Lutz Wohlrab

Lutz Wohlrab (* 1959 in Greifswald ) is a German artist , publisher and psychoanalyst with his own practice in Berlin .

Mail Art since 1985, participation in the 1st Decentral Mail Art Congress 1986 in Berlin, organizer of the 2nd Decentral Mail Art Congress 1992 (Post-GDR Mail Art Congress) in Berlin, participation in the exhibition Mail Art Eastern Europe - in the international Network in the State Museum Schwerin 1996 and from ... no art? Mail art projects at the Museum für Post und Kommunikation Berlin 1997. Mail art projects: Animals - as which do you feel yourself and others? 1986/87, exhibited in 1990 in Weimar , Post-DDR-Mail-Art-Congress 1992 in Berlin, 2005 survey on Ray Johnson , A Mail Art-Project to Sigmund Freud's 150th Anniversary , exhibited in 2006 in the art library of the Staatliche Museen Berlin and " 20 Years since the Fall of the Wall ", exhibited in 2009 in the Prenzlauer Berg Museum, Berlin.

Participated in the exhibition Mail Art Saarland - GDR: smuggled goods or cashiers? , Saarland University and State Library Saarbrücken 2000 and in the University Library Leipzig 2001. Since 2007 he has put an international artist lexicon on the Internet. However, other analogue Mail Art projects followed, such as the 2013 Academy / Akademie (together with Klaus Staeck ) for the Academy of Arts, Berlin.

Literature (selection)

• Friedrich Winnes and Lutz Wohlrab (eds.): Mail Art Scene GDR 1975 to 1990. Haude & Spener Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-7759-0390-9
• Lutz Wohlrab (ed.); Oskar Manigk: I can't paint in Paris. Gerhard Wolf / janus press, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-928942-33-6
• Robert Conrad, Lutz Wohlrab and Martin Bernhardt: Zerfall & Abriß / Greifswald in the 80s. Self-published Berlin 1996, 4th edition 2012 , ISBN 978-3-9814296-4-0
• Lutz Wohlrab (ed.): Films on the Couch - Psychoanalytical Interpretations. Psychosozial-Verlag Gießen 2006. ISBN 3-89806-450-6 ( online )
• Lutz Wohlrab (ed.): Robert Rehfeldt - Art in Contact. Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-9814296-0-2
• Lutz Wohlrab (preface to): Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt - writing pieces. Typewritings and poems , Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-9814296-7-1
• Lutz Wohlrab: Postkunst [1] , Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-9814296-9-5

Web links

Commons : Lutz Wohlrab  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Lutz Wohlrab in the catalog of the German National Library
• Mail Artists Index (German)
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