Rokas Wille was born in Frankfurt am Main in 2002.


Career

Rokas Wille graduated from high school in Mannheim in 2019. He is currently studying media art at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design. In addition to film, he works continuously with media such as painting, drawing, sculpture, and text.

His work often criticizes capitalism, the nation-state, and the market economy—mostly through a positive counter-proposal: either by showing the dream of a humane future, or by celebrating contemporary anti-capitalist practices, human relation(s), and the good life.


Screenings

He made his first short films at the age of nine, and at 15 he won second place at the 2017 Tiefenschärfe – Vielfalt im Fokus short film festival in Mannheim with his documentary Klaus und Achim. In 2025, the film was screened again at the Queer Film Festival Weimar.

His film miniature "lützerath, oktober 2022" portrays a place where the good life and a humane society were already beginning to shine through. It was screened in 2025 at the Collaborative Future short film festival in Gmünd. Together with his other film miniature "Lützerath January 2023" it was screened as part of the traveling exhibition "Lützer ART" in 2023 in Cologne at the Atelier für Gegenwartskunst (Studio for Contemporary Art), as well as in 2024 at the House of Art and Culture Artik in Freiburg and at the Kunstverein (Art Association) Letschbach in Karlsruhe. They were also screened in 2024 as part of the exhibition "(L)ignite" at the Wachsfabrik art center in Cologne.

In addition he made a series of other scenic, documentary, and animated short films and experimental video works.
More of his films can be found at rokaswille.de/en/films


Sculptures in exhibitions

Rokas Wille's independent work of five paper models of soil structures from Lützerath was exhibited at the Kulturbunker in Cologne in 2023.
He was then commissioned by the DAM (German Architecture Museum) in Frankfurt am Main to create the work "40 Paper Models of Ground Structures from Lützerath" as an extension of the same motif. as part of the exhibition "Protest/Architecture" in 2023 at the DAM (German Architecture Museum) in Frankfurt, in 2024 at the Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) in Vienna, and in 2025/26 at the Prague City Gallery GHMP in Prague.
In addition, the work was part of the 16th Triennial of Small Sculpture (Triennale Kleinplastik) in Fellbach in 2025.

He exhibited his abstract paper works "Irregular Paper Sculpture No. 4," "Untitled Paper Sculpture," and others at the tenth anniversary of the architecture magazine Moderne Regional in Berlin in September 2024.


Commissioned works

In 2017, he created a video work for the Ernst Bloch Center Ludwigshafen as part of the exhibition "Church-Crown-War. Thomas Müntzer zwischen Reformation und Revolution“ (Church-Crown-War. Thomas Müntzer between Reformation and Revolution). In 2020, he was responsible for the artistic video ‘Hope’ for the Stadtmuseum (City Museum) Ludwigshafen in the context of the lockdown project ”Luxus in LU" (Luxury in LU). In 2021, he was commissioned by the Stadtmuseum (City Museum) Ludwigshafen to design and implement six video installations with a total running time of 40 hours for an exhibition of biographical interviews entitled "Youth Worlds – Youth Dreams – Talkin' 'bout my generation". In 2025, he was commissioned by the Humboldt Forum Berlin to animate a Mayan painting and an Aztec sculpture for the Ethnological Museum Berlin, the permanent exhibition "Old America", the media station, module "Pre-Hispanic Music."
In 2025, he was commissioned by the Karlshochschule International University to film and edit an event weekend.

He did VFX and compositing work for several films by other filmmakers.


Other activities

In 2021, he was a member of the jury in the “Future Fiction” creative competition organized by KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology).
He gave an interview about his paper works to the podcast of the architecture magazine "Moderne Regional".