Exhibitions
The Indeterminate Sublime, Kalve Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
The Indeterminate Sublime, Kalve Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania. Exhibition dates: Thursday 22 May 2025 to Monday 30 June 2025. Venue: Kalve Gallery, 24 Užupio gatvė, Vilnius, Lithuania.
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The Water Spirits Of Aveiro, Galeria Edificio Antiga Capitania, Aveiro, Portugal
Exhibition dates: Saturday 11 March 2023 to Sunday 2 July 2023. Venue: Galeria Edifício Antiga Capitania, 2 Rua de Viana do Castelo, Aveiro, Portugal. Introduction Ralph Kerle has chosen to explore a new environment for this exhibition, The Water Spirits of Aveiro. In 2019, Kerle journeyed on the canals of Aveiro and was captivated by the relationship of the city's past to its present. Gazing at the surrounds from the water, he felt the spirited presence of the European artists who have inspired so many artists including himself. The buildings that line the canals of Aveiro provided a rich subject for Kerle's imagination. His digital photography is a representation of these meditative and transcendental moments experienced on the water. The spirits of the past and present are seen though Kerle's lens. The Water Spirits of Aveiro is a visual record of Kerle's ongoing creative journey.
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The Indeterminate Sublime, Rothko Museum, Daugavpils, Latvia
Exhibition dates: Friday 3 March 2023 to Sunday 21 May 2023. Venue: Daugavpils Mark Rothko Arts Centre, 62 Valmieras iela, Daugavpils, Latvia. Introduction Ralph Kerle's artistic practice began exactly where Mark Rothko's ended - within the context of life-threatening depression, and uncannily extends a lineage Rothko could never have imagined. Kerle's images evoke the imaginative, abstract and existential realms of 20th century haute-modernism, but are difficult to place within the context of the popular realism commonly associated with contemporary photographic practice. On the hunt, Kerle's images appear to offer themselves up from within a meditative state of self-reflection. Kerle takes the shot, but unlike his modernist predecessors, he does not make the mark. His images are not digitally altered; there is no cut & paste, no Photoshop in Ralph's studio. On reflection, Ralph's images, like Rorschach inkblots, arise from the deep and stand as shimmering spectres of some indeterminate sublime, enabling the viewer to unpack their own unspoken longings. In this regard Ralph Kerle's photographs uncannily extend a lineage Rothko might have once hoped for.
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Paintings On Water, CStudios Art Gallery, Newcastle Australia
Exhibition dates: Saturday 15 February 2020 to Sunday 8 March 2020. Venue: Cstudios Art Gallery, 738 Hunter Street, Newcastle West, NSW, Australia. Paintings On Water is a collection of images that comes out of abstractions in nature photographed during Kerle's water journeys. They have been described variously as meditative, emotional, inspirational and aesthetically beautiful in their abstraction. Paintings on Water visually explores the interplay between the surface of the waters and the power of physical movement as creative inspiration. "I discovered on a very fundamental human level, the synthesis of these elements freed my mind from mental darkness whilst recharging the soul with the light of new thinking," says Kerle. Ralph Kerle began kayaking on Middle Harbour, Sydney Australia around eight years ago as a way of finding a non-pharmaceutical remedy for depression. His daily morning kayak suddenly opened up a world of new visual perceptions; offering boundless moments of insight whilst connecting him as closely to nature as the original Aboriginal inhabitants of Middle Harbour, the Cammeraygals. International art critic Damien Smith has offered the following observation. "Ralph Kerle's photographic impressions appear to us not only as reflections of nature. Rather they speak past the possibility of continuum, and not only of our place within the ceaseless flow of time, but also of our ability to be actors within the conditions of our existence and to shape our relationship with the world."
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Paintings on Water, Art Palm Beach, Palm Beach Florida USA
Exhibition dates: Wednesday 29 January 2020 to Monday 3 February 2020. Venue: Art Palm Beach 2020, 2401 N Dixie Hwy, West Palm Beach, FL, United States. About Art Palm Beach The Premier Art Fair in South Florida During the Height of the Winter Season. Art Palm Beach becomes a spectacle each day, a panorama of immersive events for five days. Spectacular performances, extraordinary installations, live music, interactive experiences. No longer the repetitive old format. Art Palm Beach creates a new contemporary art fair genre. An enhanced cultural experience designed to attract multiple visits by attendees. During ArtPalmBeach 2020 visitors will take part in an immersive art experience as they gain access to crucial information about art and collecting in a comprehensive manner that reflects today's culture and society. Art Palm Beach will offer visitors an unprecedented in-depth experience of all the art world has to offer. As the art world sets its sights on South Florida, Next Level Fairs is reshaping the art fair concept for the 23rd edition of ArtPalmBeach to connect exhibitors and collectors in dynamic new ways. The trendsetting founders of major fairs Art Miami and Art Asia Hong Kong since 1990 are once again breaking ground with a multifaceted redesign to make spaces as creative as the artwork on view.
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The Art of Navy, Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney Australia
Exhibition dates: Thursday 3 October 2019 to Sunday 10 November 2019. Venue: Australian National Maritime Museum, 2 Murray Street, Sydney, NSW, Australia. The Art of Navy: Specially commissioned exhibition from the Royal Australian Navy premieres at the Australian National Maritime Museum. For a very limited run, The Art of Navy - an intimate exhibit of original photographic works by internationally recognised Australian artist Ralph Kerle - will show at the Australian National Maritime Museum this spring. This is the first time the exhibition has been publically shown. The exhibition was launched on 9th October alongside the official launch of the Museum's newly acquired, Navy decommissioned Tiger Seahawk helicopter. The Art of Navy ran for the month of October, and seeks to challenge traditional perceptions of the Royal Australian Navy by offering up peaceful, meditative, abstract yet natural reflections of RAN vessels in Sydney Harbour. After a battle with depression, Kerle found solace and healing in the natural world, specifically in kayaking through Middle Harbour in Sydney. "These photographs represent for me how the power of physical movement in kayaking and the movements on the surface of the water can synthesize to act as creative inspiration freeing the mind of mental darkness to heal, recharge and inspire the inner self," explains Kerle. The award winning multimedia and photographic artist was commissioned by the RAN in early 2019 to apply his innovative digital photographic technique to capturing reflections on the surface of the water of ships of the fleet in the waters of Sydney Harbour. Deputy Chief of Navy, Rear Admiral Mark Hammond says the exhibition is very different from traditional maritime art. "When you first view the image, you assume it's a traditional painting of some kind but it's actually a cleverly crafted image. Appearance gives way to reality," Rear Admiral Hammond says. Since commencing his reflections on water series, Ralph Kerle's work has achieved international recognition and has been the subject of exhibitions in Berlin, Germany (2017), Lisbon, Portugal (2015), Riga, Latvia (2015) as well as galleries in Melbourne (2016) and Sydney.
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WelcomeToArt Gallery, Embaixada, Lisbon, Portugal
Exhibition dates: Friday 9 November 2018 to Friday 23 November 2018. Venue: WelcomeToArt Gallery, Embaixada, Praça do Príncipe Real 26, Lisbon, Portugal. Ralph Kerle's Art features in a new group exhibition at one of Lisbon's hip new concept/gallery spaces, Embaixada, in the WelcomeToArt Art Gallery. The exhibition features three up and coming Portuguese photographers Teresa Marques dos Santos, Jorge and award winning José Esteves Martins and provides Ralph with an opportunity to expose his work and to interact with the Portuguese fine art community.
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Enter Art Foundation Exhibition, Berlin Art Week, Berlin Germany
Exhibition dates: Friday 14 September 2018 to Sunday 30 September 2018. Venue: Enter Art Foundation, Gerichtshöfe gallery, Gerichtstraße 12-13, Wedding 13347, Berlin, Germany. On the occasion of the Berlin Art Week 2018, Enter Art Foundation presents its tenth exhibition, "42 Contemporary Artists". After exhibitions in Stockholm, Sweden and Bonn, we are excited to exhibit again in our hometown Berlin. This exhibition consists of 42 emerging and mid-career artists, ranging in age between 21 and 72. These artists have been selected from exhibitions, art schools, and studio visits in Berlin and cities in Germany and abroad, including master students of the Düsseldorf Art Academy, the UdK Berlin, HGB Leipzig and the Royal Institute of Art Stockholm. Ralph Kerle was honoured to be selected as one of the 42 artists.
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The Nature in Surrealism, Intercontinental Hotel Gallery, Sydney Australia
Exhibition dates: Tuesday 13 February 2018 to Thursday 13 September 2018. Venue: Intercontinental Hotel Sydney, 117 Macquarie Street, Sydney, NSW, Australia. The exhibition was opened by Dr Louise Mahler, Leadership Influencer and a world leader in business and the arts, with a special presentation by Andy Singh, President of the Paddle Canoe Club of NSW, the oldest kayaking club in Australia founded in 1934 by Paddy Pallin. The opening included the premiere of a short 4 minute film "Hunting For Reflections" - a snapshot of how Ralph makes his work.
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Drawings on Water Series 2, Sagra Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 2016
Exhibition dates: Wednesday 16 November 2016 to Sunday 11 December 2016. Venue: Sagra Gallery, 256 Glenferrie Road, Malvern, VIC, Australia. An internationally acclaimed exhibition of photographs taken by Sydney artist Ralph Kerle during kayak journeys on Sydney's Middle Harbour, opened by Steve Vizard from the Vizard Foundation at Melbourne art gallery Sagra on Wednesday 16 November. The exhibition, Drawings On Water - Series 2, ran from 16 November at Sagra, 256 Glenferrie Road, Malvern.
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Drawings On Water Series 2, Gallery 88, Sydney Australia 2016
Exhibition dates: Thursday 7 April 2016 to Sunday 8 May 2016. Venue: Gallery 88, 88 Penshurst St, Willoughby, NSW, Australia. New South Wales Treasurer and State Member for Willoughby, the Hon. Gladys Berejiklian M.P. opened an exhibition by Willoughby art photographer Ralph Kerle at Gallery 88, 88 Penshurst St, Willoughby on Thursday 7 April. The exhibition, Drawings On Water - Series 2, comprises photographs of reflected images taken during kayak journeys on Sydney's Middle Harbour.
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Drawings On Water Goes Baltic, CREA Gallery, Riga, Latvia
Exhibition dates: Thursday 12 November 2015 to Sunday 31 January 2016. Venue: CREA Gallery, Riga, Latvia. Drawings on Water Goes Baltic with an exhibition of new work at Latvia's leading design gallery CREA.
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