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Room 10
6 January – 17 May 2010
Renate Köhler – Older Works
In the wake of sculptor Stefan Wewerka, works by Renate Köhler (born in 1957) will be shown in Room 10 until the beginning of May. From 1976 to 1981, Köhler was a student in Wewerka’s class in the School of Art and Design at the University for Applied Sciences in Cologne. Within the context of color painting, the fundamentals of which were the subject of intensive research by several students in the class, Köhler pursued an idiosyncratic path dealing with the materiality of color. In the 1980s she created pictures “painted” with string, and then using this as a basis, clothing, whose forms were developed from the painting experiences. These works are redolent of stylized figurine designs of the classical modern era (for example, by Lothar Schreyer, Oskar Schlemmer, and Andor Weininger), though by way of contrast they are individually differentiated with painterly sensitivity and assume additional volume as “bodies of color” when used and moved around. The brochure on the artist, which accompanies the exhibition, points to aesthetic parallels in the experience of nature.
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