CAROLA RUF, KASSEL, GERMA
1955 Born in Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
1974 – 1982 University Freiburg German Philology, Diploma
1987 Visiting student of Prof. El Attar University Kassel
1988 – 1993 Academy of Fine Arts University Kassel, Prof. Buchleiter and Prof. Schuler
1993 Fine Arts Diploma
1995/2004 Furtherance of Dr. Wolfgang Zippel Foundation, Kassel
1995/1999 Honors Art Competition Nordhessen
1996 DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) grant for Japan
2004 Competition of Public Work Services Frankfurt, 1 st prize
Artist in Residence – Grant, Mojacar, Fundacion Valparaiso, Spain
2012 Artist in Residence – Grant, Ifitry, Morocco
2012 Award UPK- Art Competition Kassel, 1st prize
EXHIBITIONS AND ART PROJECTS (selection)
2022 erste hilfe – first aid, exhibition in context of documenta 15, Hugenottenhaus Kassel
2021/22 KONTEXT, Galerie in the Courts, Kassel
2021 Schnittstellen – 100 Jahre Brückner Kühner, Kunsttempel Gallery, Kassel
2019 Cassel Calling – Poetische Positionen, MAERZ Gallery Linz, Austria
2018 Antropophagische Poesie, Kunsttempel Gallery, Kassel
2017 Dynamische Zeichen, Gallery Am Park, Wien, Austria
Entropia, Gallery Barbagianna, Florenz Pontassieve, Italy
2016 anwesend – abwesend, Kunstverein Germersheim
Festival Podkowa Lesná, Poland
2014 Biennale Casablanca, Marocco
2012/13 UPK- Art Competition and exhibition Bild und Gegenbild, Kassel
2012 Encuentros, Kunsttempel Gallery, Kassel
2011 Mapping the Wor(l)d, TheArtspace, Düsseldorf
2009 Japanisch visuelle Poesie, Kunsttempel Gallery, Kassel
2008 espacios mediterraneos, Casa de las Conchas, Salamanca, Spain
A book for a lifetime, Goethe Center, Nicosia, Cyprus
2007 Arte Mobile, vom Stein zum Chip / From Stone to Microchip*, Palazzo Vecchio, Firence, Italy
2006 Kennen Sie jemanden hier? 8th artist festival , Kulturbahnhof, Kassel
2005 Kooperationen / Cooperation, Kunstfrühling 2005, Bremen
2004 Mensch und Behausung / human being and habitat, cooperation with Chus Lopez Vidal Galeria Por Amor á Arte, Porto, Portugal
2003 schattentöne / shadow tones*
Installation, Staatliche Museen Kassel, Neue Galerie/National Museum Kassel
2002 kein wort verloren / no word lost* cooperation with author Eva Maria Berg, Freiburg
2001 carambolage, cooperation work with Chus Lopez Vidal, Kunsttempel Gallery, Kassel
2000 Transparenzen / Transparencies, Glass Pavillon Rheinbach/Bonn
1999 Schrifttafeln und Objekte / Writing Tablets and Objects, Kunstverein Donaueschingen
1998 Visuelle Dialoge / Visual Dialogues*, symposium and exhibition of European artists,
Die Höge, Bassum
1997 Zwischenspiel / Intermezzo, exhibition Museum Korbach
1996 Über – setzung / Trans – lation, cooperation work with Mariyo Yagi, Kyoto, Japan
1995 excerptum, installation in Kunstverein Gallery, Göttingen
Bewegung / Movement, Art competion Nordhessen, Korbach*
1994 Reisebericht / Travel Report, Produzentengalerie, Kassel
In Bewegung / In Movement, installations in the urban area of Kassel with an exhibition and ‘Raum für Aktuelle Kunst’, Kassel
1993 Schichtungen / Layers, exhibition, Culture House DOCK 4, Kassel
transit, symposium and exhibition, artists from Easteuropean countries and artists from
Kassel showed installations in the former hotel „Hessenland“, Kassel*
Entgleisung – Desaster oder Emanzipation / Derailment – Desaster or Emancipation,
symposium, Art train, Chemnitzer Künstlerbund, Chemnitz
1992 Platz da / Make Way – Defining Places in Kassel, documenta 8 city programm Kassel
Zeitbrücken / Time Bridges*, symposium and open air exhibition, Mühlhausen
1991 Irritationen am Wegesrand / Irritation on Roadside, open air exhibition, Wendland
1990 Machines Follies – Das Künstliche und der Mensch / The Artificial and Human beiing,
art project in cooperation with ‘Lezard’, Leather factory Millau, France
1989 Machines Follies – Mensch – Maschine / Human being – Machine, art project in cooperation
with the french artist group ‘Lezard’, Salzmannfabrik Kassel
*catalogues
COLLECTIONS
Municipality Kassel , Municipality Donaueschingen