Ruben Talberg
Ruben Talberg is a German contemporary artist, known as »King of Flow,« and founder of the Neo-Fluxus art movement and Talberg Museum, a single-artist museum in Offenbach/Main, Germany.
Early life and education
Ruben Talberg was born in Heidelberg in 1964. He studied art and philosophy at Heidelberg University, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Art Students League of New York, and Goethe University Frankfurt.Life and work
Talberg's oeuvre engages with antagonistic positions such as nature and alchemy, asymmetry and dynamics, Eros and Thanatos, exploring how they connected to flow. In the early 1990s he worked as an assistant with Emil Schumacher and Antoni Tàpies. In 1995 he published his Neo-Fluxus Manifesto, articulating a philosophy of flow influenced by Heraclitus's panta rhei and TAO principles. Neo-Fluxus manifests itself in the form of "Manifolds", which are executed as reliefs or sculptures. Extensive journeys serve as sources of his inspiration.In 2011 he launched the single-artist Talberg Museum in Offenbach, Germany. In 2023 to 2024, he created the digital series 888 Manifolds.
As a creative writer he combines the flow of lyrical compositions with narrative fiction. As a photographer he focuses on the flow of the optical unconscious, dreamscapes, and Talgraphs.
Since 1992 he is a notable member of Mensa International, the high IQ society https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mensans.
Talberg lives and works between Heidelberg and Southern France.