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Ralph Morgenstern
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Ralph Morgenstern is a German performance artist whose practice emerged within the postwar tradition of embodied action and live intervention. Working since the 1970s, he situates the body and its movements as primary material, engaging with duration, presence, and the temporal specificity of the performed moment. His work operates within the lineage of European performance art, emphasizing the ephemeral nature of live encounter over documentation or artifact.
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