Ruth Hommelsheim studied photography in Darmstadt, Germany and now lives and works in Berlin and since 2020 also in London. In 2007 she co-founded Loris Gallery, a collective and discursive platform for visual, societal, political and social implementations of artistic questions. The project existed for 10 years with more than 100 exhibitions and numerous talks, lecture, concerts etc. Hommelsheim’s work has been exhibited throughout Germany, Europe and China.
While her main medium is photography, Ruth Hommelsheim exceeds the boundaries of the medium, reflecting on its condition and thereby transgressing the purely documentary approach. In addition to photography, she incorporates further media and techniques into her work such as overpainting, drawing and installation. Besides her longtime research on urbanity, another focal point of her work is the profound investigation of information extracted from archives.
1965 born in Göppingen/Germany
1986–92 studied Photography at FH Darmstadt, Diploma
since 1989 exhibitions in Germany and abroad
lives and works in Berlin and London
Selected solo exhibitions
2018/19 Landschaft und Erinnerung, mit Peter Dreher und Jyrki Parantainen, Galerie Wagner+Partner, Berlin
2017 concrete doubt, Galerie Loris Berlin
2016 Dreamland II | widmertheodoridis, Eschlikon, Switzerland
2016 Nach der Natur, Raumsechs, Düsseldorf
2015 Dreamland, Galerie Loris Berlin
2013 Nach der Natur (After Nature), Galerie Loris Berlin
2012 Urban Notations [Barbican], CasperMuellerKneer, London
Res Publica (with Ulrike Ludwig), Galerie Loris Berlin
2011 Versammlungen (Assemblies), Galerie Loris Berlin
Ordnungen (with Sophie Kreidt), Bis Zentrum Mönchengladbach
2010 Urbane Landschaften (Urban Landscapes), Wildthurner Kunsttage, Landau/Isar
2009 Urban Notations [Wuhan], Galerie Loris Berlin
2008 Sie kehrt um und lacht (mit S. Zevallos), Galerie Loris Berlin
2007 Bewahrungen (Perpetuations), Galerie Loris Berlin
2000 Un_folded sites, Installation, Museum Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt
1998 Die dunkle Nacht der Seele [Jona-Projekt], Studio Kunsthalle Darmstadt
Selected group exhibitions
2021 RÄUME XS/HALLEN #2, Wilhelmhallen, Berlin
2019 Überblick Fotografie, Galerie Raumsechs, Düsseldorf
2019 to put on paper, Errant Sound Project Space, Berlin
2019 Show your Darling IV - Wildnis, Atelier Sabien Wild, Berlin
2019 Postcard Salon, Jarvis Dooney Galerie, Berlin
2018 Räume 2, Gießerei Winkelhoff, Berlin
2018 Architektur und Landschaft, Galerie Raumsechs, Düsseldorf
2018 Postcard Salon, Jarvis Dooney Galerie, Berlin
2017 Geiler Block, St. Gallen/Trogen/Switzerland
2016 Liaison, Uferhallen, Berlin
2016 Geiler Block, St. Gallen/Trogen/Switzerland
2016 For a moment, nothing happened, Galerie Loris Berlin
2016 12 ISSUES | TOWARD THE unKNOW, b2_Leipzig
2015 Specialists always accomplish the extraordinary, Galerie Loris, Berlin
11 ISSUES | DISPLAyCING THE PRESENT, Galerie Loris, Berlin
2014–15 Den Kompromiss mit der Wirklichkeit..., EIKON Schaufenster, Europ. Month of Photography, Vienna
2014 Aus gutem Grund, Galerie Widmer&Theodoridis, Eschlikon, Schweiz
Anlanden, Galerie Loris Berlin
Unterwegs nach dem Mehr, D21 Kunstraum Leipzig
Land in Sicht, Galerie Loris Berlin
2013 The Way Things are, Union Gallery London
Die Dinge 4 | Um-Ordnung, Kunstverein Schwedt (Katalog)
Nach Lage der Dinge, Galerie Loris Berlin
Dezemberausstellung, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
2012 in transit - Der Blick der anderen, Ostkreuz, Europ. Monat der Fotografie, Berlin
Platon, schenk mir dein Lächeln, Galerie Loris Berlin
[Breitseite - Im Fokus: Raum, Villa Merkel Esslingen (Katalog)
2011 in transit, Galerie Loris Berlin
The best of all possible words, Carpe Diem Art & Research, Lissabon
2010 diamonds & pearls, Galerie Loris Berlin
2009 Gemeinsam in Bewegung, Wuhan, China (Katalog)
Nadie in es espejo | Niemand im Spiegel?
Geschichten, Künstlerhaus Bonn
2007 Die beste aller möglichen Welten, Galerie Loris Berlin
Sie regieren das Tal, Galerie Loris Berlin
2006 Somewhere else - Anderswo, Kunsthalle Göppingen
2005 Stille, Kloster Knechtsteden bei Köln (Katalog)
Orient-Okzident, Wanderausstellung Gedok/Goethe Institut:Karlsruhe, Bonn, Berlin,
München, Bukarest, Temeswar, Rabat, Casablanca, Ifrane, Rabat, Tanger, (Katalog)
2002 Auseinandersetzung mit realen und fiktiven Räumen, Stapelhaus Köln (Katalog)
2001 Perplex - Positionen und Perspektiven, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn (Katalog)
Grants and awards
2013 artist residency at Villa Sträuli, Winterthur
2002–03 1. price in competition Art & Architecture in Erfurt
2000 artist residency at Gedok-Atelierhaus Lübeck
1993–95 Charlotte-Prinz-scholarship for young art, Darmstadt