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Raïssa Venables
*1977, New York, USA
The photographs of New Yorker Raïssa Venables portray distorted rooms with intoxicating colours in a surreal manner. Despite the absence of people in her photographs, we still feel their souls in the rooms. Although her work is contemporary, involving the engagement of the latest technology, Venables is influenced by important artistic innovations in history. This includes the usage of perspectives and colours of the classical Renaissance, the Expressionist exploration of the relationship between colours and emotions, and the Cubist experimentation of depicting an object in multiple viewpoints on canvas. The result is a mesmerizing impact Venables’s photographs have on us the viewers, allowing us to imagine the dreams, nightmares, and events that took place in those spaces.
www.raissavenables.com
1995 - 1999
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography & Ceramic Sculpture, Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri, USA
2002
Master of Fine Arts in Photography, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, New York, USA
2010
Master of Professional Studies in Digital Photography, School of Visual Arts, New York, USA
2011
Rendered Visible, Galerie Rothamel Frankfurt,
Frankfurt a.M., Germany
2010
Raïssa Venables, B.A.T. Campus Gallery, Bayreuth, Germany
All That Glitters, WAGNER + PARTNER, Berlin, Germany
A New Perspective of Wahnfried, Richard Wagner Museum, Bayreuth, Germany
Raïssa Venables, galería matthias hauser, La Coruña, Spain
2009
Distorted Places, Klaudia Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Raïssa Venables Fotografie, Galerie Rothamel, Erfurt, Germany
Raïssa Venables Fotografie, Galerie Rothamel, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany
2008
Maybe Too Lofty?, WAGNER + PARTNER, Berlin, Germany
2007
Raïssa Venables, Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim, Neuenhaus, Germany
Raïssa Venables, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Niederwall, Germany
In the Guest House, Roswell Museum And Art Center, Roswell, New Mexico, USA
Raïssa Venables, Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Germany
Raïssa Venables, Städtische Galerie Waldkraiburg, Germany
2011
Breitseite – Im Fokus: Raum, Villa Merkel & Bahnwärterhaus, Esslingen, Germany (November 6 – January 22 2012)
Herein! – Fotografierte Interieurs, DZ-Bank (Art Collection) Frankfurt, Germany
Things are Queer: Highlights der Sammlung UniCredit, MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany
2010
Thinking Photography: Five Decades at the Kansas City Art Institute,
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Realism: The Adventure of Reality, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, Germany
Realism: The Adventure of Reality, Kunsthalle Emden, Germany
Blütezeit, Galerie Rothamel Erfurt, Germany
2009
The Inner Eye: Interiors of Contemporary Art, Kunsthalle Tübingen, Germany
Radius: Emerging Artists from Connecticut and Southeastern New York, Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Conneticut, USA
One step beyond Reality - Positionen zeitgenössischer Fotokunst, WAGNER + PARTNER, Berlin, Germany
Visite - Galerie Rothamel zu Gast im Kunstverein Speyer, Kunstverein Speyer, Kulturhof Flachsgasse, Germany
Times of Prosperity, Galerie Rothamel Frankfurt, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
2008
The Brand New Deal, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, USA
Real: Selections from the Collection of the DZ Bank, Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Photos and Phantasy: Selections from The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Carnegie Art Museum, USA
Full Circle: Ten Years of Radius, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA
2007
R.A.I.R. Works 40, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Roswell Artist-In-Residence Program 40th Anniversary, RMAC, Roswell, USA
The Eclectic Eye: Pop And Illusion – Selections From The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, USA
Frozen Moments, Galerie Christa Burger, Munich, Germany
Staatliche Kunstsammlung Dresden, Germany
DZ-Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Sammlung Knauthe, Berlin, Germany
HypoVereinsbank (UniCredit Bank), Munich, Germany
Kunsthalle in Emden, Emden, Germany
Nelson-Atkins Museum / Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
The Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, Roswell, New Mexico, USA
The Progressive Collection, Mayfield Village, Ohio, USA
Weisman Foundation, Los Angeles, USA
UBS Switzerland, Hong Kong and Singapore
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Raïssa Venables
Texts: Matthias Harder, Lori Waxmann
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Year published: 2006
Languages: English, German
Hardcover, 96 pages, 29 Images
ISBN 3-77571763-3
Raïssa Venables
Catalogue to accompany the exhibition at BAT CampusGalerie Bayreuth
Text: Ulf Erdmann Ziegler
Year published: 2010
Languages: English, German
Hardcover, 48 pages, 26 images
