Renate Aller
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| As a Photographer/Installation Artist I am working with the notion of time. I question the existence of a place as the carrier of time. The human figure establishes a bridge between the street and a home, the inside and outside. | |
| Renate Aller spent her teenage years in Germany writing experimental music and developing movement/ performance pieces. Her interest in and investigation of “the human body and the space we occupy” is reflected in all her work, including furniture design (Sculpture/ Photography/Furniture, Hamiltons Gallery London, 1986). After studies at Chelsea School of Art in London, she enrolled at Byam Shaw and, under the mentorship of Robin Klassnik, developed media-based, multi-screen sound pieces. This led to an invitation to Museu da Republica in Rio de Janeiro, where she filled the museum with her photo installations (Wer schlaeft suendigt nicht, 1994). The exhibition traveled throughout Brazil and was acquired by the National Library in Rio de Janeiro. In 1996 she cofounded FOREIGN INVESTMENT, a collaborative artist group working in performance, intervention, installation, writing, and photography, with varying membership on each project. Many performances/interventions followed, including an invitation by the British Council as a fringe event at the Istanbul Biennale (Gold For every Body, Istanbul, 1997). In 1997 she was invited to create site-specific installations in seven different venues, including the Fringe Festival in Hong Kong (Choreography of Emotions). A British Council award made it possible for her to develop an 8x2 meter photo on canvas and an invitation to show in the Attaturk Cultural Centre in Istanbul (London Brick, 1998) and other photo festivals in Europe. During two artist residencies at the County Museum Monaghan, Ireland (2000, 2002), she photographed families and households of people living in this Irish border County— “private spaces in the mirror of the public.” The events of September 11 shattered her TriBeCa neighborhood. After two weeks of numbness and displacement, she started a photographic project with friends and neighbors to try to bring out of isolation the traumatized community, a disaster zone. The project, called Afterward, was invited into the gallery space of the Goethe Institut in New York. It traveled to various locations, including a photo festival in Florence, where Aller was invited to a residency at the Villa Romana in November/December ‘ 03 in connection with a performance/ projection/ sound/ photography/ installation.. The event (You’ve red between the lines), curated by Vittoria Ciolini, took place in a deserted slaughterhouse. In September 2003 ‘Whose place is this anyway’, a multimedia installation by Renate Aller and Beverly Peterson was shown in the Museum for Labor and in the Emigration Halls in Hamburg, Germany. Both installations have been invited to the 2004 Eberswalde / Berlin Film festival. Renate Aller’s Seascapes and other site-specific art works are in the collections of corporate institutions, museums and private collectors. |
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| 2003/2005 | Artist in Residenc, Villa Romana, Florence |
| 2000/2002 | Artist in Residenz, County Museum Monaghan, Irland |
| 1999 | The British Council Award, Documents and Identities |
| 1998 | The British Council Award, Kerteriz |
| 1997 | The British Council Award, Foreing Investment / Gold for every Body |
| 1996/1997 | Artist in Residenc, Kensington & Chelsea College, London |
| 1995 | Secon Prize, Ilford Photographic Competition, Images of London |
| 1994 | Award: Goethe Institut, I am You |
| 1991-1993 | Byam Shaw School of Art, London |
| 1988/1991 | Chelsea School of Art, London |
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| o | Yale University Art Gallery placed for their permanent collection, Yale, USA |
| Hamburger Kunsthalle acquired work for their permanent collection, Hamburg | |
| Georg Eastman House Collection, Rochester, NY, USA | |
| 2008 | Moody's , London, London, UK |
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| 2010 | oceanscapes - one view - ten years Monograph, published by Kehrer Verlag, Germany and Radius, Santa Fe, N.M. |
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| 2008 | Klompching Gallery, New York, Photography |
| 2006 | Prato Artcentre, Prato, Italy, Italian Portraits |
| Chelsea, New York | |
| Adamson Gallery, Washington DC | |
| Galerie Roland Aphold, Allschwil / Basel | |
| 2003 | Multimedia Installation, You’ve red between the lines, Prato, Italy |
| 2002 | and Freilichtmuseum Kommern, Germany |
| Photography Installation, In Remembrance of September 11th, German Consulate, NY | |
| Photographic Installation, AFTERWARDS, Goethe Institut, New York | |
| Photographic Installation, Tuscan Phototrienale, Villa Romana, Florence | |
| 2000/20 | Photography, Monaghan County Museum, Market House, Ireland |
| 1999/20 | Site-specific Photography, Marakon Art Project, London |
| 1997 | Photographic Installations, Fringe Festival/ Agfa Gallery, Hong Kong |
| Photographic Installation, Westminster Synagogue, London | |
| Photographic Installations, Monaghan County Museum, Ireland | |
| Fringe event in the Istanbul Bienale | |
| BM Contemporary Art Centre, Performance/Installation, Foreign Investment, Istanbul | |
| Video/Sound Project, The Basement, London | |
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| 2009 | Klompching Gallery, New York, Splash |
| 2008 | Houston Centre for Photography,, Houston, Texas, curated by Alison Nordstroem |
| Adamson Gallery, Washington D.C., Prints | |
| PS122, New York, Mayim Rabim, Best of Borough Award, with Ayelet Rose Gottlieb and Franny Silvermann | |
| New York Historical Society, New York, Here is New York | |
| 2007 | Bricklab,N.Y., Brooklyn, Mayim Rabim, video installation with Musician / Composer Ayelet Rose Gottlieb and Franny Silvermann Fellowship |
| 2006 | Photography, ‘Seascapes’, Steven Harris Architects, New York |
| Photography and Installations, collaboration with Anja Mohn, Alp Galleries, NY | |
| Photography / Video ,‘Fixed Coordinate’, Adamson Gallery, Washington DC | |
| Projection, ‘macrolotto_zero’, Prato, Italy | |
| Galerie Roland Aphold, Allschwil / Basel | |
| 2004 | Multimedia Installation, You’ve red between the lines, Eberswalde Filmfest, Germany |
| The Flag Project, curated by Kiki Smith, Rubin Museum of Art, New York | |
| 2003 | Digital /Sound Work, Connection, SIAD, UK |
| Museum für Arbeit and Veddel Emigration Halls, Hamburg, Germany | |
| Video Installation, collaboration with Beverly Peterson, Whose place is this anyway? | |
| 2002 | Exit Art, Reactions, New York |
| 2000 | Photography, European Women Photographers, Italy |
| 1999 | Photography, Bank Side Browser, Tate Gallergy of Modern Art, London |
| Photo Triennale, Finland1999 | |
| 1998 | Site-specific Photography Installation, Stage Fright, Kingsgate, London |
| Photographic Installation, Ataturk Cultural Centre, Istanbul | |
| Photographic Installation, Shoreditch, London | |
| 1997 | BM Contemporary Art, Foreign Investment, Istanbul |
| 1996 | Traveling Exhibition, NEC, Birmingham |
| Photography Series, Images of London, Ilford Competition, Second Prize, Exhibition, Museum of London | |
| 1995 | Photography for Susan Sontag, The Way We Live Now, Brighton, England |
| Multi-media work, Making a Stand, ICA, London | |
| 1994 | Photographic Installations, I am You, National Library, Rio de Janeiro, Part of Goethe Institut Touring Exhibition |
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