<i>Genretapete</i>, CTM.07, Maria am Ostbahnhof, Berlin 2007, ca. 6 x 3 m
<i>Genretapete</i>, CTM.07, Maria am Ostbahnhof, Berlin 2007, detail
<i>Genretapete</i>, CTM.07, Maria am Ostbahnhof, Berlin 2007, detail
<i>Genretapete</i>, Galeria Pauza, Krakow 2005, ca. 10 x 3,5 m
<i>Genretapete</i>, Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst Montevideo, Amsterdam 2008, ca. 6,2 x 3 m
<i>Genretapete</i>, Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst Montevideo, Amsterdam 2008, detail
<i>Genretapete</i>, Nuits Sonores Festival, Piscine du Rhone, Lyon 2007, ca. 25 x 3 m
<i>Genretapete</i>, Nuits Sonores Festival, Piscine du Rhone, Lyon 2007, ca. 25 x 3 m
<i>Genretapete</i>, Nuits Sonores Festival, Piscine du Rhone, Lyon 2007, ca. 25 x 3 m
<i>Genretapete</i>, Nuits Sonores Festival, Piscine du Rhone, Lyon 2007, ca. 25 x 3 m

Genretapete
Series of wallpapers and adhesive film cutouts, dimensions variable, 2001 - ongoing.

Originally started as a collaborative effort of Jan Rohlf and Maverick and since 2005 continued by Jan Rohlf solo, the work "Genretapete" ("genre wallpaper") plays with the contrary motifs of singularisation and collectivisation within pop culture by tracing the daily permutation of codes used to describe music. The series is based on a continously expanded collection of names invented by individual music producers, critics, recipients and consumers to describe their affiliation with or rejection of specific music genres. In structuralist terms, the alphabetically listed musical genres represent signifiers of the viewers' personal experience. The viewer thus becomes the resonating-body for the genres.