Research Catalogue

Grit Ruhland studied „Sculptural and Spatial Concepts'at Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden and received her degree in 2005. Her artistic work is based on a conceptual approach, and contains projects within Community Arts, Public Art, Sound Art and interaction with scientific institutes and topics. Keywords are cognition, space, technology, landscape and participation. She has been teaching in artistic faculties at the universities of Wuppertal and Dresden since 2007. She initiated artistic projects and exhibitions around Germany and in Estonia, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Austria, France, Italy, Lithuania, Latvia, Finland, Northern Ireland and Singapore. Currently, she is a PhD-candidate at Bauhaus University Weimar where she conducts research on the impacts of uranium mining on the landscape of East-Germany. Since 2011, she has been a board member of the Artists' Association of Saxony, actively working as a jury member and co-organizer of events and publications which discuss working conditions for the arts and artists.