Lecture: The Rehfeldts and Mail Art | The Rehfeldt Archive

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We cordially invite you to our event on 15 October at 7 pm as part of the exhibition “The Rehfeldts – an artist family from Pankow”.

Lutz Wohlrab will talk about “The Rehfeldts and Mail Art” and Julia Heunemann about the Mail Art Archive of Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt and Robert Rehfeldt (in German language).

Please register in advance by e-mail (mail@wolf-galentz.de)

Speakers

With a background in cultural and media studies, Julia Heunemann is interested in the techniques and practices of transmitting, collecting and exhibiting. She works at the Mail Art Archive of Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt and Robert Rehfeldt, writes a PhD about the historical investigation of the deep-sea and curated exhibitions e.g. at museum FLUXUS+ Potsdam and galerie weisser elefant Berlin.

Dr. Lutz Wohlrab (b. 1959) has participated in many international Mail Art exhibitions since 1985. In 1994 he co-edited the seminal work on the mail art scene in the GDR (Mail Art-Szene DDR). In 2007 a mail artist encyclopedia followed on the internet: www.mailartists.wordpress.com. He works as a psychoanalyst in Berlin. His publications include Stücke von Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt and Kunst im Kontakt on Robert Rehfeldt.