Rokas Wille was born in Frankfurt am Main in 2002.

At the age of nine he made his first short films, and at the age of 15 he won second place at the 2017 short film festival “Tiefenschärfe – Diversity in Focus” in the city of Mannheim with his documentary “Klaus and Achim”.

Rokas Wille graduated from high school in Mannheim in 2019.
He has been studying media art at the University of Design (HfG) in Karlsruhe since 2020. As part of his studies, he has already produced a large number of scenic and experimental film and video works; some of them are animated films. He also continually works with media such as painting, drawing, sculpture and text. He also creates visual effects for films by student filmmakers.

Exhibitions

Rokas Wille's independent work of five paper models of ground structures from Lützerath was exhibited in the Kulturbunker in Cologne in 2023. He then received the commission from the DAM (German Architecture Museum) in Frankfurt to create “40 paper models of ground structures of Lützerath” in an extension of the same motif. This work was then exhibited in the exhibition “Protest/Architecture” at the DAM Frankfurt in 2023 and in 2024 at the MAK (Museum of Applied Arts) Vienna in 2024.

He exhibited his abstract paper sculptures such as “Irregular Paper Sculpture No. 4” and “Untitled Paper Sculpture” at the tenth anniversary of the architecture magazine “Moderne Regional” in Berlin in September 2024.

Films by him on Lützerath: “lützerath, oktober 2022” and “Lützerath Januar 2023” were shown as part of the traveling exhibition “Lützer ART” in 2023 in Cologne at the Atelier für Gegenwartskunst (atelier of contemporary art) and in 2024 at the art galery Artik in Freiburg and at the Kunstverein Letschbach in Karlsruhe, as well as in 2024 as part of the exhibition “(L)ignite” at the Kunstzentrum Wachsfabrik in Cologne.

Commissioned work

In 2017, he created a video work for the Ernst Bloch Center in Ludwigshafen as part of the exhibition “Church-Crown-War. Thomas Müntzer between Reformation and Revolution”. In 2020, he was responsible for the artistic video “Hope” for the Ludwigshafen City Museum as part of the lockdown project “Luxury in LU”. In 2021 he was commissioned by the Ludwigshafen City Museum to design and implement six video installations with a total duration of 40 hours for an exhibition of biographical interviews under the title “Youth Worlds - Youth Dreams - Talkin' 'bout my generation”.

Other activities

In 2021 he was a jury member in the “Future Fiction” creative festival of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
He gave an interview about his paper sculptures to the podcast of the architecture magazine “Moderne Regional”.