Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt

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Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, 2012

Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt (* 1932 in Wurzen ) is a German artist specializing in visual poetry and mail art .

Life

From 1947 to 1950 Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt did an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk. In 1950 she moved to Berlin and from 1951 studied at the workers and farmers faculty , after which she studied philosophy for a year. In 1954 she met Robert Rehfeldt , whom she married a year later. She found a job in the exhibition department of the Academy of Arts and drew and painted on the side.

In the early 1970s she began to develop her typical typewriter graphics and to participate in her husband's mail art . In 1975 she was accepted into the Association of Fine Artists of the GDR. In 1990 she largely stopped her artistic work.

On her 80th birthday in 2012 , the Weserburg Museum for Modern Art in Bremen showed her entire oeuvre of typewritings. An edition of her best sheets was also produced by Verlag Lutz Wohlrab . This is how Jennifer Chert became aware of her. In 2015 the Chert Gallery in Berlin dedicated a solo exhibition to Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt. In 2016 a monograph and the book Schriftstücke and articles in various art magazines were published. In 2017 she took part in documenta 14 in the Neue Neue Galerie exhibition hall in Kassel .

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1975 Galeria Teatru Studio Warsaw (together with Robert Rehfeldt)
  • 1976 Gallery in the Literaturhaus Budapest (together with Robert Rehfeldt)
  • 1980 Club gallery "Otto von Guericke", Magdeburg
  • 1981 Sit Petri Gallery, Lund, Sweden
  • 1985 goal gallery Neubrandenburg
  • 1986 Heringsdorf Art Pavilion (together with Robert Rehfeldt)
  • 1989 Fliesenwerke Boitzenburg (together with Robert Rehfeldt)
  • 2012 Study Center for Artist Publications in the Weserburg | Museum of Modern Art Bremen
  • 2015 SIGNS FICTION, Chert Gallery Berlin, Inselgalerie Berlin
  • 2017 Writing Pieces, Immanence Paris; A - The Mail Art Archive of Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt and Robert Rehfeldt, ChertLüdde Gallery Berlin; PRESSURE │ IMPRINT Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, Charlotte Johannesson, Ester Fleckner, Malmö Konsthall
  • 2018 For Ruth, der Himmel in Los Angeles, Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt & David Horvitz, Albertium Dresden, Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt: Signs of signs & B - The Mail Art Archive of Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt and Robert Rehfeldt, ChertLüdde Gallery Berlin, Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, National Gallery of Albania in Tirana

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 1972 Galeria Sztuki Informacji Kreatywnej, Wrocław / Breslau
  • 1977 Visual Poetics, Museu de Arte Contemporânea, São Paulo
  • 1978 Workshop 1978, Otto-Nagel-Haus Berlin
  • 1993 Text picture text, Museum Salzwedel
  • 1996 Mail Art Eastern Europe - in the international network, State Museum Schwerin (catalog)
  • 1997… no art? Mail Art Projects, Museum for Post and Communication Berlin
  • 2009 Topless and unbroken, artist publications from the GDR, Study Center Weserburg - The Museum of Modern Art Bremen (catalog)
  • 2009 Subversive Practices. Art under conditions of political repression - 60s – 80s / South America / Europe, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart (catalog)
  • 2013 Arte Postale, Akademie der Künste, Berlin (catalog), “Text”, Berlin
  • 2015 Art is a written word, Galerie Meyer, Marseille; Abstraction of Economy, Danish National Art Library, Copenhagen
  • 2016 Art Basel Feature; Votes against. Art in the GDR from 1976 - 1989, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (catalog); Seeable / Sayable, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
  • 2016/17 flap one, monkey dead ..., Kunstsaele Berlin
  • 2017 IN THE BEGINNING WORD ON. Kunsthaus of the Achim Freyer Foundation; Out of office. Office art or the office in the museum, Museum for Concrete Art, Ingolstadt (catalog); Documenta 14 in Kassel (catalog); Behind the mask. Artists in the GDR, Museum Barberini Potsdam (catalog); You've got 1243 unread messages, Latvian Center for Contemporary Art, Riga
  • 2018 “Germany is not an island”, Collection of Contemporary Art of the Federal Republic of Germany. Acquisitions from 2012 to 2016, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn; “Hello World. Revision a Collection ”, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin; “Behind the Horizon…” Art of the GDR from the collections of the State Museum Schwerin; “Types of Typewriting” in the Weddinger Galerie Oqbo space for image, word and sound; Real Pop 1960 - 1985, Brandenburg State Museum for Modern Art

literature

  • Guillermo Deisler, Jörg Kowalski (Hg): wortBild -Visual Poetry in the GDR, Halle 1990
  • In the beginning there was the word, Lüdenscheid 1984
  • Discussion. In: “Mail Art Eastern Europe - in an international network”, Staatliches Museum Schwerin 1996 (catalog), pp. 125–145 (de, en).
  • Round table “Is Mail Art still alive today?” In: “Mail Art Eastern Europe - in the international network”, State Museum Schwerin 1997 (congress documentation), pp. 79–99 (de, en).
  • Marvin and Ruth Sackner: Typewriter Art, Sieveking Verlag 2015.
  • Matthias Ehlert: Pictures from Signs, Weltkunst 114/2016, pp. 48–55.
  • Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt: Signs Fiction , Monograph, published by Chert and Motto Books, 2016.
  • Dona Schons: Signs and Miracles, Monopoly 09/2016, pp. 26–27.
  • Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, Scripture Pieces. Typewritings and poems , Berlin 2016.
  • Konrad Hawlitzki: The typewriter, poet and painter Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, marginalia, 225th issue 2017
  • Lena Schneider: Die quiet Kraft, Potsdamer Latest News from December 2nd, 2017
  • Lorina Speder: Diversity of key art, Der Tagesspiegel from June 18, 2018
  • Uwe Salzbrenner: Curves, stars, blocks, balances, Sächsische Zeitung from 8.09.2018
  • Javier Hontoria: Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, bajo vigilancia, EL CULTURAL, 10/30/2018 (spain)
  • Susanne Kippenberger: Rediscovered female artists, Tagesspiegel 02/17/2019 [1]

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personal data
SURNAME Wolf-Rehfeldt, Ruth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist in the fields of visual poetry and mail art
DATE OF BIRTH 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Spice up