Eva Ohlow - Art for Sale

German-born Eva Ohlow uses a wide variety of materials in her art, including sheet metals, rubber, and Plexiglas (an acrylic glass sheet material). She often combines painted surfaces with her creations. Ohlow has exhibited many times and has been involved with architectural decoration in Germany.

Eva Ohlow was born in Cologne in 1940 and studied at the universities of applied arts Cologne and Wuppertal from 1959 to 1966 under Professor Schaffmeister. From 1966 she worked as an assistant to her father, the artist Prof. Hubert Berke up until 1979.

Ohlow’s works cross the boundary between planar art and sculpture often appearing flat and three-dimensional dependent on viewpoint. Her art is categorized as postwar and contemporary but it is difficult to attribute an accurate art genre to her creations as they are very unique to the artist. Ohlow travelled widely, taking on ethnological projects as well as architectural projects in Cologne and other parts of Germany.

From 1966 to 1979 Ohlow was art assistant in architecture with Professor Hubert Berke in Cologne. She stayed at the Villa Romana, Florence in 1976, and in 1983 took a trip to North West India. In 1988 Ohlow was involved with the overall colour design of the north-west centre of Frankfurt and, in that same year, undertook a trip to the Congo in Central Africa to participate in the symposium "Afro - European" under the patronage of Johannes Rau. The stay lasted until 1992 when, in that same year, she designed an entrance ceiling painting for the Kulturzentrum (cultural centre) in Eindhoven. In 1995 she undertook a project called 'Feuer, Wasser, Erde, Luft' (Fire, Water, Earth, Air) at the headquarters of GEW in Cologne. 1998 saw studies of clay architecture in Mali and Burkina Faso.

Eva Ohlow undertook a number of prestigious architectural art projects including, in 1998, the overall colour design of the north-west centre of Frankfurt. In 1999 and 2000 Ohlow took on the artistic design and creation of the entire colour concept of the Agrippabad (swimming pool), Cologne and in 2004, as part of the Wiesbaden Art Summer 2004, was guest lecturer at Wiesbaden's city park sculpture exhibition. She travelled to Mexico in 2011 to study in Toluca and in 2006 provided the colour design of the Höhenbergbad public bath in Cologne. In 2012 she exhibited photographs for the Energiezentrum Hessen (Hessen Energy Centre) and designed wall work at the Kranhaus business centre in Cologne.

Eva Ohlow continues to live and work in Cologne and still pushes the boundaries of her art by seeking out new materials and techniques to work with.

EXHIBITIONS, FAIRS & COMMISSIONS

2014 Gallery Rather Winter, Wiesbaden, Germany (group exhibition with Bodo Korsig and Kubach & Kropp)

2013 Terra Nova, Gallery Rother, Wiesbaden (solo exhibition)

2013 ART Karlsruhe, Gallery Christine Rother, Karlsruhe, Germany (art fair)

2012 art68, Cologne, Germany (solo exhibition)

2012 Christine Rother Gallery, Wiesbaden, Germany

2012 art68, Cologne, Germany (group exhibition)

2012 Cologne Paper Art 2012, Cologne, Germany (part of ARTCO gallery held in the Volcano Hall)

2012 Wesseling Art Association

2012 Lev Kopelew Forum, Cologne, Germany

2011 Bonn Women's Museum; Hall 10 CAP Cologne E.V., Cologne; Art Bodensee 2011, Dorbirn, Austria; art Karlsruhe 2011; Museo de Arte Moderno del Estado de México, Toluca, Mexico

2011 Art Zurich 2011, Zurich, Switzerland

2010 ‘Raumzeit - theoretically straight ... realistic crooked’, Galerie Reitz, Cologne, Germany (solo exhibition)

2010 ART.FAIR 21, Gallery Christine Rother, Cologne, Germany

2010 Delphi Sculpture Park, Delphi, Greece

2010 TAF The Art Foundation, Athens, Greece

2009 Cologne Museum, Cologne, Germany

2009 Art Karlsruhe 2009, Munich, Germany (art fair)

2009 Gelem, Gelem - Forgotten Europeans, City Museum, Cologne, Germany (group exhibition)

2009 Rhine + Yellow River, Science Centre, Bonn, Germany (group exhibition)

2009 Gulf Projects, Goethe-Institut, Düsseldorf, Germany (group exhibition)

2009 HLP gallery, Wesseling, Germany (solo exhibition)

2009 Adventure Travel, Bonn, Germany (group exhibition)

2008 Egyptian Museum, Bonn, Germany

2008 Photo, Miami, USA (art fair)

2008 The past is now, Egyptian Museum, Bonn, Germany (group exhibition)

2008 DFG & Science Center, Bonn, Germany (group exhibition)

2008 AGC Museum, Athens, Greece (group exhibition)

2008 ‘lost paradijs’, Kunstverein Tilburg, Tilburg, Netherlands (group exhibition)

2008 Experimental Photography - New Rubber Works, Galerie Christine Rother, Wiesbaden, Germany (solo exhibition)

2007 VOLCANO, Cologne, Germany (group exhibition)

2007 art Karlsruhe 2007

2007 Kunstverein Siegen, Siegen, Germany (group exhibition)

2007 KIAF 2007, Korean International Art Fair, Gallery 40 Rother, Seoul, South Korea (art fair)

2006 KIAF 2006 - Korean International Art Fair, Gallery 40 Rother, Seoul, South Korea (art fair)

2006 Theater Studies Collection of the University of Cologne, Schloss Wahn, Cologne, Germany (solo exhibition)

2006 Castle Wahn, Cologne, Germany (group exhibition)

2006 Photokina, Cologne, Germany (group exhibition)

2005 Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany (solo exhibition)

2005 Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof eV, Hamburg, Germany (solo exhibition)

2005 art bodensee 2005

2005 Kunsttreff Faulturm, Cologne, Germany

2004 Wiesbaden sculpture park, Wiesbaden, Germany

2004 DASA Museum, Dortmund, Germany (solo exhibition)

2004 Gallery 40 Rother, Wiesbaden

2003 Wall installation boardroom DKV, Cologne, Germany (solo exhibition)

2003 Art Bodensee 2003 (art fair)

2003 Art Fair, Cologne, Germany

2003 Fraunhofer Institute, Darmstadt, Germany (solo exhibition)

2003 Baumgarten Gallery, Freiburg, Germany (solo exhibition)

2002 Wall installation and lecture "Schutzzeichen Architektur", company Braun, Melsungen, Germany (solo exhibition)

2002 Deutsches Museum Bonn, Germany (solo exhibition)

2002 Art Bodensee 2002 Gallery 40 Rother, Wiesbaden, Germany

2001 Wall decoration, Hauptvertretung AUDI, Cologne, Germany

2001 Wall installation Kloster Heydau, Melsungen, Germany

2001 ART Frankfurt, Germany

2001 Kaliningrad Art Gallery, Russia (solo exhibition)

2001 House of the NRW State Representation in the EU, Brussels (solo exhibition)

2001 Special stand ART Cologne, Galerie Baumgarte, Cologne, Germany (art fair)

2001 Baumgarte Gallery, Bielefeld, Germany

2001 Museum Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany (group exhibition)

2000 Gallery Dagmar Hensel, Karlsruhe, Germany (solo exhibition)

2000 Gallery Scheffel, Bad Homburg, Germany (solo exhibition)

2000 Cologne City Museum, Cologne, Germany (solo exhibition)

2000 Rubber Symposium, Nuremberg, Germany (solo exhibition)

2000 Gallery Lekon, Essen, Germany (solo exhibition)

2000 Gallery 40 Rother, Wiesbaden, Germany (solo exhibition)

2000 Leipzig Art Fair, Leipzig, Germany

1999 ‘Vulcanus’, APC Galerie Köln, Cologne, Germany (solo exhibition)

1999 Artistic design (creation of the entire colour concept, as well as the design of over 1000 square meters wall surface) of the Agrippabades, Cologne, Germany

1998 Artistic designs with the material rubber, BAYER AG, Cologne, Germany (solo exhibition)

1998 ‘Game Su’, Von-der-Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (solo exhibition)

1998 ‘Energiefelder’ (Energy Fields), Galerie Lekon, Essen, Germany

1998 ‘No Comment’, APC Galerie Köln, Germany

1998 ‘Inbetween’, Kunstraum Melchior, Kassel, Germany (solo exhibition)

1998 Gallery Lekon, Essen, Germany (solo exhibition)

1998 Special booth on the Art Frankfurt, Galerie Scheffel, Frankfurt, Germany (art fair)

1998 ART ZURICH, Galerie Lekon, Zurich, Austria (art fair)

1997 Lift image design (90 x 2 m), head office of the DKV, Cologne, Germany

1997 ‘Tuchfühlung’ (Close Contact), Wuppertal-Langenberg, Germany

1997 Galería Der Reiter, Valencia, Spain

1997 Gallery 40 Rother, Wiesbaden, Germany (group exhibition)

1996 Vater/Tochter: Hubert Berke/Eva Ohlow, Galerie Baumgarte, Bielefeld, Germany

1996 Special stand on the Art Cologne, Gallery Baumgarte, Bielefeld, Germany (art fair)

1995 Schutzzeichen, Arbeitsschutzmuseum, Dortmund, Germany

1995 ‘Fire’, ‘water’, ‘earth’, ‘air’, headquarters of the GEW, Cologne, Germany (solo exhibition)

1995 Art Cologne, Gallery APC, Cologne, Germany (art fair)

1994 SION, APC Galerie Köln, Cologne, Germany

1994 Design of 50 glass windows, Rathausgalerie in Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany

1994 Architectural office RKW, Düsseldorf, Germany

1993 Tata Ost, Grassi Museum, Leipzig, Germany

1982 Kanzlei Dr. Bach, Cologne, Germany

1981 Galerie F. Friedrich, Cologne, Germany

1980 Galerie Dr. Henne, Bergisch-Gladbach, Germany

1979 Galerie F. Friedrich, Cologne, Germany

1978 Galerie Anastasia, Bergisch-Gladbach, Germany

1976 Hamburg Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany

1976 Kunsthaus, Hamburg, Germany

1975 Thomas Morus Akademie, Bensberg, Germany

1970 Kunstverein Köln, Cologne, Germany