Gerd Rohling
Gerd Rohling (* 1946 in Krefeld ) is a German painter and object artist .
life and work
Rohling moved to West Berlin in 1971 and studied graphic design with Gerhard Bergmann at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin until 1977 and was in Karl Horst Hödicke's painting class , where he became a master student . In 1979 he founded the Berlin artist group and self-help gallery of the same name "1/61" (named after the postal delivery district Berlin- Kreuzberg 61 ) with Frank Dornseif , Ter Hell and Reinhard Pods, among others . In 1980 he received the PS1 scholarship , New York.
Rohling is known as a well-traveled artist who spends parts of the year in Naples, Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro, Ghana, Thailand and the USA. In his early days he was associated with gestural painting by the Neue Wilde . In the 1980s he turned to object art. From the simplest of materials, such as scrap pieces made of paper, glass, metal or plastic, he designed both object ensembles and room-filling installations with a large use of color . "From cardboard and plastic scraps, with sprayer carelessness and quasi-casualness, he builds and paints urban-adventurous scenes ..."
In 2009 he showed the installation water and wine in the Hamburger Bahnhof exhibition hall , for which he transformed different vessels into a new context.
In 2013 he designed an overall installation for the Weserburg Museum für Moderne Kunst with the exhibition “Inside - Outside”, which showed the newer series of works “Always in the picture - Rouge” and “Sweet 'n' Sour” and “in a playful way” for the Rohling in addition to painting, sculptures, and films.
Rohling lives and works in Berlin . As a member of the German Association of Artists , he took part in several annual DKB exhibitions between 1977 and 1984.
literature
- Lucie Schauer : Exhibition catalog Gerd Rohling - Works 1979/80 , Neuer Berliner Kunstverein , 1981
- Lucius Grisebach : Gerd Rohling. The long way to a good picture , Verlag für moderne Kunst, Nuremberg, (1994)
- Eva Meyer-Hermann: Gerd Rohling . In: 1945-1985. Art in the Federal Republic of Germany, exhibition catalog Nationalgalerie Berlin, 1985, p. 423
- Marius Babias: Gerd Rohling . In: Kunstforum international , Vol. 105, 1990, p. 327
Awards
- 1981: Villa Romana Prize , Florence
- 1982–84: Karl Schmidt Rottluff scholarship
- 1982: Working grant from the Art Fund Foundation , Bonn
Web links
- Literature by and about Gerd Rohling in the catalog of the German National Library
- Gerd Rohling on kunstaspekte.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ In: The artwork , Vol. 34, 1981
- ↑ Gerd Rohling's website with a text by Harald Szeemann
- ↑ New Museum Weserburg
- ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Participation in exhibitions: Rohling, Gerd (accessed on December 23, 2015)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rohling, Gerd |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and object artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Krefeld |