Vera Röhm was born in Landsberg/Lech in 1943. From 1961 to 1967 she studied at the Académie Charpentier in Paris and at the École Cantonale des Beaux-Arts et des Arts Appliqués in Lausanne. Work stays in New York, New Mexico and California as well as further long trips followed. In 1972 she created her first metal and stone works with Plexiglas. Her work is represented in many private and public collections. Röhm is a member of the Darmstadt Secession. In addition to sculpting, she also works as a set designer, painter and graphic artist. Today she lives in Darmstadt and Paris.
The group of works called Completions includes sculptures in which wood and Plexiglas enter into a symbiotic relationship. These works, full of harmony and beauty, fascinate the viewer through the connection between nature and technology. For the production of the sculptures, mostly elm wood is broken and then liquid Plexiglas is poured into the break, in the spirit of healing nature through art. In large cycles – often presented in nature –, her captivating work is based on the principles of Land Art, which – similar to Vera Röhm's experiments with this matter – originated in the 1970s and are limitless in their claims.
The sculptures develop an attractive sensuality, especially when exposed to light. The viewer can hardly escape the magic of an Completion, which is given by the repeatedly surprising transparent connecting part.
The idea for the special sculptures emerged from Vera Röhm's observations of storm-damaged, broken tree trunks in 1975: The traces of destruction inspired the artist to heal these injuries by adding Plexiglas to the missing, broken wood. The result is exciting and enthralling combinations of wood and plastic, organic and inorganic, solid and transparent, poetry and construction.
Röhm forms geometrical and constructive sculptures that can range from individual steles to entire stele fields. Over the years she has created countless variations in shape – smaller, fragile-looking Completions stand in contrast to massive floor sculptures that tower above smaller houses.
