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Thomas Ravens
No Landscape in the News of the World
21st June – 20th July 2008, Thursday – Sunday, 12–6pm
Preview: Friday 20th June, 6-9pm
Studio Voltaire is pleased to announce Thomas Ravens’ first solo exhibition in the United Kingdom. The exhibition has been realised as a part of the International Residency Programme, which is made in collaboration with the Berlin Senate’s Department of Science, Research and Culture, the Whitechapel Gallery and Studio Voltaire. Each year, a Berlin based artist is provided with a studio, stipend, accommodation and professional development for a 10 month period, culminating in a public presentation.
Ravens current practice almost exclusively focuses on fictitious landscapes and spaces, often incorporating ‘found objects’ which reference modernist architecture and film landscapes. Working in varying scales, often directly on the wall, the exhibition at Studio Voltaire will feature a new wall painting/ installation as well as a number of works on paper. For his last exhibition at Barbara Wien, Berlin in 2007, the artist presented a series of works on paper that cited a number of references; such as Fritz Lang’s Metropolis and the 90’s sci-fi film Contact, architecture landscapes from Las Vegas and Shanghai and art world objects from Peter Friedl and Cosima von Bonin. Although the works often suggest a familiar utopian or distopian space, the imagined narrative within the works is left unclear with the suggested configurations of references.
Previous solo exhibitions include Barbara Wien, Berlin (2007 /2005) and Michel Soskine inc., Madrid (2006). Notable group presentations include Jack Hanley, San Francisco (2005) and Kunstverein Wolfsburg (2007). The artist was also co-founded the independent project space WBD, Berlin (2000-2005).
The exhibition has been financially supported by the Berlin Senate, Department of Science, Research and Culture. In collaboration with the Whitechapel Gallery, London.
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