German artist Bernd Ribbeck is influenced by artists operating at the fringes of art history or whose works are orientated towards spiritual ideas, such as Swedish painter and spiritualist Hilma Af Klint or Swiss artist Emma Kunz. In his artistic practice, Bernd Ribbeck works process-oriented, often adding various layers or scrapping the surface pigments to achieve the desired effect.
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Bernd Ribbeck
Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland 26 Oct - 15 Jan 2016Although the artist does not share modernism’s utopian faith in the future, he expresses modernist attitudes and some of modernism’s seemingly lost themes – for example, Theo van Doesburg’s idea...Read more -
Bernd Ribbeck
Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany 29 Apr - 26 Jun 2016Bernd Ribbeck frequently reflects on very diverse modernist aesthetic strategies in his compact pictures, creating a stimulating link to the history of abstraction in the collection of the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum. The...Read more -
Bernd Ribbeck
Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zahnradstrasse, Zurich 23 Apr - 30 May 2015Two series can be distinguished: on the one hand pictures with graphic, repetitive structures on changing monochrome backgrounds produced with acrylic paints and ballpoint pen and on the other, representations...Read more -
Bernd Ribbeck
Made in Germany ZweiInternationale Kunst in Deutschland, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
18 May - 19 Aug 2012Unlike in 2007, the exhibition was structured by focal themes. Based on the question of which overarching trends and artistic issues can be observed, six focal themes were defined that...Read more -
Bernd Ribbeck
Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zahnradstrasse, Zurich 2 Mar - 14 Apr 2012In the past, Bernd Ribbeck has created complex geometric paintings. Now for the first time the artist presents a series of several smaller and some larger paintings on MDF boards,...Read more -
Bernd Ribbeck
Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Limmatstrasse, Zurich 28 Feb - 4 Apr 2009Bernd Ribbeck is influenced by artists operating at the fringes of art history or whose works are orientated at spiritual ideas, such as Hilma Af Klint (1882 – 1944, Swedish...Read more