CHRISTIAN ROTHMALER and FLORIAN MAHRO
"KOOL 'KOKKO" (January, 17th until February, 5th 2010)

Please click here to view images from the exhibition "OKOOKOKO POLYGON"
(May, 18th - June, 15th 2008)

The human being, his behaviour, his perceptive and his feelings are decidedly influenced by spaces and rooms. Rooms, more then any other material good, have the ability to communicate.
Their communcation can be provocant, edifying, intimidating, neutral, but it could never be without one.
If a room is able to communicate with his environment, then it is a highly demanding aim by an artist to react on this communication.
For Christian Rothmaler and Florian Mahro rooms are the starting point to their artistic reflexion.
They see their duty in the clarification of rooms and in this process the borders between the generic terms disapear, a kind of hybrid appears, and the intersection between architectures and sculpture is becoming unclear. Thus poetic metastructure is built up, which aims to a new perceptive on the spectator. This creation of new visions of the room is (in another step) the starting point to create a picture of this utopia.

 

Christian Rothmaler

born 1982 in Kiel/Germany
Since 2003 he studies fine arts at HfbK Hamburg
at Professor Stefan Kern, Peter Piller, Thomas Scheibitz and Hendrik Krawen

Exhibitions

2004 Krude Welt (Crude World), Gallery HfbK, Hamburg
---------2-Kanalstücke (2-Channel pieces), Hochschule Wismar/Germany

2005 Zusammenhängen (Sticking together), Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg/Germany

2006 Gurken Okookoko (Cucumber Okookoko), Oelsener Pavillion, Hamburg
---------Johnny Okookoko Cash, Galerie auf der Empore, Konstanz/Germany

2007 Ohne Titel (no title), Gallery HfbK, Hamburg
---------Turbo Okookoko, Clementine Clayonnage, Hamburg
---------Das schöne Geld (beautiful money), Ausstellungsraum, Hamburg

2008 Okookoko Polygon, WCW-Gallery, Hamburg
---------Okookoko Hyper Polygon, Clementine Clayonnage Compact, Hamburg
---------MoFA, Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg
---------Vandel #1,"Ressort für serielle Taste Production", Hamburg
---------Vandel #2, TÄT, Berlin
---------Spitzenwerke der Zeichnung aus der Sammlung
---------Abstädt, Atelier Emanuel Seitz/ Michael Hackel, Munic

2009 Vandel #3 -- The Realness, Golden Pudel Club, Hamburg
---------builder vor boatin, Silvershed, New York
---------Baahlsam #1 -- Knochen, Wohnung Erbel/Croce, Berlin
---------VANDEL #4, AtelierFrankfurt, Frankfurt a.M.
---------Sommerfestival, WCW-Gallery, Hamburg
---------Moraltarantula III "Der Sommer der Vernunft", Gängeviertel, Hamburg
---------Pudel Art Basel, Golden Pudel Club, Hamburg
---------From a Distance, WCW-Gallery, Hamburg, Berlin, Travemünde, London
---------Ulli und Lucrecia's lustige Gruppenausstellung mit Party, Five Thirty Three Gallery, Los Angeles
---------VANDEL #5, Marks Blond, Bern
---------Morgens Sex mit der Geliebten Magda im Coupé, danach Arbeit am Ausführungsgesetz über den ---------Artikel 48, Ressort für serielle
---------Tasteproductions, Hamburg
---------Hiscox 2009, Kunsthaus, Hamburg
---------Poison - Fundamentale Fragen und Rekorde, K-Studios, Hamburg
---------Fischmarkt, Digga, Fischmarkt, Lothringer 13, Städtische Kunsthalle München

2010 KOOL 'KOKKO, WCW
---------Mischpoke, Linda e.V., Hamburg
---------Da Hood, Gängeviertel, Hamburg
---------Der Frühling, FUCKER! Hammer und Brot, HfbK, Hamburg
---------Hustle + Expressionismus heute, Artary Galerie, Stuttgart
---------Harte Gefühle, Silvershed, New York