Stefan Rinck
Stefan Rinck presents animal-like sculptures made of sandstone with characteristics that appear to come from the medieval era, at a time when people were intimidated by the menacing forces of animals. Today, Stefan Rinck places them on pedestals or on the floor positioning them in military formations alongside humanoid generals and re-endues them with their demonic potentials, which have been suppressed under the modern condition. As true swindlers, the animals always strive for more than their origin allows them, as a metaphor for the evolution of man. In possession of a self-conscious mind, just like humans, they have been expelled from paradise. The swindling animals are eager to adopt intellectual symbols: pointed hats as regalia of scholarship or alchemy, the cross as a symbol of morality, the robe as a sign of profane power and have a vision to defeat man using his very own means
Born 1973 in Homburg/Saar, Germany
Lives and works in Berlin
EDUCATION
1993-95
Stone sculptor, Apprenticeship, Zweibrücken, Germany
1995-96
Studies of art history and philosophy, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken
1996-00
Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Karlsruhe
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
Abstracción bárbara en la casa de los excéntricos – Galeria Alegria – Barcelona (ES)
Endemic Creatures – CCA Andratx – Mallorca (ES)
In this Garden he reads the Diary of the World – Sorry We're Closed – Brussels (BE)
2020
de-monstration – Bark Berlin Gallery – Berlin (DE)
Saint Georges et son Dragon de Compagnie – La Forêt d'Art Contemporain – Bélis (FR)
Beyond the White Line – Semiose – Paris (FR)
I feel Air from other Planets – Nino Mier Gallery – Los Angeles (US)
2019
To Eat or to be Eaten – Semiose – Paris (FR)
Carnival – CAC Chapelle du Genéteil – Château-Gontier, (FR)
2017
Pilgrimage to Kashyyyk – CCA Andratx – Mallorca (ES)
Les statues meurent aussi – Maladrerie Saint-Lazare – Beauvais (FR)
Fresh Meat in the shark pool – Muro – Mallorca (SP)
Metaphysical Casino – Semiose – Paris (FR)
2016
Sick White God, Sorry We?re Closed, Brussels
2015
The Eternal Comedy of Creatures -Galeria Alegria, Madrid
2014
A Sunny Place for Shady People, Cruise & Callas, Berlin
2013
Dark Matter, Sorry we're closed, Brussels, Belgium
2012
Fama - Good and bad speech after death, with Gabriel Vormstein, Patricia Low Contemporary, St. Moritz, Switzerland
2011
Stefan Rinck befragt die Nachbarschaft: Will Gott noch was mit uns zu tun haben, Cruise & Callas, Berlin
Die Geister die ich rief, Kunstverein Zweibrücken (C)
2010
Hasenprophezeiung, with Philipp Dogan, Galerie Petra Vankova, Berlin
Stefan Rinck & Ralf Dereich - Im Preservat, Ringstube, Mainz (C)
2009
Stefan Rincks Lehrplan des Lebens - life would suck without it, Cruise & Callas, Berlin (E)
The Quest for Lost Innocence, Sorry we're closed, Brussels
2007
Vicerunt Viderunt Venerunt, with Uwe Henneken, The Breeder Projects, Athens
Hoc oriente fug it, Bei Dereich, Berlin
Salon de Geffa, Private Sammlung Reyle & Sellin, Berlin
2006
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
Atropäischer Hyberbolismus, gelaicht in Antwerpen, in irgendeiner Schwemme, Ballhaus Ost, Berlin
Portal of Glory, Vilma Gold, London
Klara Wallner PLUS, Berlin
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
FIAC Hors les murs – Jardin des Tuileries – Paris (FR)
Biennale Internationale Saint-Paul de Vence – Saint-Paul de Vence (FR)
Strangers in the House – Semiose – Paris (FR)
Supernature – Centre d'Art Contemporain Yverdon-les Bains – Yverdon-les-Bains (CH)
Tiger in a Tropical Storm – Louise Alexander Gallery – Porto Cervo, Sardinia (IT)
Alarm 100hundert – Fleischmarkthalle – Karlsruhe (DE)
A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss – Bark Berlin Gallery – Berlin (DE)
Spring – Fondation Thalie – Brussels (BE)
Points of Resistance – Kleiner von Wiese – Berlin (DE)
2020
Biennale Gherdëina 7 – curated by Adam Budak – Ortisei (IT)
Restons Unis – Galerie Perrotin – Paris (FR)
Multiple Visions – Sorry We`re Closed – Brussels (BE)
Five Year Anniversary Show – Nino Mier Gallery – Los Angeles (US)
pre sent tense – galerie frank elbaz – Dallas (US)
Beyond Elysium – Kleiner von Wiese – Berlin (DE)
2019
FIAC Hors les murs – Jardin des Tuileries – Paris (FR)
Abundo en Felices curiosidades – Espacio Valverde – Madrid (ES)
Betes des Scenes – Fondation Villa Datris – L`Isle sur la Sorgue (FR)
Just so Stories – Nosbaum Reding – Luxembourg (LUX)
Enigma Pinocchio – Villa Bardini – Florenz (IT)
Bonum et Malum – Kleiner von Wiese – Berlin (DE)
A Snake without a Head is just a Rope – Sim Smith Gallery – London (UK)
Come a little closer – Feinkunst Krüger – Hamburg (DE)
2018
Les Sablent Mouvants – Espace a Vendre – Nizza (FR)
Für Immer Blau – Waldsteige – Duisburg (DE)
Un Futur Enchanteur – Le Consulat Paris – Paris (FR)
Ngorongoro 2 – Berlin (DE)
Die Nächte des Heliogabalus – Schlachthaus – Berlin (DE)
Touch Wood – Sorry We`re Closed – Artbrussels – Brussels (BE)
The Gathering – Panthera. Today – Brussels (BE)
Atre Noah – Kunsthalle Feldbach – Feldbach (AT)
White Blood, Blue Night – La Traverse – centre d'art contemporain d'Alfortville, Alfortville (FR)
Schwarzer Flamingo – Galerie Knut Hartwich – Sellin (DE)
Sneaky Paradise – Lachenmann Art – Konstanz (DE)
…..kein Thema – Kwadrat – Berlin (DE)
2017
FIAC Hors les murs – Jardin des Tuileries – Paris (FR)
Landscapes of Loss/Verschwindende Landschaften – Bundesumweltministerium – Berlin (DE)
La Table Ronde – Diskurs Berlin e.V. – Berlin (DE)
Es geht voran – Galerie Sandra Bürgel – Berlin (DE)
Runter von den Marmorklippen! – Kwadrat – Berlin (DE)
Berlin Klondyke – Soeht 7 – Berlin (DE)
Striche, Kreise, Landschaft, Preise – SCHAU FENSTER Raum für Kunst – Berlin (DE)
You are my Heroes – Sorry We`re Closed – Artbrussels – Brussels (BE)
2016
Ganz grosses Kino, Kino International, Berlin
Green Doesn`t Sell, Sorry We`re Closed, Brussels at Art Brussels
Sweat Shop, Schaufenster, Berlin
Zurück in die Zukunft, Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Berlin
De Lirio, Braubach Five, Frankfurt am Main
2015
The Good Estrella,OTR Espacio de Arte, Madrid
Surrealism goes Bananas, Sorry We?re Closed,Brussels at Art Brussels
NGORONGORO, Atelier Jonas Burgert, artist-weekend Berlin
2014
Im Dschungel, Kunstverein Familie Montez, Frankfurt/Main
Emotional Rescue, Emotional Rescue Shows, Berlin
Mal wieder Freitag der 13., Idling Gallery, Berlin
Aus dem Fundus der botanischen Semantik, Cruise & Callas, Berlin
Fashion Week, Kreuzberg Pavillon, Berlin
2013
Black Friday, by Melina Volkmann, Yorckstraße, Berlin
Apokalyptik als Widerstand - Die Sammlung Tom Biber im Bayrischen Armeemuseum, Bayrisches Armeemuseum, Ingolstadt
Benefit auction, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen
Black Friday, curated by Melina Volkmann, Yorckstraße 59, Berlin
Cinque Garzoni II - Piccola Germania, Cinque Garzoni, Venice, Lido, Italy
The legend of the shelves, Autocenter, Berlin
2012
Chains, Horse, Berlin
Zwischenzone, Galerie Stephanie Bender, Munich
Party Arty, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin
Artists of the Gallery, Cruise & Callas, Berlin
A house is not a home, Sorry we're closed, Brussels
2011
Monotonie-Melancholie, glue @ Schaufenster, Berlin
Dooms day for Cussler Family, Cussler, Berlin
Summen spüren, Pflügerstr. 70, Berlin
The Dicks + Bonus Material, Teapot, Cologne
Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle, U 37 - Raum für Kunst, Berlin
The Cannibal?s Muse II, curated by Max Henry, Autocenter, Based in Berlin, Monbijou Park, Berlin (C)
Train Fantôme, Cruise & Callas, Berlin
Hotspot Berlin, Georg-Kolbe-Museum, Berlin (C)
The Magic Sexy Templeloch of Wonderspirit, Wonderloch Kellerland, Berlin
Verbrechen und Bild, curated by Friedemann Hahn and Wendelin Renn, Ringstube, Mainz
Künstlerverein Walkmühle, Wiesbaden, Städtische Galerie, Villingen-Schwenningen (C)
The Magic Sexy Templeloch of Wonderspirit, Wonderloch Kellerland, Berlin
The Black Goddess, curated by Rick Buckley, Autocenter, Berlin
La Vallée Patibulaire, Berlin
When love comes down... ... word becomes flesh, Cussler, Berlin
2010
Step in the Arena, Quartier Eurobahnhof, Saarbrücken
Barbaric Freedom, curated by Anne Pontegnie, Simon Lee Gallery, London
The Cannibal's Muse, curated by Max Henry, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaat
100% le Vent des Fôrets, Fresnes-au-Mont, France
Art Barter, .HBC, Berlin
Ein Fest für Boris, Vittorio Manalese, Berlin (C)
2009
Schickeria - High Society, BDA-Ausstellungsraum, Braunschweig (C)
You will miss me when I burn, Montgomery, Berlin
Transzendenz Inc, Forgotten Bar Project, Berlin
The Sequel (Part II), Cinque Garzoni, Venice
Bank of Eden, Whitechapel Berlin, Berlin
Artgerecht, Villa am See, Tornow
Diesseits der Alpen: Hunger Jenseits der Alpen: Durst, Hadlichstrasse 44, Berlin
2008
First Selection, Cruise & Callas, Berlin
Avant-Garden ? Busan Sculpture Project, Busan Biennale, Busan, South Korea
Berlin Bouqet, The Living Room, Amsterdam
The Kirchner Show, Kornhaus, Aschaffenburg
Sorry we're closed, Brussels
2007
Stranger than Paradise , Galerie Charlotte Moser, Geneva
Unsere Affekte fliegen aus dem Bereich der Wirklichkeit heraus, Galerie Sandra Bürgel, Berlin
Blaue Augen, Showroom, Berlin
The present order ist the disorder of the future, Museum De Hallen, Haarlem, Netherlands
Die Nacht der süßen Bienen, Schickeria, Berlin
De Vreemdeling, Centrum Bildende Kunst, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2006
Wir hätten das Land gern weit und rund und Sie, Showroom, Berlin
The Glass Bead Game, Vilma Gold Project Space, Berlin
2005
Grün ist das neue Schwarz, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
Kir Royal, Schickeria, Berlin
Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin
2004
Malerei, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart
2002
Die Superzelle, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
2001
Heimsteinwerk, Heidelberg
Y2K, Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben, Berlin
Je ne regrette desire, Gesellschaft der Freunde junger Kunst, Baden-Baden
2000
Hobbypopmuseum, Düsseldorf