Gerwald Rockenschaub

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Gerwald Rockenschaub (born May 9, 1952 in Linz ) is an Austrian artist and DJ .

Life

Gerwald Rockenschaub first studied history, psychology and philosophy at the University of Vienna and then until 1982 with Herbert Tasquil at the University of Applied Arts Vienna . From the early 1980s he worked as a DJ as well as an artist, first as a painter and later in installation art . In 1984 he showed his work in his first solo exhibitions with Otto Mauer in the Viennese "Galerie next St. Stephan" and the Hamburg Galerie Vera Munro ; In 1993 Rockenschaub played with Andrea Fraser and Christian Philipp Müller in the Austrian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale . In 2007 he was represented at documenta 12 with several works. As a techno DJ and musician, he founded the club “the audioroom” in Vienna in 1995 with Michael Meinhart . He released the LP It's ... at the Geneva independent label Villa Magica Records , founded in 2004 by Sylvie Fleury and John Armleder . He lives and works in Berlin .

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Rockenschaub's early paintings belong to Neo-Geo painting, an art movement of the 1980s that derived an abstract form-finding from the contemporary environment and society. In 1987, Rockenschaub turned away from painting , despite the onset of success , because this art direction - also in view of the technologization of music, which for him meant a transition from punk to house - no longer appeared to be contemporary. His later installations and sculptures nonetheless continue the neo-geo connection of clear aesthetic forms and specific environmental conditions: his room installations in the Austrian pavilion or in the MUMOK are on the one hand to be understood as minimalist objects , on the other hand they refer to the exhibition conditions of contemporary art in the so-called white cube . To do this, he sometimes intervenes directly in the architecture of the respective exhibition rooms in order to reveal or reverse the relationship between viewer, artwork and space, so that the exhibition visitors themselves become an (aesthetic) part of the installation.

In addition to his participation in the club scene , Rockenschaub also takes up their aesthetic elements in his artistic works and uses industrial materials such as PVC , from which his works are made according to computer designs . The computer graphics as a visual reference point, for example, in his design of the facade of the Temporary Kunsthalle Berlin clear he with in pixels let paint gridded cloud.

In 2007 Rockenschaub received the highly endowed Fred Thieler Prize for Painting. Since 2012 he has been a member of the current five-person jury of the art award.

Exhibitions

literature

  • Gerwald Rockenschaub . Exhibition catalog, São Paulo Biennial. Sao Paulo 1989.
  • Gerwald Rockenschaub . Exhibition catalog, Galerie Metropol Vienna. Vienna 1991.
  • Gerwald Rockenschaub. Art - context - criticism . Exhibition catalog, Vienna Secession. Vienna 1994.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerwald Rockenschaub . In: Art . The art magazine. Gruner + Jahr, Hamburg April 1986, ART - Lexicon of Contemporary Artists, p. 92 .
  2. ↑ www.discogs.com
  3. ↑ a b Gerhard Mack: "Sex for eyes and ears", in: art - Das Kunstmagazin , 11/2001
  4. ↑ Nicole Scheyerer: “ Gerwald Rockenschaub ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. “, In: Frieze , Issue 92, June-August 2005 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.frieze.com
  5. ↑ Martin Pesch: " Culture Club ( Memento of the original from November 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. “, In: Frieze , May 5, 1999 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.frieze.com
  6. ↑ Uta Baier: " Pictures are much too narrow for Rockenschaub ", in: Die Welt, March 20, 2007
  7. ↑ " Start of construction of the Temporary Art Gallery Berlin on Berlin's Schlossplatz ", APA / OTS, June 6, 2008
  8. ^ Information from the Berlinische Galerie on the 2013 Fred Thieler Prize Winner for Painting
  9. ↑ Gerwald Rockenschaub: Platform. In: Vienna Secession. Retrieved March 16, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Exhibition Abstract Loop Austria ( Memento of the original from 23 August 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , together with Marc Adrian , Richard Kriesche , Helga Philipp @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.21erhaus.at
  11. ^ Blueberry Fields. Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, 2016, accessed on March 16, 2018 .

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personal data
SURNAME Rockenschaub, Gerwald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz