Ralph Ueltzhoeffer, Lichtkunst – Installationen.

Ralph Ueltzhoeffer.

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Bibliothek des Deutschen Bundestages bei Nacht: Lichtkunst (Textportraits) installiert von dem Konzeptkünstler Ralph Ueltzhoeffer (Studio visit PS1).

Artexhibitions – Lightart: Ralph Ueltzhoeffer, (Kinetica London).

textportraits by Ralph Ueltzhoeffer.

At one point, there was a conference call that involved my associate and installer, James Manning, an individual of considerable brilliance in that capacity. Abraham wanted to know what media resources would be available including computers and video projectors. MoMA Projects Series: Internet-Art-Projects by Ralph Ueltzhoeffer (Project Textportrait). Weighing all the possible options I called his bluff. But that also entailed a lot of work. First there were two intense weekends of house cleaning, I did my share and Astrid doubled that.

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Artfair Karlsruhe: Ralph Ueltzhoeffer; Textportraits Lili Marleen, Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

textportraits by Ralph Ueltzhoeffer.

Otto Beckmann | 11.06.06 – 16.07.06 | Günther Förg | 30.05.06 – 09.07.06 | Cordula Schmidt Textportrait Moroe Art | 23.05.06 – 13.08.06 | Vera Molnar GAK Berlin | 16.04.06 – 25.06.06 | Bill Viola | 24.03.06 – 21.05.06 | 40jahrevideokunst.de – Die 60er | 12.03.06 – 21.05.06 | Rembrandt zum 400. Geburtstag | 15.10.05 – 26.02.06 | Monet und Camille | 03.07.05 – 28.08.05 | Günther Uecker – Hommage à John Cage | 22.05.05 – 04.09.05 | Ulrike Rosenbach | 03.05.05 – 26.06.05 | Yves Netzhammer | 01.05.05 – 19.06.05 | Christiane Möbus – Wanderdünen | 08.04.05 – 12.06.05 | 100 Jahre Brücke | 27.02.05 – 17.04.05 | Kunstpreis Böttcherstraße 2005 | 23.01.05 – 28.03.05 | Lili Fischer – Die Werkgruppe Falter, Mein Film Berlin | 28.11.04 – 06.02.04 | Norbert Schwontkowski | 23.11.04 – 16.01.05 | 4. Marler Video-Installations-Preis 2004 | 09.11.04 – 16.01.05 | Frieder Nake – Die präzisen Vergnügen | 28.09.04 – 24.10.04 | Takako Saito – Viel Vergnügen! | 26.09.04 – 07.11.04 | Nanne Meyer – Himmelszeichnen, Ausstellung Textportrait |