About__________________________________________

Ralph´s interest is based on the observation of today’s society phenomena by taking his surroundings and his personal life as a reference to query everyday situations with ambiguous and often ironic artworks. To create his art installations he is working with electronics, interactivity, optical effects or kinetic objects.
By using technology and multimedia like bare tools to enrich the possibilities of artistic expression, he rather prefers low cost, recycling and DIY to be able to keep the maximum autonomy in his projects.

Prizes and Scholarships

2011
New Face Award, Japan Media Arts Festival, Japan (with Jan M. Sieber)
2006
Second Prize, Bienal regional de Artes Plásticas, Tenerife
Scholarship of Investigation: Caja Canarias para Postgraduados convocatoria 2006
2005/06
Scholarship of Sócrates/ Universita IUAV de Venezia (Italia)/Profesor Antoni Muntadas
2002/03
Scholarship Séneca/ Facultad de Bellas Artes/ Universidad de Barcelona (UB)
2001
Scholarship Sócrates/ Akademie der Bildenden Künste/ Munich / Profesor Olaf Metzel

Group exhibitions (selection last four years)

2010
"Shadow Dance", Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, Netherlands
“PikselSavers”, Meta.Morf biennial, KIT Gallery, Trondheim, Norway
"On/Off", Circulo de Bellas Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
2009
Das Festival zur Bauhausbühne,"Figurenräume – Raumfiguren",Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, Germany
"Línea Blanca(Siglo XXI: Una nueva ética)",ArteLanzarote 2009,V Encuentro Bienal.Ermita de San Antonio Tías*
whiteclub #4, "Discoveries and Inventions", ehemalige Mediathek, Salzburg, Austria*
"Hier spricht das Mobiliar", Medienrundgang, Bauhaus Universität Weimar
"90 anni di Bauhaus", Goethe Institut Roma, Italy
"Crash!Boom!Bau!", Festival für Neue Szenografie, Theaterhaus Jena, Germany
2008
paraflows08: UTOPIA, MAK Gegenwartskunstdepot, Gefechtsturm Ahrenbergpark, Viena, Austria*
"25ft", IES Cabrera Pinto, La Laguna, Tenerife*
"8.1", Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria *
2007
"Hello Hackability", Piksel 07, Gallery 3.14, Bergen, Norway
Fotonoviembre/ Atlánticas Colectivas, Santa Cruz de Tenerife*
Arco 07, Madrid*

Individual exhibitions and Public Interventions (selection)
2010 "Progeso y Bienestar",Casa-Museo Gutiérrez Albelo,Convento de San Francisco,Icod de los Vinos,Spain
2009 "Cuentos Chinos",Proyecto 60, TEA, Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Spain
2006 “Das ewige Verlangen der Deutschen nach dem Lebensgefühl des Südens”, Park an der Ilm, Weimar*
2002 Universidad de LaLaguna (sala de exposiciones de la facultad de ciencias de la información)

Workshops(selection)
Given:
2011 Introducción a Arduino y PureData (together with Rafael Hidalgo),University of LaLaguna, Tenerife
2010 Einführungskurs Arduino, Steuerungstechnik für Kunst Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden, Germany
2009 Introduction to Arduino, TEA, Tenerife Espacio de las Artes
2006 Introduction to Physical Computing and Interactive Electronics, University of LaLaguna, Tenerife
Attended:
2003 Sonorous Art and Space, CCCB, Barcelona (by Alex Arteaga, UdK Berlin)

Curated Exhibitions:

2008 Interventiones 08 , “Between Memories and Expectations”, Guia de Isora, Tenerife.

*catalogue