Biography
Sabine Raun
born 01.03.1965 in Buxtehude, Germany
1971-1975 Elementary School Stieglitzweg, Buxtehude, Germany
1975-1977 Level Orientation South, Buxtehude
1977-1981 High School South, Buxtehude
1981-1985 German High School, Aabenraa, Denmark
1985 High School Diploma
1985-1988 Vocational School for Wood Sculptors, Flensburg, Germany
1988 Wood Sculptor Journeywoman
1988-1989 Journey to India and Nepal
1989-1994 Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Study of Free Art: Specialising in Sculpture
1992 Study Trip to Guatemala, Mexiko, Belize and Honduras
1993 Internship abroad at the Sculptorsvillage Tengenenge, Zimbabwe
1994 Exchangestudy: Chelsea School of Art, London, Great Britain
1994 Diploma Sculptor
1994-1999 Exhibitions in different galeries and musea in Amsterdam und surrounding.
Visiting artist for three month with the Actiontheatergroup 'Dogtroep'
1996-1997 Gueststudy with Marina Abramovic at the "State Academy of Arts", Hamburg, Germany
1996 Sideline activity in the elderly care and at the german television
1996-1999 Lecturer at different folk high schools and elementary schools
1997-now Various workretreats in various meditationcenters at home and abroad
1999 Participation at the Sculptors Symposium in Diebzig, Anhalt, Germany
1999-2001 Postgraduate Study "Creative Work and Therapy" at the "State Academy of Art", Munich, Germany
with Prof. Dr. Gertraud Schottenloher
1999-2003 Diverse internships, (i.a. Psychosomatic Hospital Bad Grönenbach, Germany,
Psychosomatic Hospital at Kyffhäuser (Drug-Rehabilitation), Psychiatric Hospital Kaufbeuren,...), Employment at the "School of Fantasy", YouthArtSchool, Munich, Germany
2003 Certificate as Systemic-Analytical Arttherapist
2003-2011 Free artistic activities at home and abroad, advanced training in the creative areas
painting, photography and bronzecasting
2011 Advanced training at the IKT, Munich, with Dr. phil. Dipl.-Psych. Renate Hochauf
and Dipl.-Med. Natascha Unfried
Certificate as "Art-therapeutic consultant for early traumata and structural deficit"
2012-2016 Living in Bollschweil, Geiersnest, Germany,
advanced studies at the College "Highschool for Art, Design and Music", Freiburg, Germany
2013 "Caution Freshly Painted": cooperative mural paintings
in schools, homes, prisons and townquarters
2013-2016 Studio in the joint-studio DIVA, located in the solar-district Freiburg-Vauban, Germany
2014-2015 Regionale '15, La Kunsthalle, Mulhouse, France
2016-now Studio in Freiburg im Breisgau
2016-now Ceramic-Studio Irmgard Waning, assisting and learning
Expositions
1992 "Transformazone" Solo-Exposition, Rietveld Pavillon, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1993 Westergasfabrik, collective exposition of the Rietveld Academy Sculpture Department
1994 Museum Aemstelle, a choice of the finalists of the Rietveld Academy
1994 "First Choice 1", Clea Gardiner and Sabine Raun, W139, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1998 Sculptors Symposium, Diebzig, Anhalt, Germany
2014-2015 Regionale '15, La Kunsthalle, Mulhouse, France
Artists that inspire me:
James Turrell, Anish Kapoor, Louse Bourgeois, Kiki Smith, Marlene Dumas,
Marina Abramoviç
Part of my postgraduate-studies as an art-therapist have been comprehensive teaching and
self-therapeutic experiences, which i have continued until the present.
Here my special interest is in mindfulness and experience based approaches, that are founded on respect, transparancy and authenticity.
The people that have inspired me until now:
Dr. Amy and Dr. Arnold Mindell, Dr. Peter A. Levine, Dr. Luise Reddemann, Dipl.-Psych Michaela Huber,
Dr. John Weir Perry, Dr. Edward Podvoll, Prof. Heinz Deuser: work with the clayfield, Windhorse-Initiatives of the Naropa Institute, Colorado, USA, ...
Further interests that enrichen my life are musical activities (singing, piano), traveling, writing, literature, film, photography, hiking. dance, yoga, meditation.