Katja von Ruville

Frühling, 2020-2021, Acryl und Guache auf Leinwand, 270 x 140cm

Winterbaum, 2019, 130 × 100 cm, Acryl, Samen, Rosshaar, Kaolin auf Leinwand

Biography

Katja von Ruville, who grew up in Munich and the Rhineland, studied Art History in Oslo and Communication Design in Mainz. She has been working as a book designer for German publishers for 25 years. In 2003 she moved to Frankfurt and founded grassgrün* in 2006, her label for unique jewelry using resin and found objects. By then, her first light objects emerged, fragile works presented on lightboxes. From 2011 to 2018 she attended Merja Herzog-Hellstén’s sculpture class, partly at the Städelschule Adult Education Program, working with plaster, resin, porcelain and material from nature. Her work is fragile and transluscent.
Since 2018, Katja von Ruville has increasingly devoted herself to painting. In her new studio in Dreieich, she creates works in large scale, with nature continuing to be the main theme.

Selected Exhibitions

            2022
            Imaginary Landscapes, Duo Show with Kejoo Park, Galerie Uhn, Königstein

         2021

         Offene Ateliers, group exhibition with Nicola Barth und Frank Freytag,

         ART-Center Dreieich

         2020

         Searching for Freedom, group exhibition, Stadtgalerie Bad Soden

         am Taunus

         2020

            Handle with Care, group exhibition with CKCK, Kelly O'Brien, Claudia Grom

            and Chris Kircher, Galerie Uhn, Königstein

         2018

           FORMsache, student exhibition, sculpture class Merja Herzog-Hellstén,

            RegioMuseum Seligenstadt

            2017 
            In the Face of Everything – Jetzt erst recht, group exhibition with CKCK

            Kelly O’Brien, Claudia Grom and Chris Kircher, Stadtgalerie Bad Soden am

            Taunus

2016

zeißel, heimat, rosenhagen und ein maikäfer – 10 years »grassgrün« unique jewelry, grassgrün, Frankfurt

2016  

Everything is fine with Betsy – Alles gut mit Betsy, group exhibition with Kelly O’Brien, Claudia Grom und Chris Kircher, grassgrün, Frankfurt

2015  

leaving traces – Spuren hinterlassen, solo exhibition, grassgrün, Frankfurt

2015  

the artist is not present, group exhibition with Kelly O’Brien, Claudia Grom und Chris Kircher, Galerie Uhn, Königstein

2015  

laut und leise – loud and light, group exhibition with Dorothea Behnke and Manfred Zulauf, grassgrün, Frankfurt

2014  

to be continued – Fortsetzung folgt, group exhibition with Kelly O’Brien, Claudia Grom und Chris Kircher, grassgrün, Frankfurt

2013  

OPEN STUDIOS, Städelschule Adult Education Program, Frankfurt

2012  

Parallelwelten, works in the tradition of the Städelschule Adult Education Program, Ausstellungshalle, Schulstraße 1A, Frankfurt

Public Purchases

2014  

Lilie der Inklusion, light object, contract work for Verein Pepino e. V., Wiesbaden