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Ralf Sander
Ralf Volker Sander (born 15. December 1963 ) is an international active sculptor. His best known works include Lady Bird Transformation(mirage), a public sculpture for Busan International Film Festival, South Korea, commissioned in 2011 and erected in August 2012. The memorial for Martin Heinrich Klaproth was erected on the campus of Technische Universität Berlin, 25.06.1996.

Early life


Born in West Berlin Sander grew up in the British sector. He studied fine art and the history of art at Berlin University of the Arts, from 1986 to 1988. After the dead of his Stepfather Klaus Komoll who left him a small sailing vessel he was able to circumnavigate the world on a from 1988 to 1990 to study the tribal art of the pacific islands and Papua New Guinea. He completed his studies with a postgraduate course in sculpture at the Berlin University of the Arts,between 1991 and 1994. He travelled to China and Japan with a DAAD grant to study Asian Art and philosophy between 1992 and 1994.

Career


Almost all of his early works took the human body as its subject and basis for human scale wooden sculptures and carvings made from a single log of wood. Sander describes his work as: " encounter with the other side of appearance." His work attempts to treat the body not as an object but a common condition. Since 2000 he experiments with different materials and media, including film. He repeatedly refers in his work on whole social groups and integrates their participation into the working process, ( Rolandtransfer, Child`s play, Lernen ist sich Oeffnen) relying on Joseph Beuys term Soziale Plastik. Between 2003 and 2004 Ralf Sander became visiting Professor at Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw Poland The annual exhibition Aquamediale was curated and initiated by Ralf Sander in 2005. In 2005, he was appointed Reader at University of Ulster in Belfast, Northern Ireland and worked from 2008 to 2012 as professor for sculpture at Seoul National University, South Korea. In 2010 he became member of the commission board for Expo 2012 in Jeosu, South Korea. 2008 Ralf Sander started the World Saving Machine Project, a visionary project and inquiry of the impact of science on wider cultural contexts. World Saving Machine I and III are part of the WSM-project. They focus on transformation of solar energy into ice– literally, as well as (on a larger scale) metaphorically. The project was continued in collaboration with KAIST(Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) University, Daedeok, Korea In December 2011,Sander won the international art commission for Busan International Film Festival ,host of the Busan Film Festival, Asia's largest film festival, designed by COOP HIMMELBLAU. The 10.20m stainless steel sculpture, Lady Bird Transformation, morphs from a striding woman into a sea gull in flight, depending on the angle from which it is viewed.

Major works


 
 * Klaproth Stehle 1996, TU, Berlin
 * Beuys (1996) –Robert Bosch Stiftung, Stuttgard,Germany
 * St Dominicus (1999) St Bonifaz, Mainz, Germany
 * Cube (2001) – Lubben, Brandenburg, Germany
 * Mensch aergere Dich nicht
 * Childs Play (2005)
 * Rolandtransfer (2006) – permanently installed at Hohenstuecken near Brandenburg, Germany
 * Korean Energy (2011) – acquired by Seoul, Korea
 * World Saving Machine (since 2008)– Crane Art Center, Seoul MoA awarded (Korean Energy), Kaist University
 * Lady Bird Transformation (Mirage) (2012) Busan Film Center, South Korea
 * Belfast Seahorse (2013) – at Belfast Harbour,Belfast, UK