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Regung 1997-I/II
Acrylic, lacquer on aluminum, 84 x 42 x 15 cm
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La primavera, 1999-20
Acrylic, lacquer on aluminum, 43 x 63 x 4 cm
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Farb-light-modulierung, 2008-92
Acrylic, lacquer on MDF, 30 x 90 x 4 cm
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Farb-light-modulierung, 2008-75
Acrylic, lacquer on MDF, 15 x 45 x 3 cm
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Color light module, 2013-19
Acrylic, lacquer on MDF, 48 x 32 x 10 cm
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Color light module, 2017-18
Acrylic, lacquer on MDF, 40 x 60 x 30 cm
SIGURD ROMPZA
Born in 1945 in Bildstock, Germany, lives and works in Germany.
The artist must renew the sense of autonomy in their work. Their goal is linked to a subjective interaction: it must resonate, the viewer sharing with the artist the color-form that they appropriate with their own codes and sensory experience. Sigurd Rompza is one of the rare artists who reflects on and contextualizes artistic theory in order to ensure the artistic gesture. This raises the fundamental question about the artistic element: who shows what to whom, with what, and how?
Text by Bernd Philippi
Sigurd Rompza emphasizes that he encourages viewer participation in his work, much like a whole generation of 20th-century artists. At the heart of this participation lies the eye's natural movement as it analyzes what it sees in space. The linear relief of the form, here playing on the flatness of the wall, allows the eye to follow its development, and the viewer unconsciously participates in this movement. His wall-mounted light objects are, in fact, colored forms that instruct the eye on the emerging movement of the volume.
Works in museums and public collections
Ursuline Museum, Mâcon, France
Museum Bochum, Germany, Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken, Germany,
Museum Lodz, Poland
Wilhelm-Hack-Museum,
Ludwigshafen, Germany, Chôlet Museum, Fr.,
Museum gegenstandsfreier Kunst, Otterndorf, Germany,
Museum of Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt, Germany,
Museum of Grenoble, France
Espace de l'Art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux, France
Museum Würzburg,
Ruppert Collection, All
Cambrai Museum, France
Museum Tome, Jap
Neuchâtel Museum, Switzerland
Landesmuseum, Mainz, Germany
Museum Neue Galerie, Graz, Aut.;
Contemporary Art Center, Marcigny, France
Pontoise Museum, Fr.
Selection of the main exhibitions
2025 Bildspiel - Sprachspiel. Sigurd Rompza and Eugen Gomringer in dialogue, Saarlandmuseum/Moderne Galerie, Saarbrücken
2023 Sigurd Rompza / Sehstücke 1983-2022, Institut für aktuelle Kunst im Saarland, Saarlouis
Sigurd Rompza - >Sehstücke<, Galerie Leonhard, Graz
2022 Games of Images - Games of Language, with Eugen Gomringer, Galerie St-Hilaire, Fribourg
2021 Sigurd Rompza - Color-Light Modulations - Wall Objects, Kunstkabinett of the Spielvogel Gallery, Munich
Recent works, with Jean-Pierre Maury, Quadri Gallery, Brussels
2020 AnsichtSachen - Sigurd Rompza - Reliefs and wall sculptures, Kunstraum Friesenstraße, Hannover
2019Sehstücke, Saarlandische Galerie, Berlin
Is it as it appears to us?, with Jan Meyer-Rogge, Galerie Contemporanea, Oberbillig
2018 Sehstücke, Fanal Gallery and Edition, Basel
La Vitrine Gallery, Fribourg
2017 Sehstücke, Galerie Ruhnke, Potsdam
2016Sehstücke, Galerie Leonhard, Graz
2015 Sehstücke, Galerie Spielvogel, Munich
Sehstücke, Galerie La Vitrine, Fribourg
2014 Sehstücke, Galerie Contemporanea, Oberbillig
Sehstücke, Galerie La Ligne, Zurich/CH
2012 Sigurd Rompza, Galerie Wilmsen, Hergartz
Sehstücke, Galerie Leonhard, Graz
Kunstverein Wiligrad, Lübstorf, Germany
2010 Sens Museum
2008 Museum gegenstandsfreier Kunst, Otterndorf, Germany
2007 Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany
2006 Matisse Museum, Le Cateau-Cambrésis
Selection of works available in the shop
