Draft:Ro.Ka.Wi.

Ro.Ka.Wi. (alias Rozália Katalin Vimmer; * 1952 in Budapest) is a German-Hungarian artist.

Life and Work
Ro.Ka.Wi. was born in 1952 in Budapest. From 1973 to 1979, she studied graphic arts and painting at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, where she was a master student of Ignác Kokas. Her works include paintings, paper works, object art, artist books, and photography. She was part of the art circle around the Ultimate Academy founded by Al Hansen, the Humane Society for Intellectual Necrophilia (HGGN), and the Art Service Association (ASA) initiated by Boris Nieslony. Ro.Ka.Wi. was co-editor of the edition nekrophil with Péter Farkas. She lives in Cologne, Germany.

Exhibitions and Participations (Selection)

 * 1991: broken view, Ultimate Academy, Cologne
 * 1991: Bizarre Christmas, Moltkerei Werkstatt, Cologne
 * 1992: Aktionen Interaktives Malen, ASA-News on the occasion of the project "Piazza Virtuale - Quantenpool Köln" at Documenta X, Kassel, live on 3sat 1992
 * 1993: Dialog-Installation, International Performance Art, Dresden-Hellerau
 * 1994: field trip, Potsdam/Krampnitz; Galerie im Staudenhof, Potsdam
 * 1995: ars erotica (ERÓZIÓ), Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt a. M.
 * 1998: G-Sicht/Schicht-N, Calcografie, Cologne
 * 2003: Hommage an Louis Buñuel, Schöner Wohnen Sitzkunst, IMM Cologne, Cologne
 * 2010: Labyrinth (Irrgarten der Künste), Kolbhalle, Cologne
 * 2019: Mood of a Decade - New York Canvas and NY Boxes, Verlag IL, Cologne
 * 2023: Magyar Neo-Avantgarde in the 1960s/1970s, Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin

Editions (Selection)

 * 1993: Hast du? Genossen - / East Erotic Epic. Photo edition. Verlag IL Cologne.
 * 1996: Swim in the white free abyss. Artist book.
 * 2017: I explain Duchamps. Photo edition.

Literature

 * Installierte Rituale. In: Apex, Nr. 17, 1993.
 * Ro.Ka.Wi. - Sicht Bruch - Broken View. Verlag IL, Cologne 2022.
 * Géza Perneczky: Harmonie und Leichtigkeit der Sicht-Brüche - Die analogen 3D-Bilder von Ro.Ka.Wi.; The Harmony and Lightness of the Broken Views - On Ro.Ka.Wi.’s analogue 3D artworks.
 * Jürgen Raap: Festmahl und Feldreise - Notizen zum künstlerischen Werk von Ro.Ka.Wi.; Feast and Field Trip - Notes on the Artwork of Ro.Ka.Wi.
 * Valentina Korte: Installierte Rituale - Köpfe und Masken; Installed Rituals - Heads and Masks.
 * Lea Lahr: Mood of a Decade - die New York Bilder von Ro.Ka.Wi.; Mood of a Decade - Ro.Ka.Wi.’s New York Pictures.