Overview

With these Rollkorper, Verhas explores the traditional definition of sculpture, but overturns it by creating a moving multifaceted work whose identity changes with its position. The concept of multiple perpectives is challenged and redefined. The viewer cannot only see the customary exterior sides of the sculpture; the under and upper sides can also be examined alternately. Verhas redefines the object not as a predetermined form viewed at different angles, but as a varying identity defined by its viewpoint and position.

Works
  • Archaic Open House
    Archaic Open House, 2024
    bronze
    40cm x 40cm x 40cm (16" x 16" x 16")
  • Laokoond
    Laokoond, 2020
    bronze
    33cm x 23cm x 44 cm (13" x 9" x 17")
  • Rolling Contrapost
    Rolling Contrapost, 2020
    bronze
    24cm x 18cm x 21cm (9" x 7" x 8")
  • Two Bigger Rolling Rings
    Two Bigger Rolling Rings
    Bronze
    40cm x 30cm x 30cm (16" x 12" x 12")
  • Outsider
    Outsider,
    bronze
    30cm x 27cm x 23cm (12" x 11" x 9")
  • Rolling Seastar
    Rolling Seastar,
    Bronze
    38cm x 31cm x 31cm (15" x 12.2" x 12.2")
  • Threedimensional Highway
    Threedimensional Highway,
    Bronze
    26cm x 26cm x 26cm (10.2" x 10.2"x 10.2")
  • Dividing Fat Lines
    Dividing Fat Lines,
    Bronze
    34cm x 20cm x 20cm (13.4" x 7.9" x 7.9")
  • Walking Pillow
    Walking Pillow,
    Bronze
    12cm x 13cm x 13cm (4.7" x 5.1" x 5.1")
  • Correspond
    Correspond,
    Bronze
    28cm x 20cm x 20cm (11" x 7.9" x 7.9")
  • Combined Steps and Stairs
    Combined Steps and Stairs,
    bronze
    30cm x 20cm x 15cm (11.8" x 7.9")
Exhibitions
Publications
Biography

Born in Essen in 1960, Maximillian Verhas studied Painting and Graphic Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg from 1981 until 1986 before taking up Sculpture at the University of the Arts in Berlin from 1986 until 1990. He began creating his so-called Rollkorper, i.e. rolling bodies, around the end of his degree.

 

Selected solo Exhibitions 
2016       'Other Sides of Sculptures in Motion', Galerie Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin, Germany.
2014 Galerie Scorpion, Hamburg, Germany.
2009 Galerie Anaaan, New Delhi, India.
2007 Galerie Sculptur, Bamberg, Germany.
1998 Skulpturenpark, Galerie Des Beaux Arts, Berlin, Germany.

 

selected group exhibitions and fairs
2022 Galerie Barbara von Stechowm Frankfurt, Germany.
2019 'Gruppenausstellung Architektur', Galerie :ichael W. Schmalfuss, Berlin, Germany.
2012 Art Fair Köln, Cologne, Germany. 
2010 Art Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
2009 Galerie Anaaan, New Delhi, India.
2006-08 Haus Greiffenhorst, Krefeld, Germany.
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