Ivo Ringe


Ivo Ringe is a German artist, who is classified as a concrete art painter, whose works can also be categorized as Minimalism and Hard-edge painting. He is also a docent and a curator of international group exhibitions. Ringe lives and works in Cologne, Germany. He is a member of the Deutscher Künstlerbund. Ringe is married to the US-American sculptor Heather Sheehan.

Life and work

In 1972 Ringe began studying sculpture at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under the instruction of professor Joseph Beuys. Like Imi Knoebel and Blinky Palermo, Ringe belongs to the Minimal art movement among Beuys' students.
A 1992 fire in his studio destroyed many of his works.
Since 2008, Ringe has been a lecturer in the fields of drawing and illustration technique at the Academy of Design "Ecosign", founded by Karin-Simone Fuhs. Since 2011, he is docent and since 2014 artistic director of the studio for fine arts at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. Ringe lives and works in Cologne, Germany. In 2015, Ringe had an extensive exhibition of his works at the Kunsthaus Rehau in Rehau, Germany, that inspired Eugen Gomringer to write a sonnet about his work. The vocalist and songwriter Amy Antin in 2020 released a song that deals with Ivo Ringe's artistic practice.

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Group exhibitions