Alexandra Rügler

currently cooking up a little something for the Vernissage on Thursday been going a little nuts with it 🤓😎 so much fun #koreanbapsang Looking forward to the exhibition - Hope to see you there! ✨ STORIES WE CARRY - COMICS ON DIASPORA AND BELONGING Vernissage Thursday, April 30th, 6pm May 1 - June 28 @kommunalegalerieberlin @comicinvasionberlin Together with the wonderful artists @bleu_comme_une_orange @keumsukgendrykim @chung.woolrim @sheree_domingo Curated by @amebk_eem

💥🦇💥 #exhibition 코믹을 좋아하신다면, 5월 9일과 10일 행사뿐 아니라 코믹 전시도 함께 즐겨보세요! 📍 코믹 전시
독일 & 한국의 그래픽노블 작가 5인의 작품 5.6 (수) – 5.26 (화) 오전 9시 – 오후 6시 주한독일문화원 도서관 및 건물 내 복도·계단 코믹 전시 - 참여 작가 • Sheree Domingo @sheree_domingo • Alexandra Rügler @duegler • Dominik Heilig @aisu.studio • 박건웅(Kun-Woong Park) @parkkunwoong • 정울림(Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom) @chung.woolrim Mit @comicinvasionberlin 🙏✨ #코믹 #만화 #전시

Satellites 🛰️ Satelliten 2026 Stories We Carry: Comics on Diaspora and Belonging Comics über Diaspora und Zugehörigkeit An exhibition bringing together international comic and graphic novel artists exploring migration, diaspora, identity, and belonging. Through drawn narratives and visual storytelling, the works move between languages, places, and memories - tracing what it means to live in between worlds. Each artist approaches these themes from deeply personal perspectives, connecting individual experiences with wider social histories and collective memory. 🗯️ Eine Ausstellung internationaler Comic- und Graphic-Novel-Künstler*innen über Migration, Diaspora, Identität und Zugehörigkeit. In gezeichneten Erzählungen bewegen sich die Werke zwischen Sprachen, Orten und Erinnerungen — und erkunden das Leben im Dazwischen. Die Künstler*innen verbinden persönliche Perspektiven mit gesellschaftlichen und historischen Zusammenhängen. 📍 Kommunale Galerie Berlin Hohenzollerndamm 176, 10713 Berlin 📅 Vernissage 30 April / 30. April 2026 18:00 Artist Tour 10 June / 10. Juni 2026 18:00 Workshops Sheree Domingo & Young-Rong Choo 10 June / 10. Juni 2026 13:00-17:00 Alexandra Rügler 17, 18, 23 June / 17., 18., 23. Juni 2026 10:00-13:00 Finissage: 28 June / 28. Juni 2026 15:00 ♿ Ground floor accessible / Erdgeschoss barrierefrei zugänglich 🔗 kommunalegalerie-berlin.de @Kommunalegalerieberlin @ltikorea_official @keumsukgendrykim @chung.woolrim @sheree_domingo @duegler @bleu_comme_une_orange @patrick.spaet #ComicInvasionBerlin #SAT26 #Diaspora #Comics #Focus26

Focus Programme 2026 🫶🏼 “Frames Unbound: Manhwa goes Berlin!” <틀을 벗어나: 만화, 베를린에 가다!> ✨Alexandra Rügler (알렉산드라 뤼글러) @duegler Born in Athens and raised in Berlin, her work explores identity, memory, and perspective. Moving between personal narrative and observation, she creates visual stories about belonging and lived experience. She studied in South Korea and Germany, completing her MA in Hamburg in 2025. Her work has received the Büchergilde Design Award and a nomination for the World Illustration Awards. For CIB Focus 2026, her work Im Anderswo will be presented in exhibitions at Kommunale Galerie Berlin and Goethe-Institut Korea in Seoul. She will also speak about storytelling shaped by questions of identity and diaspora during the main festival weekend. 📚 Geboren in Athen und aufgewachsen in Berlin, beschäftigt sie sich in ihren Arbeiten mit Identität, Erinnerung und Perspektive. Zwischen persönlicher Erzählung und Beobachtung entwickelt sie visuelle Geschichten über Zugehörigkeit und gelebte Erfahrungen. Sie studierte in Südkorea und Deutschland und schloss 2025 ihren Master in Hamburg ab. Für ihre Arbeiten erhielt sie den Büchergilde-Gestalterpreis und eine Nominierung für die World Illustration Awards. Für CIB Focus 2026 wird ihr Werk Im Anderswo in Ausstellungen in der Kommunalen Galerie Berlin und im Goethe-Institut Korea in Seoul gezeigt. Zudem wird sie während des Hauptfestivalwochenendes über das Erzählen von Geschichten sprechen, die von Fragen zu Identität und Diaspora geprägt sind. @kommunalegalerieberlin @mfk_berlin @goetheinstitut_korea #ComicInvasionBerlin #CIB26 #Südkorea #Manhwa #AlexandraRuegler

A little peek at my desk: drawing in my „Two Little Wings“ sketchbook/zine on the weekends, still a #wip Been taking my time with this one, doing it only for me - and enjoying it so much. 🍃#artistdesk #watercolor #graphicessay

✨Exhibition at Fumetto Festival in Luzern, Switzerland! ✨come check it out! @architektengemeinschaft4 @fumettofestival

For #Inktober, I'm sketching some movie magic🍿. Today's theme: MUSTACHE 🥸. Can you guess which film showcases these four fabulous #mustaches? #inktobermustache @inktober @inktober_2025 ✨Free zine in the end for a person if you guessed them all 🙀👻✨

Come by to say hi and to look at great zines and art in Berlin this Saturday! :) sharing a table at Pfefferberg Zinefest with @iris_drawingstuff , Schönhauser Allee 176, 11am-6pm 🪲😱❤️ @pfefferwerk_events

When I was at #trailerblaze2025 of @shortrunseattle , I started to work on this. It’s memories of my German grandmother, who developed Alzheimer’s when I was pretty young. I didn’t quite understand it. But when I was a child, we walked together a lot. And we talked and we sang. She was the sweetest person, as far as I know, and I miss her these days. Alzheimer and dementia can be so tough and sad for families to deal with, and this story is of course, only a fragment of it all. ❤️ The story will be a little longer than this, so maybe stay tuned for more, and there will probably be a little zine version of this eventually. 🍃 This excerpt was published in our lovely Trailer Blaze anthology zine. - First time I tried to edit a reel, so sorry for any wonkiness in the timing. 🪾#watercolor #graphicessay

“Im Anderswo“ – Exhibition with a reading by Alexandra Rügler ✨🛰️ 🗓️ 25.04.–4.05.25: Exhibition • Ausstellung 25.04. ab 19:00: Vernissage and reading • Vernissage und Lesung 📍 StudioTrouble™ Manteuffelstraße 73 10999 Berlin 💫 What does it mean to come from somewhere? Does your origin determine who you are? And if your home changes without you—can you ever really return home? “Im Anderswo” tells stories about rootlessness, loss, impermanence, belonging and home. Using comic-journalistic approaches, real experiences are captured in a literary framework, emphasising the power of storytelling as well as how it shapes our memories, morals and the how we see our lives. The comic is set in the US Midwest, South Korea and Berlin, among other places. It explores migration, diaspora, identity and home as some of the most important issues of our time. The reading will be in English. Accessibility: the studio is located on the ground floor with one step at the entrance. The WC is not wheelchair-accessible. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Was bedeutet es, von irgendwoher zu kommen? Bestimmt deine Herkunft, wer du bist? Wenn sich deine Heimat ohne dich wandelt, kannst du dann jemals wirklich nach Hause zurückkehren? „Im Anderswo“ erzählt über Heimatlosigkeit, Verlust, Vergänglichkeit, Zugehörigkeit und Zuhause. Mit comicjournalistischen Ansätzen werden wahre Erlebnisse in einen literarischen Rahmen gefasst. Die Macht des Erzählens wird betont – und wie es unsere Erinnerungen, Moral und wie wir unser Leben sehen, formt. Die Handlung spielt u. a. im Mittleren Westen der USA, in Südkorea und Berlin. „Im Anderswo“ untersucht Migration, Dia­spora, Identität und Heimat als einige der wichtigsten Themen unserer Zeit. Die Lesung findet auf Englisch statt. Barrierefreiheit: Das Studio befindet sich im Erdgeschoss; am Eingang gibt es eine Stufe. Die Toilette ist nicht rollstuhlgerecht. ﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌ @studio.trouble @duegler 📎 alexandraruegler.de

Thanks everyone who came by @minimartcitypark and @kefroh @shortrunseattle to make this little exhibition happen! I had a great day in Georgetown, Mini Mart and @fantagraphicsbookstore ❤️🤗

MMCP AiR Open House TOMORROW! Stop by during @georgetownartattack for a visit with our visiting artist in Residence, Alexandra Ruegler! Introducing Alexandra Ruegler (@duegler )! She is a Berlin based comic artist and illustrator, and she is our next Artist in Residence at Mini Mart! She was born in Athens in 1988 and grew up in Berlin as the daughter of a Korean nurse and a German archaeologist. Her graphic stories have been published in various books and magazines since 2012. She studied graphic storytelling, illustration and design in the class of ATAK and traditional drawing techniques in Seoul, South Korea. Currently she is working on her Master‘s degree in Anke Feuchtenberger‘s graphic storytelling class at HAW Hamburg.Her passionate focus lies in comics and other graphic stories that combine true events with the medium of comics and drawing. Apart from that, she is working in book production and design for Reprodukt, a Berlin based German indie comic publisher. She currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany and is very active in the city’s comic scene. Alexandra is in town to attend Short Run’s Trailer Blaze Comics Residency on Long Beach Peninsula. If you have any questions feel free to DM us or email us at [email protected]!