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Gerd Rohling (born 1946, lives and works in Berlin) moved to West Berlin in 1971, studied at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin with Gerhard Bergmann until 1977, and in the painting class of Karl Horst Hödicke, with whom he became a master student. In 1979, together with Frank Dornseif, Ter Hell and Reinhard Pods, he founded the Berlin artists' group and self-help gallery of the same name, 1/61. In 1979 he was awarded the Villa Romana Prize. A year later, in 1980, he received the PS1 Fellowship in New York. Since then, Gerd Rohling has worked in the fields of painting, object art, sculpture and film and had solo exhibitions in museums in South America, Holland, Italy, Africa, India and Germany.
In 2001 he exhibited his project „Water and Wine" at the Biennale di Venezia, curated by Harald Szeemann. The installation was subsequently shown at the Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin in 2003 and at the Hamburger Bahnhof in 2009.
In 2013, he conceived a complete installation for the Weserburg Museum of Modern Art with the exhibition 'Inside - Outside', which showed the more recent series of works 'Immer im Bilde - Rouge' and 'Sweet(n) Sour', and in which Rohling used films alongside paintings and sculptures in a 'playful manner'. All the works were acquired by the Böckmann Collection, Berlin. Further solo exhibitions were among others, 2018 "Der Sprung", Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig and 2021 "Birthday Lucio Fontana", Villa Grisebach Window, Berlin.
Photo: Oliver Mark
4 farbiges Wunder ohne Erklärung, 2021
Four paintings plus electric oven door: Transparent spray paint on plexiglass | painting and collage (lacquer, photocopy, glas, steel)
106 cm x 80 cm (paintings, incl. steel frame)
39 cm x 49 cm x 5 cm (electric oven door)Enquiry
Bar Gloria Hotel Rio de Janeiro - 18.1.1996, 2014
Spray paint, plexiglass, antique frame
50 cm x 59,5 cm x 4 cm (incl. frame)Enquiry
Blue Garden Edinburgh - 15.7.1983, 2014
Spray paint, plexiglass, antique frame
62 cm x 61,5 cm x 5,5 cm (incl. frame)Enquiry
Captains Bar Hydra - 18.6.2019, 2021
Spray paint, plexiglass, antique frame
47 cm x 40,5 cm (incl. frame)Enquiry
From the series "GALA", 2015
Shoe, mirror
IndividualEnquiry
Its Yours, Brooklyn - 1967, 2014
Spray paint, plexiglass, antique frame
42 cm x 37 cm x 4 cm (incl. frame)Enquiry
Pinguin Lounge Hailfax - 16.4.1968, 2014
Spray paint, plexiglass, antique frame
75 cm x 84,7 cm x 5,7 cm (incl. frame)Enquiry
Sweet Caroline, 2025
Two pieces: Lacquer, assemblage, plexiglass |
"Geigenkasten", assemblage
43,5 cm x 31 cm (Assemblage, incl.. steel frame)
73 cm x 90 cm x 9 cm ("Geigenkasten")Enquiry
Sweet 'n'sour, Nr. 1, 2005
Varnish, collage, assemblage on aluminium
85 cm x 110 cm (incl. frame, glass)Enquiry
Sweet 'n'sour, Nr. 3 , 2005
varnish, collage, assemblage on aluminium
85 cm x 110 cm (incl. frame, glass)Enquiry
Sweet 'n'sour, Nr. 5, 2005
Varnish, collage, assemblage on aluminium
85 cm x 110 cm (incl. frame, glass)Enquiry
Sweets for my Sweet 2, 2025
Two pieces: Assemblage on aluminum | candy jar containing six "Sweetarts"
81 cm x 106 cm (assemblage), 24,5 cm (candy jar, height)Enquiry
TIEFBLAUES VERSPRECHEN, 2012
Transparent spray paint on mirror
55x41 cmEnquiry
Weltbild 14, 2000
Painting, assemblage on chipboard, metal frame, incl. video
161,5 cm x 161,5 cm Enquiry
Adelphi Hotel LIverpool - 13.5.1995, 2010
Spray paint, plexiglass, antique frame
30 cm x 40 cm x 2,5 cm (incl. frame)Enquiry
Bar Rosso Milano - 15.10.1976, 2020
Spray paint, plexiglass, antique frame
50 cm x 42,5 cm x 6,5 cm (incl. frame)Enquiry
Broadway /42th. Street, 2017
Painting, assemblage on chipboard, metal frame
170 cm x 250 cm Enquiry
Due Poli Bar Napoli - 15.4.1992, 2022
Spray paint, plexiglass, antique frame
52 cm x 57 cm x 8,5 cm (incl. frame)Enquiry
Hello is it me you're looking for, 2025
PVC, neon lamp, wood, plexiglass panel
43 cm x 41 cm x 48 cmEnquiry
Peggys Party, 2001, 2016
Two pieces: Spray paint, plexiglass, metal fram | Bar: cheap metal, glas tap, three glas bottles with coloured liquid (red, blue, yellow), neon lamp
162 cm x 171 cm (painting)
84 cm x 66 cm x 39 cm (bar)Enquiry
ROUGE , 2012
Three pieces: Photo work under acrylic glass | paint on parabolic antenna | video film
94 cm x 130 cm (photo work)
∅ 103 cm (parabolic antenna)Enquiry
Sweet 'n'sour, Artforum, 2005
Varnish, collage, assemblage on aluminium
80 cm x 105 cm (incl. aluminium frame)Enquiry
Sweet 'n'sour, Nr. 2, 2005
Varnish, collage, assemblage on aluminium
85 cm x 110 cm (incl. frame, glass)Enquiry
Sweet 'n'sour, Nr. 4, 2005
Varnish, collage, assemblage on aluminium
85 cm x 110 cm (incl. frame, glass)Enquiry
Sweet 'n'sour, Nr. 6, 2005
Varnish, collage, assemblage on aluminium
85 cm x 110 cm (incl. frame, glass)Enquiry
TIEFBLAUES VERSPRECHEN, 2012
Transparent spray paint on steel
Ø 44 cmEnquiry
TIEFBLAUES VERSPRECHEN, 2012
Transparent spray paint and collage on aluminum sheet
82x107 cmEnquiry
Weltbild 4, 2000
Painting, assemblage on chipboard, metal frame, incl. video
221,5 cm x 181,5 cm Enquiry