Ivo Ringe (born July 5, 1951) is a German artist, who is classified as a

concrete art Concrete art was an art movement with a strong emphasis on geometrical abstraction. The term was first formulated by Theo van Doesburg and was then used by him in 1930 to define the difference between his vision of art and that of other abstract ar ...

painter, whose works can also be categorized as

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and

Hard-edge painting Hard-edge painting (also referred to as Hard Edge or Hard-edged) is painting in which abrupt transitions are found between color areas. Color areas often consist of one unvarying color. The Hard-edge painting style is related to Geometric abstra ...

. He is also a

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and a

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of international group exhibitions. Ringe lives and works in Cologne, Germany. He is a member of the Deutscher Künstlerbund. Ringe is married to the US-American sculptor Heather Sheehan.

Life and work

In 1972 Ringe began studying

sculpture Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under the instruction of professor

Joseph Beuys Joseph Heinrich Beuys ( ; ; 12 May 1921 – 23 January 1986) was a German artist, teacher, performance artist, and Aesthetics, art theorist whose work reflected concepts of humanism and sociology. With Heinrich Böll, , Caroline Tisdall, Rober ...

. Like Imi Knoebel and Blinky Palermo, Ringe belongs to the

Minimal art Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is set out to expose the essence, essentials or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms, features or conc ...

movement among Beuys' students. Kunst von Ivo Ringe Titel Evolve.jpg, "Evolve" , Etching on handmade paper, 1977 Kunst von Ivo Ringe Titel Sechseck Bewegung.jpg, "Sechseck" ("Hexagon"), glazed ceramic, 1976 Ivo Ringe Sechseck III.jpg, "Sechseck III" ("Hexagon III"),

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–Etching
on handmade paper, 1976 A 1992 fire in his studio destroyed many of his works. Since 2008, Ringe has been a lecturer in the fields of drawing and illustration technique at the Academy of Design "Ecosign", founded by Karin-Simone Fuhs. Since 2011, he is docent and since 2014 artistic director of the studio for fine arts ("Atelier für Bildende Kunst") at the

Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn The University of Bonn, officially the Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (), is a public research university in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the () on 18 October 1818 by Frederick Willi ...

. Ringe lives and works in Cologne, Germany. In 2015, Ringe had an extensive exhibition of his works at the ''Kunsthaus Rehau'' in Rehau, Germany, that inspired Eugen Gomringer to write a sonnet about his work. The

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and

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Amy Antin in 2020 released a song that deals with Ivo Ringe's artistic practice.

Collections

* Museum Katharinenhof, Kranenburg, Germany. Title: ''ELECTRIC CHAIR'', 2008 / Acrylic on canvas, 78 x 64 cm * Artothek Köln, Cologne, Germany, two paintings * Collection of Art, Cooperative Bank Offenburg, Germany * Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders Bergisch Gladbach, Germany

Solo exhibitions

* 1994: ''Ivo Ringe – Der Heilige Narr'', Stadtmuseum Siegburg, Siegburg, Germany * 2007: Artothek Köln, Cologne, Germany * 2018: ''Ivo Ringe: Or burst out from its confines and radiate'', Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, Penzance, England * 2023: ''Ivo Ringe: Südlicht'', Museum Lapidarium, Novigrad, Istria County, Croatia

Group exhibitions

* 2003: ''Die Achtsamkeit des Augenblicks - 5 Maler'', Neuer Kunstverein Aschaffenburg, Germany * 2008: ''NOW!'' Museum Katharinenhof, Kranenburg, Germany * 2011: ''Ornamental'', Städtische Galerie Lippstadt, Germany * 2013: ''Reticulate'', McKenzie Fine Art, New York, United States * 2014: ''Strukturen/Structures - Britische und Deutsche Malerei im Dialog'', Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Germany * 2014: ''Structures/Strukturen - British and German Painting in Dialogue'',

Newlyn Art Gallery Newlyn Art Gallery is a contemporary art gallery located in Newlyn, Cornwall, UK. Opened in 1895, designed by James Hicks of Redruth and financed by John Passmore Edwards the gallery was conceived as a home and exhibition venue for the Newlyn ...

, England * 2016: ''Restructured'', Newlyn Art Gallery, England * 2017: ''Painting Black'', Sammlung Schroth at the Museum Wilhelm Morgner, Soest, Germany * 2018: ''Structures Residency'', Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance, England * 2018: ''Grounds for Optimism'', Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, Penzance, England * 2023: ''Us Again: Encore Nous'' (7th Biennale Internationale Of Non Objective Art), Athens, Greece * 2024: ''3D. Wegweisende Plastik der konkreten Gegenwart'', Sammlung Schroth, Museum Wilhelm Morgner, Soest, Germany

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