（Germany, b. 1975)
Tanja Rochelmeyer graduated from the Berlin University of Applied Sciences and currently lives in Berlin, Germany. Many of her creations draw inspiration from her engineering background, emphasizing attention to detail and mathematical precision. However, calculations are not the medium of creation but an intermediate step in the creative process. Her training as an engineer has contributed to a perfectionist approach to technology, creating a sharp contrast with the moments of image creation. Ultimately, she positions herself and the subject of her creation within this contrast. "Constructivism and futurism meet the latest architecture and merge into a new language of modern painting." Tanja Rochelmeyer creates maze-like, dispersed spatial configurations, introducing multiple perspectives into the concept of imagery.
Tanja Rochelmeyer's work began with black and white abstract paintings with architectural and landscape depictions. Driven by curiosity about spatial perception, Rochelmeyer gradually transformed flat paintings, experimenting with three-dimensional sculptural installations or relief forms. She translated the perspective, spatial intersections, rotations, and compressions in her paintings into sculptures made of individual pieces of acrylic glass collage. She wanted to explore the spaces between the gaps in her paintings, open them up, and investigate them, ultimately giving shape to the intermediate spaces that are not visible in two-dimensional images. The compression, stretching, and bold directional shifts of blocks on a two-dimensional surface are transformed into soft, streamlined colored transparent acrylics, creating a visual pattern of space. With the introduction of color elements, a sense of optical illusion in space is added. The relief series enlarges and overlaps specific details of her paintings and frames them. These works can be described as a visual pattern of space, including vocabulary for angles and trajectories. Monochromatic blocks penetrate and soak into different areas with powerful tension, guiding the viewer towards deeper perspectives.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020 Tanja Rochelmeyer – Architectual Landscapes, Alexander Ochs Private, Berlin
2020 Tanja Rochelmeyer – Surface to Air, Galerie der Stadt Backnang, Backnang (Cat.)
2019 Tanja Rochelmeyer – Surface to Air, Kunstverein Leverkusen Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen (Cat.)
2018 Tanja Rochelmeyer, Kunstverein Coburg
2018 Tanja Rochelmeyer, Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf
2016 Polyfokale Räume, LAProjects – Galerie für internationale Gegenwartskunst, Landshut New Works, Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin
2015 Architrav, fahnemann projects, Berlin
2014 Tanja Rochelmeyer, fahnemann projects, Berlin
2013 Neue Arbeiten, fahnemann projects, Berlin
2013 Tanja Rochelmeyer, Studio d’Arte Cannaviello, Mailand
2012 Awe/ Rochelmeyer, fahnemann projects, Berlin
2011 Tektonik, fahnemann projects, Berlin 2010 Beyond Space, loop – raum für aktuelle kunst, Berlin
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Frequently asked Questions, Uferhallen, Berlin
2023 All over, a pick gallery, Turin, Italy Le Bateau Ivre, Galerie Hartwich, Rügen
2023 Wild Grass, Bluerider ART, Shanghai Bottom up, Kühlhaus, Berlin
2022 Waltz, Bluerider Art, Taipei, Taiwan
2022 8 Bluerider Art, Taipei, Taiwan
2022 Anders Normal! Revision einer Sehschwäche, Märkisches Museum Witten, Witten
2021 Behind the scene of hidden tracks, Schau Fenster, Berlin
2021 Made in Germany, Bluerider Art, Taipei, Taiwan
2020 Pleased to meet you, Märkisches Museum Witten
2020 Switch on, Bluerider Art, Taipei, Taiwan
2020 Art in the times of C, Alexander Ochs Private, Berlin
2019 Boxenstopp, Kwadrat, Berlin
2019 Alptraum, TAM Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, USA
2019 Spa & Beauty, Galerie Hartwich, Rügen
2018 Eigenbedarf, Uferhallen, Berlin
2018 Vision, Intuition, Expression, LAProjects, Landshut
2018 Salon der Gegenwart 2019, Hamburg
2018 +1, Safe Gallery, Berlin
2017 Neue Abstraktion – Campau, Flad, Rochelmeyer,
2017 Projektraum Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin
2017 Artists against Aids, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn
2017 Surf, Galerie Hartwich, Sellin auf Rügen
2017 Architecture and Abstraction, 68Projects, Berlin
2016 Die Geschichte hat, zu viele Erzähler, Kunstverein Gütersloh
2016 35 Jahre Galerie Fahnemann, Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin
2016 Struktion, Kühlhaus, Berlin
2015 Synthetic Fields, Kunsthalle/PLU41, Berlin
2015 Abstraktur, Vitamin Kunst-Projekte, Reutlingen
2015 Neue Malerei aus Deutschland, National Fine Arts Museum, Hanoi, Vietnam (Kat.)
2015 Alptraum, Salon de Lirio, Goa, India
2015 Statements 2. New Paintings from Germany, Goethe-Institut, Hong Kong, China (Kat.)
2015 Weiter, Galerie Anja Knoess, Cologne
2015 Konrad/ Muche/ Rochelmeyer, Kunsthaus Essen, Essen
2015 Alptraum, Salon de Lirio, Goa
2015 Alptraum, Visual Voice Gallery, Montreal, Canada
2014 Pragmatic Painting, Galerie Knut Hartwich, Sellin auf Rügen
2014 Neue Abstraktion, Galleria Interno 18, Cremona
2014 Alptraum, UGM Maribor Art Gallery, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Slowenien
2013 A Time of Gifts, Märkisches Museum Witten
2013 Erkundung und Spiel. Nonfigurative Malerei und Objekte, St. Marienkirche, Frankfurt/Oder
2013 Berlin – Klondyke, Alte Baumwollspinnerei, Werkschau-Halle, Leipzig
2013 Dritter Internationaler André-Evard-Kunstpreis, Kunsthalle Messmer, Riegel
2013 Ostrale 013, Areal der Messe Dresden
2012 Grahnert/ Hellmich / Messmann / Rochelmeyer, Galerie Scharmann, Cologne
2012 Losito Kunstpreis, Großes Waisenhaus, Potsdam
2012 Alptraum, Goethe Institut Johannesburg, South Africa
2012 Abstract Confusion, Neue Galerie Gladbeck
2012 Alptraum, Green Papaya Art Projects, Quezon City, Philippines
2012 Berlin Status I, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (Kat.)
2102 Abstract Confusion, Kunsthalle Erfurt
2012 Remarks, Schau Fenster – Schauraum für Kunst, Berlin
2011 Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin
2011 Alptraum, The Company, Los Angeles, USA
2011 Abstract Confusion, B05 Kunst- und Kulturzentrum, Montabaur (Kat.)
2011 Alptraum, blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa
2011 Abstract Confusion, Kunstverein Ulm
2011 Halleluwah – Hommage an CAN, Abtart, Stuttgart (Kat.)
2011 Neue Abstraktion, Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin (Kat.)
2011 Halleluwah- Hommage an CAN, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2010 Mixed, Märkisches Museum, Witten (Kat.)
2010 2. Internationaler André-Evard- Kunstpreis, Kunsthalle Messmer, Riegel
2010 Mixed, Brandenburgischer Kunstverein, Potsdam
2010 Re-Entry. Color, form and object, loop – raum für aktuelle kunst, Berlin
Biennals
2013 Ostrale 013 – We Cross the Rubicon, Ostrale, Dresden, Germany
Art Fairs
2020 ART KARLSRUHE, Germany
2019 ART COLOGNE, Cologne, Germany
2019 ART BERLIN, Germany
2018 ART BERLIN, Fair for modern and contemporary art, Berlin, Germany
2017 UNTITLED Miami Beach, FL, USA
2014 ART COLOGNE, Cologne, Germany
2013 ART COLOGNE, Cologne, Germany
Collections
Kupferstichkabinett Berlin
Sammlung Michael Stich, Hamburg
Sammlung Dornbracht, Iserloh
Sammlung Winzer
Sammlung Leinemann, Berlin
Sammlung Coroplast, Düsseldorf
