Gerwald Rockenschaub was one of the first artists to engage in crossover between club culture and high culture. His works refer directly to everyday life and the present. He samples, quotes, mixes, reappropriates, shifts. In his work Poster (2007), he translated an already existing poster into abstract forms.

Gerwald Rockenschaub, born in 1952 in Linz. Er lebt in Berlin. Recent solo exhibitions include Close-up GUSTAV KLIMT ~ GERWALD ROCKENSCHAUB Plattform, Secession, Vienna (2012); multidial, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (2011); Promise vs.Reality, Villa Stuck, Munich (2009); Swing, Kunsthalle Bern; exterior work for the Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin (2008); New Season Beauty, Berlinische Galerie (2007). Recent exhibition participations includeSCULPTURE NOW, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich; Bilder über Bilder, Mumok, Vienna (2010); just what it is, ZKM Karlsruhe (2009); documenta 12 (2007); Space Invaders, Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz/Basel (2005).