Description
Ralf Kerbach was born in Dresden, studied for two years at the HfBK Dresden with Gerhard Kettner, until he was forced to abandon his studies due to his participation in the "Doors Exhibition" at the Leonhardi-Museum Dresden. He then worked as a freelance artist and left the GDR in 1982. In 1992, he took over a professorship for painting at the Dresden University of Applied Sciences and impressed generations of students with his teaching. Ralf Kerbach lives and works in Dresden.
The university pays tribute to his teaching activities with an exhibition at the Oktogon, Kunsthalle of the HfBK Dresden. A selection of his pictorial and graphic work is shown, as well as a video created in the 1980s with Conni Schleime. The exhibition is complemented by works of some master students.
Born in 1968 in Radeberg, Thomas Scheibitz, who studied at the HfBK Dresden from 1991-1996 and subsequently completed his master’s studies there, was one of the first students of Ralf Kerbach. Since 2018 he has been a professor of painting and sculpture at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and is one of the most renowned contemporary visual artists in Germany. In 2005, he played with Tino Seghal in the German pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale.
The author Dur Grünbein describes it as follows: Scheibitz has experienced the demarcation of political systems with their projections and double images, he has jumped into the ditch, the mirrored view of the camps is familiar to him, the spectacle at the borders. "Grünbein continues, He is persistently working on the untranslucency of his art; he belongs not to the destroyers, but to the inventors. “
Access to the event via the Georg-Treu-Platz. After the beginning and until the end of the conversation no further admission.
A subsequent visit to the exhibition is possible until 23:00.
