Kurt Ralske
, New York City, U.S.A. — Lives and works in New York City, U.S.A.
Kurt Ralske is a video artist who uses digital distortions to question the inner foundations of our process of visual perception and historical memory. His video installations and performances enact a dialogue with history: an exploration of the past that proposes a new view of the future. Alongside his art practice, Ralske is active as an improvising musician and composer. He is also the author and programmer of Auvi, a popular video software environment in use by artists in 22 countries.
Kurt Ralske has done live video performances in several institutions including Guggenheim Bilbao, Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles (MOCA), Museum of the Moving Image in New York, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, and Malmö Konsthall. During the Venice Biennale of 2009, 2015 and 2017, Ralske’s work was included in the group exhibitions In-Finitum, PROPORTIO, and INTUITION at Palazzo Fortuny.
About Kurt Ralske
It is not that the past casts its light on the present, or the present casts its light on the past: rather an image is that in which the Then and the Now come into a constellation like a flash of lightning.