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About

Ralph Collier (° 1990, BE) makes film installations, sculptures, photographs and exhibitions.

 

In his artistic practice, Collier explores the nature of the image, the exhibition and reality by disrupting their constitutive components. He carefully manipulates their fundamental or formal characteristics, plays with their parameters. Hence, he raises questions about the value and meaning of images; how they are read and understood in a time of 'image overload'

EDUCATION

2020 - 2021

BATAC,

Thomas More, Mechelen, BE

2016 - 2017

Postgraduate Curatorial Studies,

School of Arts KASK, Ghent, BE

2012 - 2016

Bachelor and Master Fine Arts,

St. Lucas School of Arts, Antwerp, BE

INTERNSHIP

2021

Diplodokus, BE

2017

Studio Anri Sala, Berlin, GER

AWARDS & GRANTS

2023

Scenariosteun documentaire 'Empire Of Lies', ism Diplodokus

Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds (VAF)

2023

Productiesteun docureeks 'Aanwinst', ism Borgerhoff & Lamberigts TV

Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds (VAF)

2022

Ontwikkelingsteun docureeks 'Aanwinst',

Sabam for culture

2013

1st place

Concordia Concours,

PAK Gistel, BE

INSTAGRAM

@collier.ralph

@contemporary.toilet

E-MAIL

ralph@ralphcollier.com

He undermines the time- and place-bound conventions of exhibitions, so that it is not always clear what exactly could be seen or happened. In a similar way, he explores the boundaries between reality and fiction, thereby evoking doubts between what is true and what is not, by playing on the perception. These considerations and remarks often materialize in a single visual gesture, a succinct spatial intervention, an exceptional process residue.

 

Written by Eline Verstegen

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018

Peripheral Vision,

Tique Art Space, Antwerp, BE

2016

Testifying of a real random encounter,

Van Der Mieden Gallery, Antwerp, BE

2015

The Shakespeare Mystery, Antwerp, BE

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024

Aanwinst (curator),

C-Mine Genk, BE

2022

Time and Again,

curated by Melanie Bühler

M Leuven, BE

2021

TRACES,

curated by Clarisse Bruynbroeck,

Eline Verstegen & Veerle Wenes

Valerie Traan Gallery, Antwerp, BE

 

2019 - 2020

Nature Morte - Nature Vivante,

co-curated with Veerle Wenes & Françoise Foulon, 

CID au Grand-Hornu, BE

2019

Le Quotidien,

Valerie Traan Gallery, Antwerp, BE

2019

KONVOOI,

Het Entrepot, Bruges, BE

2019

Fake Flowers,

co-curated with Clarisse Bruynbroeck,

Valerie Traan Gallery, Antwerp, BE

2019

(...) - Alternating Narratives (curator),

St. Lucas School of Arts, Antwerp, BE

2018

chapter one ≈ chapter one,

with co-curated with Clarisse Bruynbroeck,

Damiano Curschellas & Karen Amanda Moser,

BIKINI, Basel, CH

2017

En cours d’installation,

co-curated with Clarisse Bruynbroeck,

Valerie Traan, Rivoli, Brussels, BE

2017

Rabbit Is The New Beef,

co-curated with May Lie Basyn, Phyllis Dierick,

Marta Janakakisz, Maud Oonk & Olivier Van D'huynslager,

KASK, Ghent, BE                

 

2016 - 2017

Marres Currents #4: Running Time,

curated by Barbara Cueto & Bas Hendrikx

Marres, Maastricht, NL

2014

Jeu, Factor 44, Antwerp, BE  

 

2013

Concordia Concours, PAK, Gistel, BE

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