Isabel Ritter was born in Pirmasens, Germany in 1978.
In 2003, she completed a three-year training program to become a wood sculptor.
From 2005 to 2011, she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg (A.d.B.K. Nürnberg).
In 2010, she was appointed master student of Professor Marko Lehanka.
During the academic year 2014/2015, she worked as a lecturer in modelling at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg.
Artist statement
“My work is a tribute to nature’s own packaging: I find the form, function, and colours of fruit peels simply brilliant.” (Isabel Ritter)
“Freshness – summer – Capri – holidays” were some of the first associations that came to mind when we saw Isabel Ritter’s brightly glowing yellow lemon peel. Trained as a sculptor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg, she has created, in her most recent series, a wide variety of fruit peels rendered in different forms and compositions.
“It is not only a pleasure to look at them; the inherent contradiction within the sculptures also sparks curiosity. Fruit peels, objects that are normally discarded without a second thought, have been preserved by the artist in bronze — an almost indestructible material — and thus transformed into something timeless.” (Dr. Annika Landmann, ARTEAMS, Hamburg)
Exhibitions (selection)
2026
AAF, Art Fair, Brussels, BE
2025
AAF, Art Fair, Brussels, BE
2021
Doppelausstellung PERSPEKTIVENT, Treffpunkt kunst 17, Bauverein AG, Darmstadt, DE
2020
DISCOVERY ART FAIR, Frankfurt, DE
Sculpture now, curator Josephine Kaiser, Fraunbergateliers, München, DE
2019
DISCOVERY ART FAIR, Frankfurt, DE
2018
KLAUS VON GAFFRON GEGEN DEN REST DER WELT, Kunstblock Balve, München, DE
AM TAG UND IN DER NACHT / DOTS Doppelausstellung mit Alexander, Stadtmuseum Hüfingen, DE
2017
NACH DER NATUR (E), kuratiert von Dr. Peter Kohlhaas, Galerie 1214, Öfingen, DE
BEST OF …, Nürnberg, DE
2016
SURPRISE, curator Yongbo Zhao, Galerie Radowitz, München, DE
2014
LIEBLINGSSTÜCKE, curator Simone Seifert, Cordonhaus Cham, DE