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As a native of Munich, Wolfram Ruoff began his professional career as a instructor at the Workshop Union. He later received a degree in Architecture from the Technical University of Munich, which fueled him to open an independent architecture and photography practice in 1993.

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In this series the photographer presents a new vision of the meaning of space in a time where people balance their lives in the area between reality and virtual existence.

Modern technologevy creates a disjointed reality. We live differently in space and time simultaneously. The present is shorter than before, the space is smaller than before; it’s as if our identity is reduced in a single movement. People are stressed to find their own direction, their own way of life - a new place of isolation, of meeting or harmony, of what could be the future. This concept allows us to have other opportunities to create or find alternate spaces to escape from our nearest reality.

Wolfram Ruoff also refers to the philosopher Michel Foucault and his concept of heterotopia1, “where other places that are outside of all places translate a kind of counter space as a contestation of our environment or time.” In A Matter of Space, Ruoff creates a new combination or juxtaposition of space with the illusion of real space. Ruoff folds space around these passers-by, and thus makes visible the multiple interactions between them and their surroundings enhancing the fact that they are themselves molding the urban area as passers-by.The space is created in its three-dimensionality by virtue of movement and only then realized as a space. This renders possible an intense self-perception of the human being in a space that encloses and includes.Those interactions are confusing non-relationships and in apperception they are, at the same time, ways out of anonymity.

ExhibiTions:

2011 A Matter of Space, Sous Les Etoiles Gallery, New York, USA2009 Pure Lines, Sous Les Etoiles Gallery, New York, USA2009 Boxed, Stufenbau Gallery, Bern, Switzerland2008 Shanghai, Mumbai, Kalkutta, Carol Johnssen Gallery, Munich, Germany2007 Mumbai, Peripherie Arts, Bern-Ittigen, Germany2007 Shanghai, Godula Buchholz, Germany2007 Crosstalk, Webams Gallery2004 M4/BBK Bayern, Schwabmunchen, Germany2004 Großbildfotografie2003 Fotografien, Behringer Gallery, Munich, Germany

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6. Closed doors opened, 2010 42” x 28” Edition of 2/5+II $1,800 *

2. On the run, 2010 40” x 27” Edition of 2/5+II $1,800 *

7. Up and down reality, 2010 39” x 35.5” Edition of 2/5+II $1,800 *

5. Sentence to die, 2010 27” x 31.5” Edition of 2/5+II $1,800 *

1. A matter of space, 2008 72” x 48” Edition of 2/5+II $3,800 *

10. Unfold, 2011 68.5” x 23” Edition of 2/5+II $3,800 *

4. Space and counter space, 2010 42.5” x 28.5” Edition of 2/5+II $1,800 *

3. Beyond the lines, 2010 40” x 28” Edition of 2/5+II $1,800 *

8. Passing by, 2010 38.5” x 31” Edition of 2/5+II $1,800 *

9. Sheltered, 2010 40” x 30” Edition of 2/5+II $1,800 *

*Prices quoted do not include NY Sales Tax (tax will be added if applicable)

abouT ThE phoTographs dETails & pricEs



A Matter of Space, 2010



On the run, 2010



Beyond the lines, 2010



Space and counter space, 2010



Closed doors opened, 2010



Sentence to die, 2010



Up and down reality, 2010



Passing by, 2010



Sheltered, 2010



Unfold, 2011

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