Ricarda Roggan
Offerte
03.08. – 25.10.2021

Outdoor exhibition

The Kunstverein Bremerhaven von 1886 e.V. is presenting photographs by artist Ricarda Roggan in the city of Bremerhaven in an obvious and at the same time quite natural, almost incidental manner. Since the beginning of August, the motifs from her six-part photo series “Offerte” (2016) have been on display on various billboards in changing hangings and of varying duration at various streets and intersections.

Ricarda Roggan (born 1972) initially studied photography at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig and was a master student of Prof. Timm Rautert. From 2003 to 2005, she studied art at the Royal Collage of Art in London, graduating with a Master of Arts. Ricarda Roggan has held a professorship for photography at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart since 2013. Since her studies at the beginning of the 2000s, her photographic works have been shown in solo and group exhibitions in Germany and abroad, for example at the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, the Museum Folkwang, the National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo, the Biennale de la Photographie et des Arts visuels de Liège, Belgium, the Bundeskunsthalle, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt and the Philara Collection in Düsseldorf.

In Bremerhaven, photographs by Ricarda Roggan can now be seen outside for the first time. These show various everyday objects, such as cables, plugs, yarn and other things, which are presented to the camera by two hands. For her presentation on the billboards, Ricarda Roggan enlarged the rather small-format photographs (33 x 40 cm) to the size of the outdoor advertising. There, the photographs, choreographed down to the last detail, hold their own in a remarkable way despite their enlargement. On the one hand, the motif of the Offerte echoes that of the advertisement. On the other hand, the situation remains open without text or reference. Photographically, Ricarda Roggan’s clear shots form a pool of calm in the multifaceted and multicolored surroundings of the house walls and “market-screaming” advertising posters.

Curated by Dr. Kai Kähler.