Lars Rosenbohm
There are possibilities so true and untrue
The exhibition in the foyer of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld shows current works by the Bielefeld artist Lars Rosenbohm (*1971 in Lemgo). In his charcoal drawings and paintings, he opens up a space of possibilities in which the boundaries between figuration and abstraction become blurred. Based on an intuitive working process, Rosenbohm’s gaze alternates between the outside, the body, the shell – the concealment and the view into the inside – the organic – the depth, beneath the surface. In overpaintings, fragmentations and additions, his motifs merge into a complex visual language that combines opposites and brings the uncertain and ambivalent to the fore.
I can say that I am interested in certain contrasts and an ambivalence is expressed in the processual activity. I show and at the same time I conceal again. I combine the experienced and the imagined. Memories, current affairs, interior, exterior. I’m revealing something, I’m puzzling. I am preoccupied by the uncertain, the intangible. Even scary things. Spreading. Movement, energy, strength and control. The mask or veil as a motif has been appearing in my work for years. And thus beings somewhere between human, animal and fantasy figure. They are questions to myself.
Lars Rosenbohm, 2025
You can find more answers from the artist in the KB Journal.
Lars Rosenbohm (*1971 in Lemgo) lives and works in Bielefeld. His studio is located in the artists’ house Artists Unlimited.
Rosenbohm’s works have been exhibited at the Museum Marta Herford, the Kunsthalle Bielefeld, the Kunsthaus Essen, the Museum Schloss Moyland, the Saarland Museum, the Westfälischer Kunstverein, the Kunstvereine in Bielefeld, Oerlinghausen, Lippstadt, Ludwigshafen, Gütersloh and Lemgo, among others. Also in galleries and project spaces in Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Biel/Bienne, Austin, Barcelona, Ghent, Kassel, Wuppertal and Osnabrück.
Lars Rosenbohm’s works are represented in the collections of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld, the Marta Herford and the Hanseatic City of Lünen.
He has received grants from the Kunststiftung NRW, the Aldegrever Gesellschaft Münster, the Landesverband Westfalen-Lippe, the Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft NRW and the Stiftung Kulturwerk, Bonn.
In 2023, Rosenbohm was awarded the CityARTists Art Prize NRW as a representative of the city of Bielefeld. He has been nominated for other art prizes, such as the Belgian IKOB Art Prize and the Gütersloh Woldemar Winkler Art Foundation Prize.
Gallerie
