Artist Profile: Gerd Rohling

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