Gerd Rohling (born 1946 in Krefeld, based in Berlin) is a German multi-disciplinary artist questioning the ongoing dream of an art which, he insists, is a universal language richly mirroring the existence of humankind in all its shallows and depths (Carsten Ahrens, former director of Museum Weserburg). The artist works in the fields of painting, object art, sculpture and film. Lucius Griesebach (former founding director New Museum Nürnberg) observed, that Rohling is avowedly a Romantic, not an analytic concept artist but instead a picture-finder, a picture-creator of the old school.
His solo exhibitions include Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (DE), Museum Weserburg, Bremen (DE), Museum Boijmans van Beuningen Rotterdam (NL), Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig (DE), The National Gallery of Jamaica (JAM), Museo nazionale archeologico di Napoli, Neapel (I), and Museo de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro (BRA).
He participated in group exhibitions internationally, most notably at Venice Biennale curated by Harald Szeemann (I), Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (DE), at the exhibition "Alegoria Barroca na Arte Contemporanea" in South America and Spain (Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro (BRA)/ Museu de Arte Sacra, Salvador-Bahia (BRA)/ Museu Julio de Castilhos, Porto Alegre (BRA)/ Museo de Arte Sacro, Cordoba (ESP)/ Museo de Arte Contemporaneao, Santiago de Chile (CHL)) and this year, at "Böse Blumen" Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg/ Nationalgalerie Berlin (DE).
He was a co-founder of the Berlin artists' group and self-help gallery 1/61 together with Frank Dornseif, Ter Hell and Reinhard Pods. He was awarded the Villa Romana Prize and he received the PS1 Fellowship in New York.