Ruth Habermehl »Reviere/ Habitats«
Fotocollagen | Cut Outs

Exhibition opening: June 22, 2007 at 7 pm
Exhibition lasts: June 22 - September 8, 2007

June 23, 2007 at 4 pm:
Verena Landau and Ruth Habermehl conduct a tour for the Friends of the Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig.

We are pleased to present »Reviere/ Habitats«, a solo exhibition by Ruth Habermehl, at Filipp Rosbach Galerie gallery.

The photo-collages and c-prints of the artist Ruth Habermehl, who was born in 1969 in Landau in the Palatinate region and who currently lives in Leipzig, present beautiful worlds. The order that they offer is full of fractures. They display idylls what could not be more unreal, and yet they seem plausible: wanderers, people dressed up for Sunday outings, beach vacationers, and forest rangers move against backdrops of high mountain peaks, wild water, and lush flowers. In these site-less and timeless universal landscapes, wish and reality have become one to such a degree that the absurd and the grotesque no longer astonish us. The recognition effect is calculated. The beautiful pictures tip over when the missing contexts become apparent. Ruth Habermehl works with a nostalgic personnel. She uses photo material from discarded photo books, calendars, and magazines - usually from the 1950s to 1970s. While in the collages the artist hides the cuts in the pictorial structure, and in the subsequent c-prints even makes them undetectable, in the new decollage-collages, shown for the first time, they are demonstratively presented as fissures.
Ruth Habermehl explores grids of perception and patterns of behavior. She plays with clichés - sometimes as joyfully ironically as in the object boxes she has titled »Checked Images of Women«.
The exhibition shows a selection of collages, c-prints, and objects from recent years and the artist's first installation.
Sigrun Hellmich

The exhibition is open Tuesday to Saturday from 11am to 6pm
For additional information and viewing appointments, call: 0172. 373 11 10.
Josef Filipp, Michaela Rosbach, and Jörg Rosbach look forward to your visit.