Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt

Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt
Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, 2012
Born	1932 (age 88–89) Wurzen, Germany
Movement	Visual Poetry, Mail Art

Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt is a German artist associated with visual poetry and mail art.^[1]

She is known particularly for a period of geometric and poetic typewriter graphics art that she calls "typewritings" produced between the 1970s and 1990, mostly as part of Mail Art collaborations.^[2] Her work is interested in environmental issues and human rights. Mail art allowed Wolf-Rehfeldt to communicate and form networks with artists living under totalitarian regimes similar to hers during a time of international isolation.^[3] A collection of her work is part of the 2017 documenta 14 art exhibition.^[4][5] She was employed as an office manager, and working as a self-taught artist under a regime of strict surveillance. She turned herself into a typist—a stereotypical female job—to enable control over the content of her pages. She practiced camouflage: aptly “sterilized” and imbued with mechanic anonymity, her signs resisted alienation to broadcast free messages and to communicate openly. ^[6] These works traveled the globe, sent as postcards from Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt in the GDR capital of Berlin to Western Europe, the Eastern Bloc, North America, Latin America, Asia, New Caledonia. No rules and no restrictions, besides formats and postage fees to ensure circulation: by distributing free artworks to a community of participants along rhizomatic routes, mail art eluded the diktats of censorship and market alike. Kunstpostbriefe (art letters) operated as free spaces of exhibition, exchange, and personal correspondence.^[7]

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External links[]

• Mail Artists Index
• Doreen Mende on Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt for art agenda 2/2015: “Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt: Signs Fiction” and “HOME ARCHIVES: Paulo Bruscky & Robert Rehfeldt’s Mail Art Exchanges from East Berlin to South America”, 2015
• Anne Thurmann-Jajes: Robert Rehfeldt and Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt Anne Thurmann-Jajes: Robert Rehfeldt and Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, 2013
• https://albertinum.skd.museum/en/exhibitions/for-ruth-the-sky-in-los-angeles/

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