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2023, Torn mulberry paper, acrylic, collage, 84 × 84 cm
Born in 1956 in Klein St. Paul (Carinthia, Austria)
Graduated in business administration and business education in Graz in 1981.
Since 1989 working with painting, graphics, video, installation and photography.
Four semesters of artistic design as part of his architecture studies with Giselbert Hoke.
Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg, “From Painting to Photography and Back” with Rivka Rinn.
Training with Helmut Helmessen, Hans Staudacher, Paul Rotterdam and Rebecca LittleJohn, among others.
Exhibitions in Austria, Switzerland, Slovenia, Germany, France
“NULLA DIES SINE LINEA - KEIN TAG OHNE LINIE ”1 Paul Klee Paul Klee noted this sentence from the Historia Naturalis by the Roman scholar Pliny, in which he describes an episode between Apelles and Protogenes, in his 1938 catalog raisonné under a drawing with the work number 365. It could not describe Renate Krammer's artistic practice any better. For 20 years, the line has been the formal and thematic basis of her oeuvre, the basic idea and primum movens of an infinite number of compositional variations. The expression of a freehand movement on the sheet of paper according to parameters conceived by the artist in advance. Being able to abandon these parameters if other ideas prove more interesting during the work is part of Krammer's process-oriented approach. Klee developed his line theory between 1918 and 1927, to which he added only a few more aspects in the following years. He attributed expression, dynamism and psyche to the line. Leonardo, on the other hand, dealt with the subject of the line in equal depth, but understood it entirely in the sense of the “disegno” of the Renaissance: as plan, intention, design. For Leonardo, the line had the highly complex property of constructing bodies and objects, but he denied the existence of the line in nature and thus also its necessity in painterly representation.
According to Leonardo, we do not see nature in lines, but perceive landscapes in varying degrees of sharpness - from the details of the immediate surroundings to the more distant, which we only recognize out of focus. Things should therefore appear in tonal interlacing in the “smufato”. Father Zea expresses a similar skepticism towards the line in Daniel Kehlmann's novel Measuring the World when he tells the natural scientist Alexander von Humboldt about his attempt to determine the meridian length of the equator. "Measuring the equator. [...] To draw a line where there had never been one. Had they looked around out there? There are lines elsewhere." Kehlmann has Humboldt reply: "Lines exist everywhere [...]. They are an abstraction. Where there is space itself, there are lines "2 and thus describes the line as movement in space. However, Renate Krammer's line is not descriptive or representational, but the object and main protagonist of the work itself. Krammer explores the possibilities of the line and the material paper empirically and on the basis of the artistic process per se.
(Text excerpt Silvie Aigner)
Lost Space
2023, acrylic on canvas, 200 × 300 cm
untitled
2024, Acrylic glass pane, engraved, wooden frame, black lacquer, 62 × 62 x 4 cm
Ausstellungen
EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2025 Floating Lines, Burgkapelle, MMKK Klagenfurt
2025 Papier, RENATE KRAMMER | TONE FINK, Galerie Gölles
2025 round and round she goes and where she stops nobody knows ZEIT, curated by zweintopf, Sammlung Erich Wolf Spiegelgitterhaus Gleisdorf (GA)
2024 7. International André Evard Prize, Kunsthalle Messmer (D)
2024 THE BEAT GOES ON, 25 years Kunsthalle Feldbach (GA)
2024 >LINIEN-ZWISCHEN-RAUM<, Galerie M, Klagenfurt
2024 Sol LeWitt's Wall. Performed, Re-Imagine the Future, Kunsthaus Graz, Space01
2023 Présence de la ligne, Atelier-Editions Fanal, Basel (GA)
2023 KUNSTSCHRIFT with Bodo Hell, Künstlerhaus Factory, Vienna (GA)
2023 DEN BLICK ÖFFNEN, art.P Kunstverein, Perchtoldsdorf, Vienna (GA)
2023 DIE REALE LINIE - THE REAL LINE, Museum der Wahrnehmung MUWA, Graz
2023 ART TANSFORMS US! WINTER SHOW, Galerie La Ligne, Zurich (GA)
2023 PAPERWORKS&PAPERCONCEPTS, Haus der Kunst, Baden (GA)
2023 see(h)nsucht, millstART, Stift Millstatt (GA)
2023 PAPERWORKS&PAPERSONCEPTS, Galerie im Lindenhof, Raabs (GA)
2023 Initiative Kunstverleih, Akademie Graz (GA)
2023 PAPERWORKS&PAPERSONCEPTS, Kunsthaus Horn (GA)
2022 Art Paris, Galerie La Ligne
2022 Neue Werke. Galerie Leonhard
2021 Linien, Galerie La Ligne, Zurich
2021 Skyfall, Galerie Marenzi, Leibnitz/Stmk
2021 Art Paris, Galerie La Ligne
2021 VIELLEICHT, HilbertRaum, Berlin (GA)
2021 Ortart, invited competition, Stieglerhaus, St. Stefan ob Stainz
2020 LINIEN, Stadtgalerie am Minoritenplatz, Wolfsberg/Ktn
2020 PARALLEL Vienna, GALLERY STATEMENT - styrianARTfoundation, Vienna (GA)
2020 Styrian Power 2020, Tennenmälzerei Ebene - 1,40 / OPEN. LAB, Graz (GA)
2020 ART WORKS IN HARMONY, Galerie La Ligne, Zurich (GA)
2020 NINE IN, Part of the Game 2020, 9 Spieler*innen - 9 Videobeiträge, Kunsthalle Graz
2020 Initiative Kunstverleih, Forum Stadtpark, Graz (GA)
2020 Art Paris, Galerie La Ligne, Onlinepräsentsstion
2019 LINIEN; Galerie Leonhard, Graz
2019 slow motion, Studio, Neue Galerie Graz, video and catalog presentation
2019 ZWISCHENTÖNE, Irmgard Schaumberger - Renate Krammer, Steirisches Feuerwehrmuseum Kunst & Kultur
2019 art KARLSRUHE, fair for classical modern and contemporary art, Galerie Leonhard
2019 Initiative Kunstverleih, Forum Stadtpark, Graz (GA)
2019 KAMBIUM, as part of the For Forest project, Künstlerhaus Klagenfurt (GA)
2019 Panarte Galerie, Vienna
2018 LINIEN, Galerie Leonhard, Graz
2017 Die Poesie der Linie, Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten, Graz
2017 Riviera Colony 2017, Porec, Croatia
2017 Styrian Power, Künstlerhaus Klagenfurt, Carinthia (GA)
2017 SLOVENIJA OPEN TO ART, 25th International Art Symposium, Recognition Award for special artistic achievement, Licna Hisa, Ajdovscina, SLO
2017 Grenzen des Sichtbaren, ORF Funkhausgalerie, Graz, with Gruppe 77
2016 Time-Space-Existence, Architecture Biennale 2016, Palazzo Mora, Venice
2016 BUCH77, Gruppe 77, KunstRaumZwei, Vienna (GA)
2016 Im Kabinett: 232, Galerie 3, Klagenfurt (GA)
Collections: KULTUM depot Graz, City of Graz, Neue Galerie Graz, Arthothek des Bundes, MMKK Museum moderner Kunst/Kärnten, WKO Steiermark, Sammlung Quartier Leech, Sammlung Galerie Marenzi, Sammlung Wolf, various private collections
Member: Forum Stadtpark, Künstlerhaus Wien, Kunstverein Kärnten