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Elke Rehder studied at the Heatherley School of Fine Art in London (1979-1980).
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During that time she was predominantly active as a sculptor, where she created objects from iron, steel, copper, granite, marble as well as small bronzes in lost-wax castings. During her stay in London the symbolism of chess becomes a centrepoint in her artwork, following a statement by Boris Spassky: "Chess is like life". Since then, Elke Rehder creates installation art and land art projects centered around chess.
In 1991 Elke Rehder started the international cultural project "Kulturgesellschaft Europa", which is accompanied by statements of important personalities from the cultural, economical and political world.
Since then she started to collect European antique prints and illustrated newspapers. 2014 the Elke Rehder collection contained more than 50,000 historical pictures.
1992 she was honored with the award "Bernhard-Kaufmann-Kunstpreis" in Worpswede. From 1991 to 1993 she deepened her knowledge of painting at the Federal Academy of Cultural Education in Wolfenbüttel and of graphic arts at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences.
1992 Reinbek Castle, Reinbek, Germany 1993 Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, Bonn / Berlin, Germany 1993 Gallery Art und Weise, Heide, Germany 1995 Stichting Ateliers, Driebergen, Netherlands 1999 Eutiner Landesbibliothek, Eutin, Germany 2000 Gallery Silvia Umla, Völklingen, Germany 2001 Haus der Kultur und Bildung, Neubrandenburg, Germany 2003 Beeskow Castle, Beeskow, Germany 2003 Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany 2006 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek, Hanover, Germany 1995 Provinciaal Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Oostend, Belgium 1997 Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany 1997 Internationale Kunstmesse "Kunstmarkt Dresden", Dresden, Germany 1998 Austrian National Library, Vienna, Austria 1998 Gallery Language, Vienna, Austria 1998 PAPER ART exhibition Speicherstadt, Hamburg, Germany 1999 Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, Germany 2003 6th Triennale Mondiale d"Estampes, Chamalières, France 2005 Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany 2009 State Library of Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany.
