Axel Rohlfs

Axel Rohlfs (* 1971 in Bremen ) is a painter of concrete art , author of concrete and visual poetry and editor for other representatives of concrete art. He studied architecture, real estate management, German and art education in Berlin, Detmold and Bremen.

Life

In 1991 he began studying architecture at the TU Berlin , which he graduated with a diploma in 1997. Here he also took painting courses with Matthias Koeppel . He then worked as an architect and artist in Hamburg , Düsseldorf , Detmold and Bremen. In 2002 he organized the exhibition Lajos Vajda - Endre Bálint (two Hungarian artists related to the Holocaust) in the Mü-Terem Galéria, Budapest . In 2004 he received a scholarship as artist in residence of the espace de l´art concrete in Mouans-Sartoux (Côte d´Azur) with a final studio exhibition. In the same year he began to create art editions for other artists ( Vera Molnár , Hans Jörg Glattfelder , Eugen Gomringer , Attila Kovács). In 2005 he had his first solo exhibition at the ikkp (institute for constructive art and concrete poetry, Eugen Gomringer) in Rehau . Exhibitions at home and abroad followed.

His artistic goal is the construction of intertwined figures within the framework of an aesthetic of simultaneity, absence and non-identity. The latter principles can also be seen in his visual and concrete poetry . He currently lives and works in Bremen .

Fonts

• The role of art in my existence. Article in the issue of the 12th Column of the Forum Konkrete Kunst Erfurt. Erfurt 2005.
• what you see is what you get. visual and concrete poetry. Foreword by Eugen Gomringer. Bremen 2006.
• Text image he-she-it in the anthology Passions. Edition splitter. Vienna 2006.
• Interview with Vera Molnár. In: Vera Molnár. Open Structures Art iety. Budapest 2007.
• schemes. Artistic strategies of counteracting Nazi visualizations. Bremen 2008.
• through. visual and concrete poetry. Bremen 2008.
• Pedants and chaos in the anthology of the same name. Edition Splitr, Vienna 2008.

Works in public collections

Museum of Concrete Art (Ingolstadt), Eugen Gomringer Collection (ikkp Rehau), Museum im Kulturspeicher (Würzburg), Mondriaanhuis (Amersfoort, Netherlands), Mobile MADI Museum (Budapest, Hungary), Szépmüvészeti Muzeum Budapest.

Exhibitions

• 2003: Group exhibition “Europe in concrete terms”, Blum-Kwiatkowski Collection, University Collections Art + Technology, Dresden.
• 2004: Group exhibition “50 Square + Compact Constructive Concrete” as part of the 14th Gmunden Symposium (Linschinger).
• 2005: Group exhibition "In the beginning was the square", Art Studio 1, Deinste; Solo exhibition at the Institut Francais de brème, Bremen; Group exhibition “Collector Concepts”, Forum Konkrete Kunst, Erfurt.
• 2006: Solo exhibition in the Society for Art and Design , Bonn March – April; Group exhibition Mobile MADI Museum, Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art May – June. Exhibition at Galerie La Ligne, Zurich, Switzerland (July – September); Group exhibition Galerie Emilia Suciu, Ettlingen (December – March 2007).
• 2007: Art Zürich (Galerie La Ligne); Exhibition for the 1st art prize (International André vard Prize) of the kunsthalle messmer ; Solo exhibition at the ikkp (institute for constructive art and concrete poetry, Eugen Gomringer), Rehau (May); Heidrichs Kunsthandlung, Berlin, group exhibition; Group exhibition in the Society for Art and Design, Bonn (October - November).

literature

• Aurélie Nemours: Architecte panel est-ce permis. Poem on the work of Axel Rohlfs. 2003.
• work report. Works 1997–2004, forewords: Aurélie Nemours and Eugen Gomringer. Bremen 2004.
• Catalog for the group exhibition “30 Positions”. Museum Modern Art, Hünfeld 2004.
• CD documentation of the group exhibition “50 Square + Compact Constructive Concrete” as part of the 14th Gmunden Symposium 2004 (Linschinger).
• Catalog for the group exhibition European concrete and constructive art in the UN building in Vienna "Motiva". Vienna 2005.
• Eugen Gomringer: Examples of a collector's concept. Article in the issue of the 12th Colloquium of the Forum Konkrete Kunst Erfurt. Erfurt 2005.
• Fugitive interaction of form. The double meander series from Axel Rohlfs. Foreword: Eugen Gomringer. Bremen 2006.
• “Of all things… mathematics and concrete art”. Catalog for the group exhibition in the Museum im Kulturspeicher, Würzburg. Wuerzburg 2007.
• Black and White. Catalog for the group exhibition in the Vasarely-Muzeum Budapest. Budapest 2007.
• 6 × 6 = 36. 6 rows of numbers in 6 (de) figurations. Forewords: Dietmar Guderian and Frider Nake.
• double knot images. Forewords: Eugen Gomringer, Hans-Jörg Glattfelder, Attila Kovács, Dietmar Guderian. Bremen 2009.

Web links

• Literature by and about Axel Rohlfs in the catalog of the German National Library
• Axel Rohlfs website