RITA ROHLFING – HOFFENT_LICHT, Diana Lenz-Weber, Gustav-Lübcke-Museum, Hamm, 2021 Diana Lenz-Weber During the set-up of Rita Rohlfing’s HOFFENT_LICHT exhibition, we were all caught out in the cold: freezing temperatures and contact restrictions weighed equally heavily on our minds. In the bone-chilling days of February 2021, in the midst of the

RITA ROHLFING – The Virtual in the Concrete, Bettina Zeman, Clemens Sels Museum Neuss, 2015 Bettina Zeman In preparation for the exhibition “The Virtual in the Concrete”, Rita Rohlfing studied the interior space of the Clemens Sels Museum Neuss very intently. Its architectural givens were to her an inspiration for

RITA ROHLFING – Works with Photograhy, Peter Lodermeyer, Clemens Sels Museum Neuss, 2015 Peter Lodermeyer I. The setting could hardly be simpler, the effect hardly more complex. Rita Rohlfing has installed a site-specific work to lead into her exhibition, “The Virtual in the Concrete”, at the Clemens Sels Museum Neuss

RITA ROHLFING – reflection, Sabine Elsa Müller, Bildhauersymposium Heidenheim, 2013 Sabine Elsa Müller More fortress than castle, the formidable Hellenstein Castle stands high over the River Brenz, testimony visible from afar to its lasting endurance down through the centuries. And now, with it, stand six stainless steel slabs rise monumentally

RITA ROHLFING – THE VIRTUAl IN THE CONCRETE, Klaus Flemming, DG Kunstraum München, 2000 „Large-scale reality produces large-scale unreality.“ Max Bill A clearly defined cuboid: Upon entering the room, one’s eyes meet its front wall measuring almost three meters. It is necessary to walk four meters along its long side,

RITA ROHLFING´S MARVELS OF SPACE – Gabriele Uelsberg, 2004 The artist Rita Rohlfing does not make it easy for any observer or interpreter to ascribe her artistic endeavour to any one genre. She is a passionate painter who engages in a dialogue with colour. She paints, without however producing paintings

RITA ROHLFING – RED LIGHT DISTRICT – Katharina Chrubasik, Alte Rotation, LVR LandesMuseum Bonn, 2002 Between Three-dimensional Object and Space Red Light District – An interior installation by Rita Rohlfing The architecture of the Alte Rotation is a continuous challenge to artists. The former industrial space with its numerous recesses

RITA ROHLFING – RED LIGHT DISTRICT – Katharina Chrubasik, Alte Rotation, LVR LandesMuseum Bonn, 2002 Christian Krausch „Works of art that are entirely understood by insight and intellect are not really art.“ Theodor W. Adorno Museums are erotic places. The relationship between a work of art and the observer is

RITA ROHLFING – COLOR – SPACE – SCULPTURES, Gabriele Uelsberg, Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders, 1999 Gabriele Uelsberg When everything goes well, we make out of our universe, something that should be erratic and bent, a simple canvas. One with corners and paints on it. And we look at it and say: