RINGO MOLLINGER
Born in The Hague, in 1984, Ringo works as an independent artist/designer and also creates large-scale murals on request. By combining analogue and digital applications, he maintains the challenge and excitement of both.
Ringo’s innate sense of typography and graphic design came to the fore when, aged just 13, he became involved in the illegal graffiti and street art circuit. A logical progression, therefore, was his admission to the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam in 2005, where he graduated in February 2010 as a graphic designer.
Although Ringo studied in Rotterdam, he now lives in The Hague, which is where he produces the majority of his work and where, in 2008, he was instrumental in establishing an artist collective, together with a few other Hague designers.
The collective is primarily focused on the placing and modification of objects in public spaces. Today, Ringo is still active in this ‘guerrilla’ collective, the highlight of which is the once illegal dolphin sculpture now classed as legal (as a result of the support of the municipality and various neighbourhood associations), which is immortalised in one of the city’s largest canals.
In his current free digital work, Ringo’s passion for graffiti and street art can still be seen: in almost every work there is a reference to this modern subculture. Graffiti-written walls and objects in the public area are still Ringo's biggest inspiration. His work can be truly described as imaginative, raw and urban.