【EX-454】Volker Renner

Area | EXHIBITION SPACE

Country | GERMANY

Volker Renner (b. 1977) lives and works in Hamburg. After studying applied cultural studies in Lüneburg, he enrolled at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg (HFBK) to obtain a degree in visual communication and rounded out his education in Peter Piller’s master class at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig (HGB). His work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions and at festivals and art fairs.

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The series and the collection are the basic registers of Volker Renner’s creative practice. The individual photograph is always a module in a larger visual syntax; each motif, a clue that contributes to a shared narrative.Renners works contemplate the margins of entertainment, the blurry edges of the trivial, and the irritations of simulated genuineness, extending the arc traced by Renner’s earlier projects, which unfurl a panorama of illusions and aspirations, from the Eurovision Song Contest to Las Vegas and Columbo, from dime novels to Jackson Pollock. Not coincidentally, the photobook is Renner’s preferred format—each series is gathered in a meticulously designed publication, an album of intimate wonderment.

Volker Renner (b. 1977) lives and works in Hamburg. After studying applied cultural studies in Lüneburg, he enrolled at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg (HFBK) to obtain a degree in visual communication and rounded out his education in Peter Piller’s master class at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig (HGB). His work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions and at festivals and art fairs, including at Galerie der Gegenwart/Kunsthalle Hamburg, Sammlung Falckenberg, Kunsthaus Wien, Vienna; Weserburg, Bremen; Art Cologne; Kunstmuseum Bochum; Art Basel; Arthur Boskamp Stiftung; the Benaki Museum, Athens; and Hamburger Kunstverein. Since 2007, Renner has published more than twenty artist’s books, released by Textem Verlag.