Ruby Anemic

Biography

Born in 1975, Berlin

Provocative, irreverent and highly playful, Ruby Anemic takes a hard look at the world around him through his use of image and language. The vast diversity of his body of work is united throughout by Anemic’s constant wit. In many ways, he is the quintessential post-modern artist, drawing on a combination of Minimalism, Pop, and Dada. Anemic believes that his “work should speak for itself,” and that it certainly does, often literally, through his use of thought-provoking phrases such as No Guts No Glory and I Need More. His work also belies an undying interest in, and often an exaggeration of, the absurdity of society. His work reflects the history of art in pieces like Break Glass in Case of Emergency, a cleverly framed gun that embodies a Duchampian spirit, as well as popular culture in, for instance, his use of song lyrics. Ruby Anemic’s work, whether text-based, photographic, or geometric, lends itself not only to the artist’s interpretation, but also to the multiplicity of interpretations that each person will bring to it. This dynamism is, in fact, what the artist most hopes to achieve. Anemic’s art is, regardless of medium, always the result of his key inspiration: life itself, something that is in constant flux and unique to each individual; his work is an intuitive response to the world around him and provides a compelling lens with which others can view it.

Ruby Anemic has exhibited widely throughout Europe and the United States. His work is included in a number of prominent private collections, as well as in the Daimler Contemporary Collection (Berlin) and the Angel Collection of Contemporary Art (Tel Aviv).