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Bzdok, Henryk, 1976

Burch, Charlton

Bruscky, Paulo, 1976

Bruscky, Paulo

Bruscky, Paulo, 1975

Breger, Udo

Bonari, Adriano and Wolf-Rehfeldt, Ruth, 1988

Beuys, Joseph

Bertacca, Carlo, 1979

Berg, B., 1979

Barbot, Claudine, 1985

Banana, Anna, 1976

Banana, Anna, 1975

Anonymous, 1979



Anker, MP

Andre, Carl, 1982

Amen, Woody van, 1975

Altschul, Darlene, 1985

A. Doly, John, 1990

Zwischen Ausgängen
galerie weisser elefant
6th August – 15th August 2019

B – The Mail Art Archive of Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt and Robert Rehfeldt
included in: Signs of Signs
ChertLüdde, Berlin
22 September – 10 November 2018

B – The Mail Art Archive of Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt and Robert Rehfeldt
included in: For Ruth, the Sky in Los Angeles
Curated by Kathleen Reinhardt
Albertinum, SKD, Dresden
8 September 2018 – 6 January 2019

A – The Mail Art Archive of Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt and Robert Rehfeldt
Opening reception 15 September 2017
Until 11 November 2017

Press: “Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt “Signs of Signs” at ChertLüdde, Berlin” on Mousse

Press: “Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, bajo vigilancia” by Javier Hontoria on El Cultural (Spanish only)

Press: “Zeichen setzen, Zeichen lesen” by Beate Scheder on taz plan (German only)

Catalogue: B – The Mail Art Archive of Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt and Robert Rehfeldt, published by ChertLüdde

Press: “Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt and Robert Rehfeldt” by Yann Chateigné on frieze

Catalogue: A – The Mail Art Archive of Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt and Robert Rehfeldt, published by ChertLüdde

The Mail Art Archive of Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt and Robert Rehfeldt is a long term exhibition and publication project presenting the entire archive of Mail Art works amassed by the two German artists from the beginning of the 1970s until the early 1990s. Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt and Robert Rehfeldt became influential figures of the Mail Art movement within the GDR, propagating a global network of correspondences with other artists. Each exhibition and publication concentrates on a letter of the alphabet, from A to Z, cataloging every item the couple received in their years of activity. The archive is available for consultation upon appointment at the gallery.

 

Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt (b. 1932, Wurzen, Germany) lives in Berlin.
In 1950, Wolf-Rehfeldt moved to Berlin to attend the Workers’ and Farmers’ Faculty. Later she was employed by the exhibitions department at the Academy of Arts, and spent her spare time making paintings, pastels and drawings. By 1970 she started to develop her characteristic typewriter graphics (Typewritings) around the same time Rehfeldt became involved in the production and circulation of Mail Art. Eventually, Wolf-Rehfeldt began to develop her own network of correspondences. Mail Art became a way for Wolf-Rehfeldt to engage in a system of participation and exchange with the outside world despite being confined within the GDR. Wolf-Rehfeldt became a member of the Association of Fine Artists of the GDR in 1978, and her special status as a member of the AFA allowed her to print a limited number of 50 “miniature graphic” works (Kleingrafik) in print shops. Each of her works consists of an original – either an individual typed work or a series – and of further reproductions in the form of carbon copies, postcards or prints in formats ranging from A6 to A4. In this way, her typewritings were especially well suited to Mail Art regarding accessible distribution. Subsequent to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Wolf-Rehfeldt stopped her artistic production completely.

Robert Rehfeldt (b. 1931, Stargard, Germany – d. 1993, Berlin).
Robert Rehfeldt graduated from the University of the Arts in the Western sector of Berlin in 1953. While working as a freelancer in graphic art and press illustration, he carried on his artistic practice. Since 1963, he was one of the experimental artists in the Eastern part of the city and became a member of the Association of Fine Artists of the GDR. In the first years of the 70s he came into contact with the international Mail Art movement and quickly succeeded in building up an international network, becoming a pioneer of the movement in East Germany. In 1986, Rehfeldt organized the East Berlin meeting of the first “Decentralized International Mail-Art Congress”. Robert Rehfeldt died in 1993.

  • Alejandro Almanza Pereda
  • Sol Calero
  • Gabriel Chaile
  • Patrizio Di Massimo
  • Kasia Fudakowski
  • Petrit Halilaj
  • Rodrigo Hernández
  • David Horvitz
  • Heike Kabisch
  • Zora Mann
  • Franco Mazzucchelli
  • Vanessa Safavi
  • Carla Scott Fullerton
  • Alvaro Urbano
  • Erik van der Weijde
  • Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt
  • Petrit Halilaj & Alvaro Urbano
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