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Tobias Rehberger operates within these fields of critical definition without considering them to be particularly meaningful for his work. In doing so, he deftly puts out of action the entire policy underlying art-critical interpretations. By giving the visitors the possibility to co-determine the furnishing and design of the exhibition space, by translating the proposals or specifications submitted by friends and acquaintances into artistic environments, furniture or portraits that then bear the signature of both the proposer and the artist, and by making the function of his installations and objects dependent on the willingness of others to use them, Rehberger always discusses one basic question: What is actually a work of art, and how much of it is conditioned by notions, perceptions and external influences? Thus, everything could be done differently, if one only knew how.

Tobias Rehberger

German sculptor

Tobias Rehberger (born June 2, ) is a German sculptor, born in Esslingen am Neckar.^[1] He studied under Thomas Bayrle and Martin Kippenberger at the Stadelschule in Frankfurt am Main, where he now teaches.

Work

Rehberger works in the wider sphere of design and architecture, and his art is complex to categorize. He has created an idyllic Japanese garden in the middle of Manhattan; Pop-inspired wallpaper consisting of photographs of his organs; a series of Modernist-looking treehouses in a park in northern Germany; and an enormous tanker based on a crude boat that the father of a friend built to escape from Vietnam.^[2]

For his art-car series, a project that he began in , Rehberger sent simple sketches, composed essentially from memory, of a Porsche and a McLaren F1 to a manufacturer in Thailand.

There were no measurements or schematics included.

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The only parameters were that the cars had to be driveable and built to human scale.^[3]

Rehberger also spent some time in Cameroon, where he provided native crafts workers with his unsophisticated drawings of well-known modernist chairs and asked them to recreate the designs.

The results were filled with cultural misreadings: Alvar Aalto's classic three-legged stool, for instance, was given an extra leg for stability.^[4]

On the east side of Madison Square Park in New York, Rehberger in created Tsutsumu, an elegant Japanese garden made up of a large bonsai tree, a bench and a rock.

Early in the morning, even on sweltering August days, the Public Art Fund sprayed the garden with four inches of man-made snow.^[5]

Rehberger received the Golden Lion award for best artist at the Venice Biennale.^[6] In December , he unveiled his public sculpture Obstinate Lighthouse, commissioned by the City of Miami Beach.

In , he was commissioned to design a square feet (65 square metres) project space in the Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art in Seoul, Korea.^[7] Rehberger designed an exclusive collection of purses and bags for the German fashion label MCM in ^[6]

In , Riley claimed that a wall-sized, black-and-white checkerboard labor by Tobias Rehberger plagiarised her painting Movement in Squares and asked for it to be removed from display at the Berlin State Library's reading room.

Tobias Rehberger is represented by neugerriemschneider in Berlin.

Rehberger works in the wider sphere of design and architecture, and his art is difficult to categorize. He has created an idyllic Japanese garden in the middle of Manhattan; Pop-inspired wallpaper consisting of photographs of his organs; a series of Modernist-looking treehouses in a park in northern Germany; and an enormous tanker based on a crude boat that the father of a friend built to escape from Vietnam. For his art-car series, a project that he began inRehberger sent simple sketches, unruffled essentially from memory, of a Porsche and a McLaren F1 to a manufacturer in Thailand. There were no measurements or schematics included.

Exhibitions (selection)

Kunsthalle Basel
Moderna Museet, Stockholm,
Sprengel Museum, Hannover
Geläut – bis ich's hör , Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe,
Bitte danke, Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart, /
Private mattersWhitechapel Gallery, London,
Cancelled projects, Museum Fridericianum, Cassel,
Home and away and outside installation, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, ^[8]
New York Bar Oppenheimer, Hotel Americano, New York, ^[9]
Dazzle Ship London, HMS President, London, ^[10]^[11]

Recognition

Förderpreis des Internationalen Kunstpreises of Baden-Württemberg Landes,
Ten-Preis
Karl-Ströher-Preis
Golden Lion for Best Artist that responded to the theme "Fare Mondi // Making Worlds" Venice Biennale

Notes and references

^Tobias Rehberger Bio, artnet Database.
^Maura Egan (October 8, ), The ProvocateurT: The Fresh York Times Style Magazine.
^Maura Egan (October 8, ), The ProvocateurT: The New York Times Approach Magazine.
^Andrea Codrington (January 15, ), Public EyeNew York Times.
^Carol Vogel (May 25, ), Art in the ParkNew York Times.
^ ^a^bWilliams, Maxwell (June–July ).

"Razzle Dazzle: Sculptor Tobias Rehberger teams with MCM on a striking bag collection". W. 45 (5). Condé Nast:
^Tobias Rehberger: ‘ sex and friends’, January 13 – February 16, Pilar Corrias, London.
^Frankfurt show review, The Guardian
^Tobias Rehberger's NY Bar Oppenheimer, Dezeen Magazine.
^"DAZZLE SHIP – LONDON".
Memoriesforart » Artists » Tobias Rehberger. Gender: Male. Nationality: Germany. Date of Birth:
NOW. Retrieved June 25,
^"Artist Tobias Rehberger docks his 'dazzle' warship on London's River Thames". . Retrieved June 25,

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