| BIOGRAPHY |
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| Born 1972 in Pfaffenhausen, Germany |
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| EDUCATION |
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| 1991-1992 | California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, USA |
| 1995 | studied painting & graphics with Arno Rink, Leipzig |
| 2000-2002 | Masterstudent of Prof. Arno Rink |
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| SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
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| 2009 | "Bäckerei", Sutton Lane, Brussels |
| | "Parade", Sorry We Are Closed, Brussels |
| | "L'Emmerdeur Futuriste", Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen |
| | "Christoph Ruckhäberle", Migros Museum, Zurich |
| | "Dessins", Sutton Lane, Paris |
| | "Portraits", Christian Ehrentraut, Berlin |
| 2008 | "General Angst", Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig |
| | "Lady in the Lake", Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv |
| 2007 | "Akademie" Sutton Lane, London |
| | Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS |
| | "Falsche Figuration", Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| | "L'homme et l'oeuvre," Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig, Germany |
| | "Christoph Ruckhäberle: Residency", Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY |
| 2006 | "Paintings and Linocuts 2003 - 2006", Sutton Lane - Paris |
| | "Äpfel und Birnen", Sutton Lane, London |
| | "The Elixir of Doctor Doxey", Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2005 | "Der Partyschreck", Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig |
| | "Nye Eventyr", Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen |
| | "Of Painting", Christian Ehrentraut, Berlin |
| 2004 | Sutton Lane, London |
| | LFL Gallery, New York |
| | Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen |
| 2003 | "Malerei", LIGA, Berlin |
| 2002 | "Malerei", LIGA, Berlin |
| | "Malerei", Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig |
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| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
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| 2009 | "60/40/20. Leipziger Kunst seit 1949," Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig |
| | "Menschenbilder 1620/2009. Zeitgenössische Bildnisse begegnen alten niederländischen |
| | Porträts," Museum Abtei Liesborn, Wadersloh |
| 2008 | "The Soul, Manifesta 7, European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Palazzo delle Poste, Trento, Italy |
| | "Wie immer", Verein fuer Original-Radierung Muenchen, Munich |
| | "New Leipzig School", CoBrA Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Amstelveen |
| | "Summer Exhibition", Royal Academy of Arts, London | |
| | "The Leipzig Phenomenon", Mucsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest | |
| | "Collection", Richard E. Peeler Art Center, Greencastle |
| | "Poets on Painters", Queens Library, Jamaica, NY; Sheldon Memorial Library Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE |
| | "Drawcula", Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig |
| | "Contemplating Modern Art", Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen |
| 2007 | "Life After Death: New Leipzig Paintings from the Rubell Family Collection", Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO |
| | "Poets on Painters", Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS; University Galleries, College of Fine Arts, Illinois State University, Normal, IL |
| | "Silly Adults", Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| | "Size Matters: XXL - recent large scale paintings", Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY |
| | "The Stuff What We Bought (Selected Purchases 2007)", Archeus, London, UK |
| 2006 | Christoph Ruckhäberle & Peter Busch, Kantor/Feuer, Los Angeles |
| | "Zurueck zur Figur", Hypo Kunsthalle, Munich (cat.) |
| | "Made In Leipzig", Sammlung-Essl Kunst Verwaltungs GmbH, Klosterneuburg, Austria |
| | "Melancolia", Sommer Contemporary Arts, Tel-Aviv |
| | "Triumph of Painting", Saatchi Gallery, London, UK |
| | "Life After Death: New Leipzig Paintings from the Rubell Family Collection", SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM; Katzen Arts Center Museum, American University, Washington, DC |
| | "Ballkuenstler", Museum der Bildenden Kuenste, Leipzig (cat.) |
| 2005 | "Sutton Lane in Paris", Sutton Lane c/o Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris |
| | "Cold Hearts: Artists from Leipzig", Arario Gallery, Korea |
| | "Life After Death: New Leipzig Paintings from the Rubell Family Collection", MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, USA |
| | "From Leipzig: Works from the Ovitz Family Collection", The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA |
| | "Neo-Con, Gavin Brown's Enterprise at Passerby", New York, USA |
| | "Reflection Part II", Sutton Lane, London |
| | "Baby Shower", Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen |
| | "The Leipzig and Dresden School", 2nd Prague Biennial of Contemporary Art |
| 2004 | "The New Leipzig School of Painting", Contemporary Museum, Baltimore |
| | "East International", curated by Neo Rauch and Gerd Harry Lubke, Norwich School of Art and Design |
| | "Clara Park", Marianne Boesky, New York |
| 2003 | "Grasland", Galerie Wassermann, Munich |
| | "Lazarus Effekt", Biennal Prague |
| | "Halbzeit", LIGA, Berlin |
| | "Sieben Mal Malerei", Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig |
| | "Nicolai Wallner", Copenhague |
| 2002 | "Wunschbilder", Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig |
| | "Convoi", Metallgalerie, IG Metal, Frankfurt a. Main |
| | "Zweidimensionale", Kunsthalle der Sparkassen Leipzig |
| | "Leipziger Lerchen Junge Malerei im Kulturhof Flachsgasse", Speyer |
| | "5 x 5 junge Kunst aus Sachsen", Neue Sächsische Galerie Chemnitz |
| | "Junge Kunst aus Leipzig", Kunstverein Sulzfeld |
| | "5 aus 11", LIGA, Berlin |
| 2001 | "Malerei", Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig |
| | "Junge Malerei", Galerie Binz und Krämer, Cologne |
| 2000 | "Junge Kunst 5", Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig |
| | "Malerei", LIGA, Leipzig |
| | "Steibs Hof", Leipzig |
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| BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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| 2007 | Veglahn, Sara. "Sara Veglahn on Christoph Ruckhäberle." Poets on Painters. Katie Geha and Travis Nichols. Wichita, KS: Ulrich Museum of Art, 2007 |
| 2006 | Zamudio, Raul. "Christoph Ruckhäberle", Flash Art, July-September |
| | Mullins, Charlotte, ed.
Painting People: Figure Painting Today. London: Thames and Hudson, 2006 |
| | Pagel, David. "Making these seemingly opposites attractive." The Los Angeles Times 20 Oct. 2006: E28 |
| | Smith, Roberta. "Christoph Ruckhäberle", New York Times, April 7 |
| | "Goings on about Town", The New Yorker, April 3 |
| 2005 | "Die Flasche Bakbub", published by Galerie Kleindienst, Sutton Lane, Nicolai Wallner and Zach Feuer. Kerber Verlag, Leipzig |
| | Volk, Gregory. "Figuring the New Germany", Art in America, June / July 2005 |
| | Marsh, Andrew. "Christoph Ruckhäberle", Flash Art, January 2005 |
| | "The Triumph of Painting", The Saatchi Gallery, London |
| 2004 | Johnson, Ken. "'Clara Park' 'Positions of Contemporary Painting From Leipzig'", New York Times, September 24, 2004 |
| | Egan, Maura. "Neue School", New York Times Magazine, September 2004 |
| | "Christoph Ruckhäberle", Art Review, September 2004 |
| | Villinger, Carina. "A League of Their Own", Art + Auction, p 92- 97 (p 96). |
| | Langbein, Nicole. "Christoph Ruckhäberle: Life on Stage", East International, Norwich School of Art and Design, exhibition catalogue |
| | "Rubell Family Collection: 'Not Afraid'", Phaidon, New York / London, (p. 230) |
| 2003 | Schmit, Hans-Werner. "Christoph Ruckhäberle: Lazy Sunday Afternoon", Zwickau: Der Städtischen Museen Zwickau |
| 2002 | Pfüller, Volker. "Christoph Ruckhäberle", Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig |
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