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Katja Ruge
Hamburg - Berlin
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Herspective Photographers
Female Photoclub
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books
Fotoreportage23 - In search of Ian Curtis
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Edition Prints are available. Please contact me.
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Kaput Mag english & german
Minneola german only
Female Photoclub german only
Salon Holofernes german only
The Wasted Hour german only
Electronic Beats german only
selected photo exhibitions &
lectures & workshops
2023
* 23.09.23 Talk Photopia Hamburg
*16.6.23 "Future Flash" group exhibition BFF in Stuttgart
* 12.6.23 15 Jahre Initiative Musik Deutschland Festsaal Kreuzberg
solo exhibition
* 18.5.- 22.12.23 "Spunk" Capitis Galerie, Finnissage 16.12.23
* 2.03.23 EMOP 2023 Group exhbition Herspective Photographers
* 17.03.23 solo exhibition Berlin
2022
*Part of RUN-WAY Beautiful Ebene in Frankfurt/Main AAArea Festival Fashion Week
*BIMM Institute Hamburg Workshop in March
*MOMEM Frankfurt/Main
*Folkwang Pop Bochum Workshop *c/o Pop Cologne Workshop
*Invisible I group exhibition Herspective Photographers
2021
*Aufschlag Group Exhibition BFF in Hamburg Messehallen outdoor
*Sony x Adobe Talk online
2020
*One Room - One Light @ Tempel 1844 Solo exhibition
*EMOP Berlin Artist in Action
2019
*Fullmoon ÂME NUE gallery Hamburg
*part of the 50 Jahre BFF Your Signature – das bleibt exhibition in Stuttgart/Berlin/Hamburg
*Ladyflash" - Female musicians in Zingst
dj dates
Katja Ruge
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biografie Katja Ruge
Den Beat sehen. Einen Augenblick hören. Für Katja Ruge, Fotografin, DJ und Musikproduzentin sind Fotografie, Musik, Porträt und Pop unweigerlich miteinander verbunden.
Wer Ihre eindringlichen Porträts betrachtet, hat den Eindruck, einerseits den Kern der abgelichteten Menschen zu erkennen und zugleich deren eigentlich verborgenen Charakterzüge. Eine Kunstfertigkeit, die auf Handwerk basiert: Katja Ruge hat ihr Fach in einer Grafikschule und als Fotolaborantin von der Pike auf gelernt, sie arbeitete als Fotoassistentin, Musikpromoterin und Artdirektorin, bevor sie sich als Selbstständige gänzlich der Fotografie verschrieb.
Wer Katja Ruge trifft und mit ihr arbeitet, der erlebt einen Menschen, der emphatisch ist und zugleich hoch professionell. „Ich verbinde und verbünde mich mit meinem Gegenüber unmittelbar“.
Als Fotografin ist sie eine Komplizin auf Augenhöhe, die sehr genau zuhört und spürt, ob ihr Gegenüber gerade einen Energiekick oder sachte Fürsorge braucht. Mit klaren Ansagen und warmherziger Motivation, mit feinsinniger Beobachtungsgabe und einem intuitiven Gefühl für Bildaufbau erschaffte sie hunderte von Portraits.
Ihre geballte Kompetenz in Musik und Fotografie gibt Katja Ruge mittlerweile als Dozentin und Beraterin weiter. Eine starke und mutige Bildsprache zu entwickeln gerade für junge Musiker*innen ist für sie besonders wichtig. Am Puls der Zeit, ohne Trends hinterher zu jagen. Kategorien wie Mainstream und Subkultur scheinen sich aufzulösen in ihrem charismatischen Pop Universum.
Ihre Liebe zur Musik findet seinen weiteren Ausdruck als DJ. Ihre intensiven Sets finden in Clubs oder auf Ausstellungen & Events statt. Ihr Sound Universum ist stark 80er geprägt ohne den Blick auf aktuelle Musik zu verlieren.
Zusammen mit Frank Husemann bildet sie das Duo „Can Love Be Synth“, das komplett analog im Synthesizerstudio Hamburg produziert und diverse Remixes und eigene Releases bei Labels wie Bordello A Parigi, Mute Records, Ombra Int. und TAU hatte.
biography Katja Ruge
To see the beat. To hear the moment. For Katja Ruge, Photographer, DJ and music producer, portraits and pop are inextricably linked.
Studying Katja Ruge’s intense photographs, it feels like you are discovering the inner core of the person portrayed, deep down even to their hidden character traits. It is a skill based on craft: Katja Ruge has learned her profession from scratch at graphic/design school and as a photo lab technician, besides working as photo assistant, music promoter and art director, before turning full-time self-employed photographer in 2000.
When working with Katja Ruge, you get to know a very empathic yet deeply professional person. “ I build up a relationship with the other person at once ”. As a photographer, she is an accomplice on equal footing who listens very closely and finds out at once whether the person in front of her is in need of an energy kick or rather a kind word. With clear specifications and warm-hearted motivation, sensitive power of observation and an intuitive feel for image composition, she has created iconic portraits of hundreds of artists.
A great deal of her female artist portraits was shown in her critically acclaimed and repeatedly prolonged exhibition “Ladyflash”.
Katja Ruge’s pop culturally sharpened view originates in the fact that she is living music history. In the 90s, she lived in Manchester, at the hub of the rave culture that developed around the legendary Hacienda club. The years in England had a deep impact on her and inspired her renowned book Fotoreportage 23 – In Search Of Ian Curtis", a black and white study following the tracks of the late Joy Division singer.
In 2020 she was a guest at the European Month in Berlin as #artistinaction and created her widely acclaimed exhibition “One Room One Light” in the Tempel 1844 during the lockdown.
By now, Katja Ruge passes her combined competence in music and photography on to others as a lecturer and mentor. To come up with a distinctive and courageous imagery is very important to her. Always at the height of fashion without following trends. With photography just as with music, Katja Ruge never strictly bows to a form or a genre but adjusts to the given situation.
As a DJ she is playing everything from synth pop to Italo-disco what fits into her sound universe. Inspired by a series of photographs she portrayed vintage synthesizers, and presented them as oversized collages . It was seen in the Kunsthaus Graz, at the SXSW in Austin, at the Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg and in the mountains of Lech am Arlberg projected.
Together with Frank Husemann, they are the duo "Can Love Be Synth", they produce complete analog sounds in the Synthesizer Studio Hamburg and have various remixes and own releases out on labels such as Bordello A Parigi, Mute Records, Ombra Int. And TAU.
text Birgit Reuther
translation Kirsten Borchardt
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