Christoph Ruckhäberle

Painting as in a Changing Kaleidoscope (excerpt)
by Christoph Tannert (in: Christoph Ruckhäberle: Waking up the Pictures, UNC 2023)

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Indeed, Ruckhäberle states that, "the meanings of my artworks are not hidden in them like a secret but rather specifically determined and constructed by the circle of viewers through the process of reflection and recognition. I like it when people think in completely different directions. The more contradiction in what they see, the better." Ruckhäberle's art is not for the faint of heart. A master of stage-like compositions with multiple figures, he has worked his way through countless stages of additive "Leipzigness" to attain a compositional complexity in which the positive and negative relationships seem more organic than before. His art offers an incredibly literate as well as intellectually and aesthetically diverse range of forms, colours, patterns, overlapping surfaces, and spatial explorations.

Various critics have made out an element of nostalgia in Ruckhäberle's paintings. However, it is not a longing for lost worlds that drives him but rather the strong stimuli triggered by certain images, which he processes unconsciously because he feels related to a certain tradition. Indeed, Ruckhäberle sees himself as an inheritor, not a sampler. His art is the sum of two currents, the "high" and the "low," seamlessly combining the important and the banal.

The specificity of his position also lies in the fact that he registers historical and contemporary lines of tradition in art and connects them in unorthodox ways. In essence, this implies knowing your own origins while at the same time engaging with other readings of modernity and readjusting your own position in the kaleidoscopic perception of the other. This painter works magic with art history. His paintings point to the future by revisiting the past. Time is only an illusion. For it does not flow. It simply exists. The now is purely a matter of perspective. For Ruckhäberle, thinking in rigid art-historical categories makes no sense. As critic James Trainor has pointed out, what lies at the heart of his art is "a nostalgia for a time that is not your own but which holds both a palpably present, cosy familiarity and a nagging mystery."

Admittedly, spectators of his paintings might notice the appearance of period costume and hat fashion of the years before and after the First World War. But what Ruckhäberle paints while strutting up and down the timeline is nothing more and nothing less than a medley of stylistic paraphrases, Pop Art with comic appeal perhaps, or a slow rumination of the semantic identity of Mexican art, seen through the glasses of a cinephile from Upper Bavaria (from Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm, to be precise), now living in Leipzig (Saxony), who studied animation at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia (USA) in the early 1990s, was a fellowship holder of the Walt Disney Character Animation Fund in 1993, and has been running an arthouse cinema in Leipzig for several years. Can art today be anything else than an essentially hybrid creation? It is Ruckhäberle's syncretic ability that makes his art look of its time and yet unmistakably unique.

Some of his earlier paintings (notably from 2005) but also several of his more recent works make one feel as though one were watching a film whose pervasive sense of gloom and depictions of savage brawls leave one wondering at which point it has tipped over into this nightmarish condensation. In this free-for-all, Ruckhäberle doesn't pull his punches.

Humour is generally considered a risky terrain in art. But Ruckhäberle manages to meld the serious and the ironic into one. What is impressive (and not at all laughable) about his paintings is that they sketch a society that seems out of synch with both its privileges of affluence and its history. Ruckhäberle's figures may be "out of fashion," but they are as timely as historically influenced myths can be, evoking recurring daydreams that even today's eyewitnesses may relate to because his images rely on a sense of presentness. Their contemporaneity is grounded in the fact that they depict a certain milieu, a certain formal-pictorial dimension and, above all, a certain attitude that permanently observes itself, questions itself and, notwithstanding its sensibility, ultimately accepts itself, thus contributing to a rather smart melancholy infusion.

As much as Ruckhäberle longs for the dissolution of boundaries, the free overlapping of painting and décor, he ultimately stages these transgressions in a very controlled manner. Ruckhäberle, who calls Thomas Pynchon his favourite author, confidently keeps at a distance from his paintings without relinquishing control. In matters of style, he knows no pardon.

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Christoph Ruckhäberle
by Christoph Tannert (in: Vitamin P2 - New Persectives in Painting, Phaidon 2011)

Christoph Ruckhäberle is the most conspicuous outsider of the new Leipzig school, which has a reputation for melancholy. There is nothing wrong with melancholy in itself - after all, this quality is often associated with greatness. But a whole group of artists painting sad pictures? ln fact, Ruckhäberle's pre-2006 pictures also appear rather gloomy, but he managed to put this characteristic behind him earlier than most of his contemporaries by exploring tendencies already present in his work, most notably bright colour, humour and his affinity with precisely patterned surfaces and ornament. The awkward gestures and oddly twisted limbs of the figures in his pictures make them look like marionettes in a puppet play. Particularly in his earlier works, they seem wooden, as if carved, frozen in time and in mid-movement, isolated and bored. The minimal interaction between the figures and a palpable distancing from the viewer in his skillfully painted compositions have a considerable allure that has propelled him onto the international stage.

Ruckhäberle's coloured lithographs, which began to appear at the end of 2006, demonstrate a more stylized version of his formal vocabulary that has fed back into his paintings. At around this time, Ruckhäberle and graphic artist Thomas Siemon founded the Leipzig LUBOK Verlag publishing house, which came to attention through its 'Bilderbücher': graphic books printed on a 1950s rapid press using the original printing blocks. Lubok is a Russian word that refers to satirical folk picture books that were popular in the seventeenth century. Ruckhäberle’s printed graphics and oil paintings on paper and canvas owe much to this research. They show individual figures standing, lying, gesticulating and dancing - almost always seen full-frontal and facing the viewer. The single-colour posterlike backgrounds and the suggestion of cloud formations in some of the pictures are clear borrowings from Expressionism and Surrealism.

Sharing a certain sentiment with Tilo Baumgärtel, Ruckhäberle puts masked companies on parade, permeated by the spirit of New Folk - a kind of post-hippie hippie movement that exalts closeness to nature and is interested in folk art and an early European earthy contemplativeness. These children of freedom are searching for new adventures and find them in a return to private mythologies and in cult-like groups. Ruckhäberle's paintings of masks combine horror, humour and superstition, intensified to wild and absurd excesses. He spreads colour around in an endeavour to share sensual and earthly joie de vivre and to reconcile it with spiritual ideals. This sounds rather like the output of the band Gogol Bordello; one could imagine that Ruckhäberle's peasant women, circus figures, free wanderers and twisted marionettes are dancing to the band's distinctive brand of folk punk. The resulting aesthetic of these pictures is unmistakable. Ruckhäberle's paintings are curiously accessible - but despite their simplicity, they do not shrink from being confrontational, engaging and challenging.

• 1972 born in Pfaffenhofen (Germany)
  1991-1993 Animation studies, California Institute of Arts Valencia, California (USA)
  1993 Grant of the Walt Disney Character Animation Funds (USA)
  1995-1999 Studies of painting at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig in the class of Prof. Arno Rink
  2000-2002 Master Studies with Prof. Arno Rink
  2007 Foundation of the LUBOK publishing house
  2016-2022 Professorship for painting and graphics at the Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig
  lives and works in Leipzig

Solo shows

• upcoming 2026 Marc Straus, New York
  Aki Gallery, Taipei (Taiwan)
  Drents Museum, Assen (Netherlands)
  2025 Der zerbrochene Krug, Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig
  Die Rabe, Thaler Originalgrafik, Leipzig
  2024 Liebende Frauen, Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
  Drei Schwestern, Sorry we're closed, Brussels
  Waking up the Pictures II, Goyang Aram Art Museum, Goyang (South Korea)
  Waking up the Pictures III, Podium Dive M, Busan (South Korea)
  Duo Duo (with Shanee Roe), Wannsee Contemporary, Berlin
  Das blutige Schloss der lebenden Leichen, Thaler Originalgrafik, Leipzig
• 2023 Der Schlüssel, Lundgren Gallery, Palma de Mallorca
  Waking up the pictures, The Seouliteum, Seoul
  Malelei, WESTSIDE, Leipzig
  Der Handschuh, Thaler Originalgrafik, Leipzig
• 2022 Das Gläserne Eck, Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig
  Spiel mit dem Feuer, AKI Gallery, Taipei (Taiwan)
  2021 Art-Book: Pictoriality in Print, Musashino Art University Museum and Library, Tokyo
  2019 Crippled Symmetry, Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig
  IMAGE, Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig
  2018 César - Christoph Ruckhäberle, Sorry we're closed, Brussels
  Noa Noa, Thaler Originalgrafik, Leipzig
  Print Selections, ZieherSmith Gallery, New York
  Paradise Lost, Ampersand Gallery, Portland (USA)
  2017 Volkskunst Fabrik, Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst (Germany)
  2016 Malerei/Grafik, Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig
  New Paintings, ZieherSmith, New York
  Christoph Ruckhäberle, Ampersand Gallery, Portland (USA)
  Disparates, Bühlers, Fürth
  2015 Kalif Storch, Thaler Originalgrafik, Leipzig
  Netsuke, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Kopenhagen
  Behind the Green Door, Ampersand Gallery, Portland (USA)
  2014 Tanz (Dance), Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig
  Christoph Ruckhäberle - Polka, Galerie der Stadt Wels (Austria)
  A Moveable Feast - PART VIII, Campoli Presti, Paris
  2013 Dekoration (Decoration), Galerie Christian Ehrentraut, Berlin
  Frau im Mond (Woman in the Moon), Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf
  Frühstück im Freien (Breakfast Outdoors), ZieherSmith Gallery, New York
  Spazio Punch, Guidecca, Vienna
  2012 Frau im Mond (Woman in the Moon), Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig
  Die Stadt, Campoli Presti, London
  2011 The Pervert, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
  2010 Christoph Ruckhäberle, Trapped in White Tiger Sanctum, Hospitalhof, Stuttgart
  2009 Bäckerei (Bakery), Sutton Lane, Brussels
  Parade, Sorry We Are Closed, Brussels
  Emmerdeur Futuriste, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
  Christoph Ruckhäberle, Migros Museum, Zurich
  Dessins, Sutton Lane, Paris
  Portraits, Christian Ehrentraut, Berlin
  2008 Lady in the Lake, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
  General Angst, Gallery Kleindienst, Leipzig
  2007 l´homme et l´œuvre, Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig
  Incorrect Configuration, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
  Christoph Ruckhäberle, Ulrich Museum of Art, Whichita State University, Wichita (USA)
  Academy, Sutton Lane, London
  Christoph Ruckhäberle: Residency, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
  2006 Sutton Lane, Paris
  LFL Gallery, New York
  Zach Feuer Gallery, New York
  Hobbyshop, Munich
  Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig
  Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
  2005 Of Painting, Christian Ehrentraut, Berlin
  Nye Eventyr, Galleri Nicolai Wallner
  The Party Fright, Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig
  2004 Sutton Lane Gallery, London
  Zirkus, LFL Gallery, New York
  Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
  2003 Frog with the mask, Gallery LIGA, Berlin
  2002 Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig
  Gallery LIGA, Berlin
  2001 Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig

Group shows

• 2025 The Narrative of Decline, Carbon 12, Dubai
  Die Ähnlichkeit ist rein zufällig, Thaler Originalgrafik, Leipzig
  04179. SpinnereiGalleries in Chemnitz, Wirkbau, Chemnitz
  2024 Hunger nach Bildern, Museum No Hero, Delden (Netherlands)
  Greetings from LE, Jari Lager Gallery, Cologne
  2023 Überdruck, Kaisertrutz Görlitz, Kaisertrutz
  You, Wetsside Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig
• 2022 Bilderkosmos Leipzig. 1905-2022, Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig
  Barlach und die jungen Wilden, Ernst Barlach Museen, Güstrow
  2021 German Painting Now, Telegraph, Olomouc (Czech Republic)   
  NEW, Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig
  Chow Chow, Werkschauhalle Spinnerei, Leipzig
  2020 Gestern, heute, übermorgen, Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt/Oder
  We are open, Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig
  NEW 2, Westside, Leipzig
• 2019 Gratwanderung, August Macke Haus, Bonn (Germany)
• Nähe und Distans, Landtag Brandenburg, Potsdam (Germany)
• Heads, Galerie der Stadt Wels, Wels (Austria)
• The Leipzig Connection, Croatian Association of Artists (HDLU), Zagreb (Croatia)
• 2018 Painting from Leipzig, Antonio Colombo, Milan
• Gaudiopolis, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig
• Dritte, Neuer Pfaffenhofener Kunstverein, Pfaffenhofen (Germany)
• Eros and Thanatos. SØR Rusche Collection Oelde/Berlin, Museum Abtei Liesborn, Liesborn
• MdbK meets G2. Painting from Leipzig since 2000, Museum of Visual Arts, Leipzig
• Zeigen und Sagen, Deutsche Bundesbank Geldmuseum, Frankfurt/Main
• 2017 doing identity. Collection Reydan Weiss, Kunstmuseum Bochum (Germany)
  
• Ladder to Heaven, Neuer Pfaffenhofener Kunstverein, Pfaffenhofen (Germany)
• Jetzt Druck machen, Angerlehner Museum, Thalheim (Austria)
• Pentomino #4, Thaler Originalgrafik, Leipzig
• Monday is a Day between Sunday and Tuesday, Tanja Leighton, Berlin
• Our teenage dreams so hard to beat, Kunstraum Ortloff, Leipzig
• Printjam II, Thaler Originalgrafik, Leipzig
• 2016 Storyteller. Contemporary Art from Leipzig, Nationale Art Museum & Goethe Institut Hanoi (Vietnam)
• Pink Powder - de la Cruz Collection, Cotilla Gallery, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (USA)
  LUBOK - prints and artist books, Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, Schwandorf
  Always and Forever. 23th Leipziger Jahresausstellung, Westwerk, Leipzig
  Made in Germany: Contemporary Art from the Rubell Family Collection, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas (USA)
  2015 Statement 2: New Painting from Germany, Goethe Institute, Hong Kong
  2.5.0. Object is Meditation and Poetry, Grassi Museum, Leipzig
  Love. The first of the seven virtues, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York (USA)
  German Promises, Ornis A. Gallery, Amsterdam
  Bittersweet TImes. Baroque and Present in the SØR Rusche Collection Oelde/Berlin, Arthouse Apolda Avangarde, Apolda (Germany)
  Leipzig 2015. Hildebrand Collection, G2 Kunsthalle, Leipzig
  Spinnerei Artists Show, Werkschauhalle, Leipzig
  MASH UP 2, Hardenbergstraße, Leipzig
  Familiar Society, Thaler Originalgrafik, Leipzig
  Camera Obscura, Kunstverein Pfaffenhofen, Pfaffenhofen (Germany)
  Good Art? Want! SØR Rusche Collection Oelde/Berlin, Auf AEG, Nürnberg
  VOLTA 11, Markthalle, Basel

• 2014 bb, Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig
  Bittersweet Times, Baroque und Present in SØR Rusche Collection Oelde/Berlin, Kunsthaus Stade (Germany)
  Amorphophallus, Galeri Ehrentraut, Berlin
  Print Jam, Archiv Massiv, Leipzig
  Where is here? #1: Painting and Present, Kunstverein Reutlingen (Germany)
  2013 Affinities. Modern Painting and drawing from the Collection Frieder Burda, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf (Switzerland)
  LUBOK in Mexico, Museo de la Estampa del Instituto Mexiquense de Cultura, Toluca (Mexico)
  Jahre Zukunft, Galerie Notwehr, Sonneberg (Germany)
  ZWEITE, Kulturhalle, Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm (Germany)
  LUBOK in Mexico, Centro Cultural Clavijero, Morelia (Mexico)
  Purchased - New Acquisitions of the Graphic Collection 2003 - 2013, Museum of Visual Arts, Leipzig
  LUBOK. Grafica contemporanea y libros de artistas de Leipzig, Galería de Arte Contemporáneo del Teatro Isauro Martínez Torreón, Coahuila (Mexico)
  Cliche Verre, Spinnerei archiv massiv, Leipzig
  Berlin Klondyke, Hipphalle, Gmunden (Austria)
  2012 Berlin-Klondyke, Neuer Pfaffenhofener Kunstverein, Pfaffenhofen (Germany)
  german now - from Leipzig, Seongnam Art Center, Seoul (South Korea)
  Lubok, Grafica contemporánea y libros de artistas de Leipzig, Museo Nacional de la Estampa, Mexico City
  Lubok. Graphic and Artist Books from Leipzig,Kulturbahnhof Eller, Düsseldorf
  2011 Convoy Leipzig, Biksady Gallery, Budapest
  Parcours, Auf AEG, Nürnberg
  Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Gallery Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart
  After The Goldrush, Art association, Speyer (Germany)
  Saxonia Paper, Art hall of Sparkasse, Leipzig
  2009 60/40/20. Art in Leipzig since 1949, Museum of Visual Arts, Leipzig
  People Pictures 1620/2009. Contemporary Images meet old Dutch portaits, Museum Abtei Liesborn, Wadersloh (Germany)
  2008 The Leipzig Phenomenon, Art hall, Budapest
  Manifesta7, European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Trentino (Italy)
  Drawcula, Gallery Kleindienst, Leipzig
  New Leipzig School, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen (Netherlands)
  as always, association of etching, Munich
  2007 Since Leipzig, art hall Wittenhagen (Germany)
  Life After Death: New Leipzig Paintings from the Rubell Family Collection, Frye Art Museum, Seattle / Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City / Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City (USA)
  Poets on Painters, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita (USA)
  Made in Leipzig - Pictures of a city, Essl Collection, Royal Palace Hartenfels, Torgau (Germany)
  2006 Triumph of Painting, Saatchi Gallery, London
  Kantor/Feuer Gallery Los Angeles
  Artists from Leipzig, Arario Gallery, Cheonan (South Korea)
  Back to the image, Hypo art hall, Munich
  Summer exhibition, Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig
  Ballkünstler, Museum of Visual Arts Leipzig
  Made in Leipzig – Pictures of a City, Essl Collection, Klosterneuburg/Vienna
  2005 Cold Hearts: Artists from Leipzig, Arario Gallery, Korea
  Sutton Lane in Paris, Sutton Lane c/o Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris
  Reflection Part II, Sutton Lane, London
  From Leipzig. Works from the Ovitz Family Collection, Museum of Art, Cleveland
  The Dresden and Leipzig Schools, 2. Prague Biennial, Prague
  Leipzig in Dessau, Meisterhäuser Bauhaus, Dessau
  Collection Olbricht, New Museum Weserburg, Bremen
  Life after Death, MassMoCA, North Adams
  Quartet, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv
  Baby Shower, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
  Neo-Con, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise at the Passerby, New York
  2004 The New Leipzig School of Painting, Contemporay Museum, Baltimore
  East International, curated by Neo Rauch, Norwich School of Art and Design (Norge)
  Clara Park – MarianneBoesky Gallery, New York
  Annual exhibition, Leipzig
  2003 Grassland, Gallery Wassermann, Munich
  Lazarus Effect, Biennial Prague
  Seven Times Painting, Museum of Visual Arts Leipzig
  Max Pechstein Award, Museum Zwickau
  LIGA - Young art from Leipzig, art association Neustadt
  Seven Times Painting, Museum of Visual Arts Leipzig
  Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
  2002 Desired images, Museum of Visual Arts Leipzig
  Convoi, Metallgalerie, IG Metal, Frankfurt/Main
  Two-dimensional, art hall of the Sparkassen Leipzig
  Leipsig larks. Young painters at Kulturhof Flachsgasse, Speyer
  5 x 5 Young art from Saxony, New Sächsische Galerie Chemnitz
  Young art from Leipzig, art association Sulzfeld
  5 from 11, Gallery LIGA, Berlin
  Welcome to Leipzig, exhibition room of the Liga Frankfurt/Main
  Convoi, Kulturspeicher Oldenburg
  2001 Painting, Gallery Kleindienst, Leipzig
  Young Painting, Gallery Binz and Krämer, Cologne
  Arte Saxonia, Kuppelhalle of the Dresdner Bank, Leipzig
  Leipzig painters, art association Gallery Markt Brucksmühl
  2000 Young art 5, Gallery Kleindienst, Leipzig
  LIGA, Steibs Hof, Leipzig

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