Ralph Ueltzhoeffer (born 15 May 1966) is a German conceptual sculptor, photographer (Project Textportrait) and an internationally exhibited

installation art Installation art is an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific art, site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior intervent ...

ist. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts at Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Karlsruhe by

Horst Antes Horst Antes (born 28 October 1936 Heppenheim, Germany) is a German artist and sculptor. Early life and education After his Abitur, he studied from 1957 to 1959 under the important woodcutter HAP Grieshaber at the Akademie der Bildenden Kün ...

. Ueltzhoeffer was born in

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, Germany, lives and works currently in London and

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. His work has been exhibited in museums and expositions including the Shanghai Biennale "Rehearsal" (2010) and

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Forum, Unkel. Artwork: In 2002 Ralph Ueltzhoeffer creates the first biographical-

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(Textportrait "

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") and released them via Internet (2005). The popularity of textportraits got most fame by the death of

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, thereupon the US software company Adobe developed a plugin for

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CS. Ueltzhoeffer's artistic research is dedicated to the relationship of visual and written information in the digital sphere and their relevance for the beliefs one produces from these data. His search for new forms synchronizing visual and written information reacts and reflects on the internet as an open and central source of information in times of

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and digitalization of data.

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