Book Presentation
Out Of Bounds
Munich 2024 | Alexander Ratzing
17.01.2024 Faculty of Design, Hochschule München
On this planet, almost everything is designed by humans for humans. The houses we live in, the streets we walk on, and the places where we go to school, work, shop, exercise, and meet friends. Even the fields and forests around our cities are artificially constructed to serve our agricultural and economic needs. Strangely, there are also places that are completely artificially designed – but not for humans…
Vernissage
In der Schwebe II
Munich 2023 - Alexander Ratzing & Luca Daumüller
05.12. - 19.12.2023 at the Faculty of Design, Hochschule München
Our project is entitled “In der Schwebe” and deals with the feelings and individual states that arise from being in suspension. Every person floats a little somewhere, is or has been in a transformative phase or in a general limbo between being and non-being. The question now is, where do you feel afloat? Change is omnipresent, whether in everyday private or job life. It accompanies us throughout our lives and ensures that we as humans constantly have to face new challenges. This scares many people, brings uncertainty with it and even causes panic in some. But change can also mean hope for improvement and creates space for new possibilities, ideas and solutions. With our project we want to make this uncertainty visible in society, document fears and hopes and establish connections that ultimately affect us all. In this way we create a feeling of community and connection with which we can look towards the future with hope.
Book Presentation
SUPERBOOKS 4
Haus der Kunst, Munich 2023 | We All Go The Same
03.11. - 04.11.2023 Haus der Kunst, Munich
On November 3rd and 4th, over 50 artists, designers and alternative publishers as well as three universities will show their current productions in the Haus der Kunst. In addition to producers from Germany, exhibitors from Spain, Italy, France, Austria, England, Belgium, the Netherlands and South Korea are also represented this year. The participants see themselves in the tradition of the 1960s, when new communication and distribution networks were formed in the post-avant-garde art scene. The products such as artist books, magazines or zines are autonomous works of art. Together with the "Peripheral Landscapes" class and Prof. Dr. Sue Barr, I will present my photo book “We All Go The Same” and sell different 8x10 prints in a limited edition of 10.
https://www.hausderkunst.de/veranstaltungen/super-books-4-2
https://www.alexander-ratzing.de/we-all-go-the-same
Exhibition
We All Go The Same
Munich 2023 | Jahresausstellung, Faculty of Design, Hochschule München
20.07. - 23.07.2023 Faculty of Design, Hochschule München
As part of the "Peripheral Landscapes" course together with Prof. Dr. Sue Barr, I was able to exhibit my photo book "We All Go the Same" together with the project class at the annual exhibition of the Faculty of Design at Hochschule München. Several 30x40 prints as well as the bound book itself were on display. A limited edition of 20 is still available for sale. "We All Go the Same" is an exploration of the unseen. Strange observations of various chapels, churches and other rural places in the bavarian countryside. Dancing shadows on the wall, a glimpse beyond this world. Tales of a dark summer.
Title: We All Go The Same
Publisher: Self-Published
Language: English
Binding: Adhesive Binding
Paper: 120g/m² Munken Print White 15 Inner / 250g/m² Cover
Size: 210 mm x 210 mm
Pages: 70
Price: 35,- €
Limited Edition of 20 (First Edition)
https://www.alexander-ratzing.de/we-all-go-the-same
https://www.jahresausstellung.com
Exhibition
Nowhere — Now Here
Munich 2023 | Alexander Ratzing, Antonia Albert, Luca Daumüller, Maxi Strauch
28.06.2023 Faculty of Design, Hochschule München
In a world in which we constantly find ourselves caught between distraction and self-discovery, this project deals with the opposites of clarity and the indistinct, sensory overload and mindfulness. This project was displayed as a group exhibition at Munich Faculty of Design mid 2023 together with Antonia Albert, Luca Daumüller and Maxi Strauch. Video Credits: © Luca Daumüller
https://www.alexander-ratzing.de/-nowhere-now-here
Vernissage
In der Schwebe, 10 Portraits
Munich 2023 | Alexander Ratzing & Luca Daumüller
31.05. - 14.06.2023 Faculty of Design, Hochschule München
Our project is entitled “In der Schwebe” and deals with the feelings and individual states that arise from being in suspension. Every person floats a little somewhere, is or has been in a transformative phase or in a general limbo between being and non-being. The question now is, where do you feel afloat? Change is omnipresent, whether in everyday private or job life. It accompanies us throughout our lives and ensures that we as humans constantly have to face new challenges. This scares many people, brings uncertainty with it and even causes panic in some. But change can also mean hope for improvement and creates space for new possibilities, ideas and solutions. With our project we want to make this uncertainty visible in society, document fears and hopes and establish connections that ultimately affect us all. In this way we create a feeling of community and connection with which we can look towards the future with hope.
Participants: Franz Schmid, Klaus Grittner, Teodora Apostolescu, Berko Öbbers, Elisa Nieschalk, Antonia Albert, Julia Schneider, Lena-Maria Stupitzky, Noah Cremer, Sarah Leuchtenberg, Sabrina Lamboy-Lößl, Jenny Weber
Book Presentation
Hoher Himmel, weites Land
Baltic Sea 2022 | Alexander Ratzing | Personal Project
19.12. - 23.12.2022 Faculty of Design, Hochschule München
As part of the “Zeig Dein Zeug” initiative, I was able to present and sell my first zine “Hoher Himmel, weites Land”, which deals with a personal project from the summer of 2022, at the Faculty of Design at Munich University of Applied Sciences. The project documents the revisiting of various childhood vacation spots on the coast of the Baltic Sea. The First Edition is already sold out. A Second Edition (Limited Edition of 50) is still available to buy.
Title: Hoher Himmel, weites Land
Publisher: Self-Published
Language: German
Binding: Open Stitch Binding
Paper: 100g/m2 Enviro Polar
Size: 176 mm x 250 mm
Pages: 40
Price: 25,- €
Limited Edition of 50 (Second Edition)
Publication
Hinterlands Magazine No. 3
The Green Issue 2022/23 | Fibers of Being
Series of Gabriele Plappert in cooperation with Hiddenland and Fibershed DACH
Publication
WERDE Magazine Coverstory
Summer Edition of 2022 | Kunzenhof Freiburg
Reportage of Gabriele Plappert “Im Färbergarten” in cooperation with Hiddenland
The Kunzenhof is located in Freiburg im Breisgau. Farmer Gabriele Plappert has been living and working here in the rhythm of the seasons for more than 30 years. In harmony with nature and its cycles. She passes on the wealth of the simple life. - Im Färbergarten, Cover for WERDE Magazine 2/22