Tobias Rehberger

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Tobias Rehberger at the 200th anniversary of the Städelschule in 2017.

Tobias Rehberger (born June 2, 1966 in Esslingen am Neckar ) is a German sculptor . He is a professor at the State University of Fine Arts - Städelschule Frankfurt am Main . Rehberger is best known for his room-filling installations .

life and work

Tobias Rehberger, anti-social daughter , 2004, sculpture in the Austrian Sculpture Park

Rehberger studied from 1987 to 1992 with Thomas Bayrle and Martin Kippenberger at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main . His works move freely between painting , sculpture , design , action art and architecture . He produces minimal artistic interventions as well as space-filling environments.

A first early work by the artist, shown in 1990 at the Bonner Kunstverein as part of “Art Students Exhibit”, points to the artist's strategy: the student Rehberger saw - on a smaller scale - simple, colored drawings of all Bundesliga players from Eintracht Frankfurt made of plywood and presented it to an irritated audience, filling the wall. The work followed on from Konrad Lueg's 10 footballers from 1964. For a public exhibition in 1992 under the title 9 sculptures in the private apartment of the rector of the Städelschule Kasper König , Rehberger recreated nine large- scale sculptures by famous artists of art history in model size from PU foam , wire, model construction compound, poster paint, wax , paper mache , wood and synthetic resin paint .

From then on, Tobias Rehberger practiced a mixture of art and design. The fact that he attaches little importance to authorship and originality in his work was also shown in an exhibition in 1994 under the title Rehbergerst in the Bärbel Grässlin gallery in Frankfurt am Main. For this presentation he painted and watercolored - enlarged 1: 4 - the image production of his father, who worked as a hobby painter: motifs that he grew up with in his parents' house. In addition to the pictures, replicas were also several pieces of furniture shown: a bathroom cabinet, a living room board and a small table. In contrast to the pictures, these pieces of furniture were not exact reproductions on a scale of 1: 4, but were very freely reproduced by Rehberger, but reproduced from memory in original size.

In the mid-1990s, Rehberger had cabinets and shelves made by an Austrian craftsman, which he carried out strictly according to instructions. Rehberger had previously telephoned the dimensions and properties of these from memory, which in some cases led to “strange” results. For the models of automobiles made by craftsmen in Thailand since 1999, sketches drawn from memory by the artist served as templates.

The mere “presumption of their existence” had two works on the subject: Rehberger designed women's and men's underwear for the 1997 Venice Biennale and had them made in different sizes. The supervisory staff was required to wear this artist's underwear during working hours. Instead of the expected work of art, this was communicated to the visitors of the Biennale in a text that was attached to the wall. In 2001 he made use of a similar strategy at the Westphalian Art Association in Münster : under the title Maserati Quattroporte , he exhibited a 2 × 2 × 5 meter large, industrially painted metal box. The question of whether the box actually contained the legendary Italian luxury car in the original was left to the public's guesswork by the artist. “It not only prompts the consideration of the importance of seeing and recognizing by the viewer for the existence of a work of art, but also of how an object is defined by the projections that are linked to its exterior and what meaning the projections have when the object is not visible? " ( Susanne Gaensheimer )

As part of the of Kasper King and Wilfried Dick Hoff led arts program in between the EXPO 2000 in Hannover Rehberger designed under the title Tsutsumu a 40-meter Japanese garden with water features , stone fields and stunted pines and turned this idyllic middle of summer in a winter still life, in which he let snow from a (invisible) snow cannon .

In 2008 Rehberger designed the 90 cm high "lamp" Infection 3N2 from Velcro tape, cables and lamps .

For which he designed and in a composite material performed cafeteria in the central exhibition palace the 53th Venice Biennale under the title What you love also makes you cry , received Rehberger on 6 June 2009, the award "Golden Lion" for the best artists . The design, which runs across the floor, all furnishings and ventilation pipes in stripe and dot patterns, suspends the three-dimensional perception of space for the observer. “ I've always been interested in how visible something is. It's about creating a certain reality of life and not just standing in front of a work of art and looking at it. In Venice, I wanted to combine a camouflage pattern that you actually overlook with a functional place. “(Tobias Rehberger) A similarly designed café by Rehberger was opened in 2009 in the Kunsthalle Baden-Baden .

Rehberger designed another interior design in 2009 for the Club Nu Soul in the Ostend of Frankfurt am Main. After the club was evacuated in March 2012, the interior furnishings were treated with such care and badly damaged by the property owner that, according to the artist , resale on the art market can be ruled out .

Rehberger is also represented with a work in the visitor restaurant in the Reichstag building in Berlin. In 2011, as part of the exhibition MMK 1992 - 2011. 20 years present of the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt am Main in the temporary exhibition building in the former headquarters of Degussa , the Maintor , parts of its canteen furnishings for the former Dresdner Bank in Frankfurt am Main shown. The furniture, lamps and carpets created in 2000 are now (2011) in the possession of the museum and were named Dubai, Milan, Montevideo, Moscow, New York, São Paulo, Singapore and Tokyo after the bank's foreign offices. During the temporary exhibitions, the furniture was used by a restaurant called 96 Commissary , where, according to press reports, good dishes could be eaten in self-service at reasonable prices and good quality until October 9, 2011.

Since May 2015, the sculpture path has connected 24 stops with works by Tobias Rehberger, connecting the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen ( Canton Basel-Stadt , Switzerland ) with the architecture park “Campus” of the Weiler company Vitra .

Slinky springs to fame

The bridge sculpture Slinky springs to fame designed by Rehberger was completed in summer 2011 . The total of 406 meters long structure crosses the Rhine-Herne Canal in Oberhausen . It connects the city's two leisure facilities with a 170-meter-long ramp in the Kaisergarten , the 106-meter canal crossing (62 meters of which is freely suspended over the water) and a final 130-meter ramp on the Emscher Island. Within the two sheet metal strips, which are twisted into a spiral, there are screwed precast concrete parts in 16 different shades, which serve as a 2.5 m wide walkway and cross the shipping canal at a height of ten meters.

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Other objects in public space

  • For the Berlin State Library Rehberger total created four abstract clocks objects, including the newly opened in March 2013 Rare Book Reading Room. After only 9 days of public viewing, a plagiarism scandal broke out around one of these objects, as the "Clockwork" object is strikingly similar to the work of art in Bridget Riley's work "Movement of Squares" (1961) .
  • Front garden of the Städel Museum in Frankfurt am Main: Capri Moon
  • “The Moon in Alabama” (2014): Tobias Rehberger has transformed eleven switch boxes around the Münster train station into colorful art objects.
  • 24 stops between the Vitra Campus and the Fondation Beyeler

Rehberger lives in Frankfurt am Main and Berlin, where he employs teams of up to 25 assistants for his work.

Quote

"My artistic work also has to do with design, because I'm interested in the question of what influence the surface of a work of art has on its effect."

- Tobias Rehberger, 1996

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Prizes and awards

literature

  • Uta Grosenick (Ed.): Tobias Rehberger 1993-2008 , Dumont, Cologne, 2008 ISBN 978-3-8321-9126-9 .
  • Eva Linhart (Ed.): Tobias Rehberger. flat. Posters, poster concepts and wall paintings , Museum of Applied Arts, Frankfurt am Main 2010 ISBN 978-3-942405-00-3 .

Web links

Commons : Tobias Rehberger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Illustration by Luegs Untitled - Zwei Fußballer (1964) on artnet.de (accessed on September 21, 2008)
  2. ↑ Internet page of the ZKM | Museum for New Art, Karlsruhe  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www02.zkm.de  
  3. ↑ Image on the website of Galerie Grässlin (accessed on September 21, 2008)
  4. ↑ Press text ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the Westphalian Art Association for the exhibition ... (whenever you need me) , 2001 (accessed on September 21, 2008) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.westfaelischer-kunstverein.de
  5. ↑ Rehberger in an interview with the Stuttgarter Zeitung on September 5, 2009 ( memento of the original from September 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de
  6. ↑ Rehberger Club furniture in FAZ from October 30, 2013, page 29
  7. ↑ Beautiful food in the exhibition in FAZ from June 24, 2011, page 54
  8. ^ Hannes Lauber, badische-zeitung.de: New art path from the Fondation Beyeler to the Vitra Campus . Badische Zeitung , January 19, 2015
  9. ^ Rehberger-Weg between Vitra Campus and Fondation Beyeler , Stefan Tolksdorf, Badische Zeitung, June 11, 2016, accessed June 12, 2016
  10. ↑ There is little need to be light in: FAZ of July 23, 2011, page 32
  11. ↑ Berlin State Library: “Art in the building”, Haus unter den Linden , press release (2009) ( Memento of the original from March 8, 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. ; Evening show: “Stabi” opens spectacular reading room , March 19, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / staatsbibliothek-berlin.de
  12. ↑ Plagiarism dispute over a Stabi image
  13. ↑ Stefan Lüddemann : "Moon in Alabama": Eleven moons shine over Münster ; Niklas Maak : Art, please use it. Tobias Rehberger grows bizarre light objects out of gray switch boxes in Münster, on which one can sit, in: FAZ No. 5, January 7, 2015, p. 9.
  14. ^ Stefan Tolksdorf: Rehberger-Weg between Vitra Campus and Fondation Beyeler , in: Badische Zeitung, June 11, 2016, accessed June 12, 2016
  15. ↑ Claudia Voigt: “Or just drink tea” , in: SPIEGEL special , 12/1996, page 58
  16. ↑ Frankfurter Kunsthalle Schirn shows Tobias Rehberger , dpa / OP from January 15, 2014, accessed January 24, 2014
  17. ^ Galerie Neugerriemschneider: Tobias Rehberger. presently ( Memento of the original from April 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , gallery-weekend-berlin.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gallery-weekend-berlin.de
  18. ↑ www.labiennale.org ( Memento of the original dated February 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.labiennale.org
  19. ↑ Tobias Rehberger receives the Goethe badge from the city of Frankfurt , Nils Bremer, Journal Frankfurt, June 24, 2016, accessed June 27, 2016
  20. ↑ Tobias Rehberger's speech in the Kaisersaal , Journal Frankfurt, December 7, 2016, accessed on December 9, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Rehberger, Tobias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Esslingen am Neckar