Reinhard Bock aka boKens aka Ken Bos
enjoing life on friend Christian's boat
cruising the Havel (photo: C. Karras., 2024)

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Stages of my life - CLICK on pics to see more!

Born in January 1945 in Meissen/Sachsen, Germany (my pregnant mum was evacuated to Meissen due to heavy allied forces' bombardement of Berlin and the advancing of the war front towards Berlin in winter 1944/1945).
I returned to Berlin in 1953, happily grew up in Berlin and lived here since then.

In early 1962 I got my first "real" guitar, a blonde archtop FRAMUS Hobby model 5/50, and my school mate Michael Zeitner and I formed a skiffle group. In summer I went to  » England for an English language holiday camp. Back in Berlin we jammed as often as possible in our  » skiffle group.
I finished grammar school in 1964.

•  1963/1964 - 1966 Singer and rhythm guitarist with Berlin based beat band  » THE TORIES

•  1964 - 1970 Study of classics, history, politics and geography at Free University Berlin

•  1971 Finishing studies with First State Exam.

•  1972 - 1975 coop life in  » fabrikneu with ANGELIK RIEMER, CLAUDIA SKODA, JENNY CAPITAIN, JÜRGEN SKODA and KLAUS KRÜGER in Berlin-Kreuzberg doing a whole lot of super8 filming in the  » streets of Kreuzberg ,  » the backyard of fabrikneu and then, in the late 70s, the  » PABLO PICASSO. or the  » WILD THING . fashion show using the Kippenberger catwalk in the media hall.

•  1974 Celebrating the  » marriage to ANGELIK RIEMER

•  1975 Birth of son  » CHRISTIAN EMIL AUGUST.

•  1974 - 2007 Working as grammar school teacher, organizing student internet exchanges between Los Angeles (USA) and Tokyo (Japan) from 1994-2007 including multinational multimedia web competitions (and doing a lot of film, photo and writing work as an artist - if time left. - My favorite piece of film work? Filming Claudia's first real big fashion show:  » PABLO PICASSO in 1979.)

After finishing school teaching in 2007, I intensified my artistic work.
The first Fo(u)r Screens came to live, I started a series of portrait films in 2009 and had my first solo show in 2011.

Angelik and me were travelling Japan very often, enjoying the kindness of people, the tasty freshness of food and - of course - the overwhelming museum culture evreywhere.


•  2014 Angelik passed away.

•  2017 Marriage with HENRIETTE ROTHER.

My art work is a river - fed by multiple wells.
This river can partly be streamed to you through this website in the following sections:

•  1970 - 1982 super8 short  » films
•  1972 - 1984 and from 2014 until today  » Polaroid SX70 photography

•  since 1978  » songs and compositions (boKens), series of novels, short stories, non-fiction and  » photo books (Reinhard Bock and Ken Bos)

•  since 1981 analogue  » video films and clips

•  since 1996 digital picture work (Reinhard Bock, rbockberlin).

•  since 2007 I was free to explore whatever I want to in the artistic fields.

•  in 2012, after participating in some group exhibitions, I had my own single artist exhibition.

•  between 2010 to 2024 - through the appreciation of Martin Kippenberger's and Claudia Skoda's work - my documentary Super8 film were shown in many museums world wide.

Reinhard Bock aka boKens lives and works as free lance new media artist in Berlin.

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Info on my exhibitions and installations  » HERE
or start  » HERE floating through my RIVER OF ART

or go to the website of THE TORIES  » HERE.

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