Michael Ritzmann

My artistic practice is grounded in a sustained investigation of the relationship between form, material, and spatial context. Working across sculpture, painting, installation, and site-responsive intervention, I examine how objects, surfaces, and constructed environments can be transformed through processes of formal disruption and material reconfiguration. Central to this practice is an engagement with industrial matter, found structures, and traditional pictorial supports, all of which I subject to procedures such as welding, cutting, bending, layering, and painterly intervention. Through these acts of transformation, I develop works that resist fixed categorical distinctions: they oscillate between object and image, construction and intuition, stability and fragmentation, the mechanical and the organic. What emerges is a sculptural language in which material tension, spatial articulation, and formal ambiguity become the primary carriers of meaning

2017–2024 Fine Arts, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
2025 Diploma of Fine Arts, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (Prof. Björn Dahlem / Dr. Thomas Fuchs)

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023 Notagallery, Berlin
2019 Steel Magnolia, Hammerschmidt & Gladigau, Erfurt
2019 Frommannscher Skulpturengarten, Jena
2014 Swing Hail, Kunsthalle Waidspeicher, Erfurt
2012 Kunsthalle, Weimar
2011 Galerie Neosyne, Trier

Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 Jmesworld, Berlin
2024 Kunsthalle ,Erfurt 2023 ATM Gallery, Berlin
2022 Notagallery, Berlin 2020 Galerie Rothammel, Erfurt
2019 101Neukoelln, Berlin 2018 Splash Festival, Gräfenhainichen 2018 Summaery, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
2018 Monumenta, Leipzig / Berlin Mural Fest
2017 The Haus – Berlin Art Bang, Berlin
2017 Millerntor Gallery, Hamburg
2016 Auf Augenhöhe, City Hall Dresden
2015 Hieronymus Bosch Anniversary Tribute Exhibition, Museum voor Vlakglas, Ravenstein (NL)
2015 Ostrale Biennale, Dresden
2013 Museums at Night, Stuttgart
2012 Ruhr Biennale, Duisburg
2011 Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
2011 Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo

Collections
Collection jmesworld, Berlin
Collection Shaul Shani, Berlin
Collection of the City of Erfurt
Collection of the City of Mainz
Collection of the Diocese of Trier

Scholarships 2018 Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Thüringen