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Rosemarie Trockel

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b. 1952, Germany

Rosemarie Trockel has always used a diverse range of genres and media in her work, from sculpture and drawing to collage, photography, video, and installation. She also uses a variety of materials, not least wool, with all its socially charged meanings. Her deep engagement and experiments with wool over many years have allowed Trockel to attain great freedom in her handling of the medium.

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In the most recent works in wool, the material is placed like a stroke of the brush on the canvas, initiating a subtle examination of twentieth-century abstract painting. A similar approach is evident in her handling of ceramic and ceramic-like material such as Acrystal, which she combines with Plexiglas in her recent sculptures. She applies casts of different cuts of meat to transparent, curved carrier panels, wittily referring to stylistic innovations of twentieth-century art yet also dislodging the material from their conventional connotations or meanings.

Rosemarie Trockel (b. 1952) is included Il Palazzo Enciclopedico, 55th Venice Biennial where in 1999 she presented her work at the German Pavilion. Parallel to the exhibition A Cosmos in Madrid, New York, and London. 2012—2013, a solo exhibition, Flagrant Delight, was presented at Wiels, Brussels, Culturegest, Lisbon, and the Museion Bozen. Other recent solo exhibitions include Kunstbau im Lenbachhaus, München, 2002, Post-Menopause, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 2005, as well as MAXXI, Rome, 2005, Deliquescence of the Mother, Kunsthalle Zürich, 2010, as well as an exhibition of drawings, collages, and book designs that travelled to the Kunstmuseum Basel, the Talbot Rice Gallery in Edinburgh, and the Kunstmuseum Bonn, 2010—2011.

Text courtesy Sprüth Magers.

Recent Exhibitions

Contemporary art exhibition, Rosemarie Trockel, Why gravel, Ms. Smith? at Sprüth Magers, London, United Kingdom Closed 25 January–19 March 2022 Rosemarie Trockel Why gravel, Ms. Smith? London
Contemporary art exhibition, Group Exhibition, local talent at Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany Closed 4 July–22 August 2020 Group Exhibition local talent Berlin
Contemporary art exhibition, Group Exhibition, Eau de Cologne at HART Hall, H Queen's, G/F, 80 Queen's Road Central, Central, Hong Kong, Berlin, Germany Closed 26 March–12 April 2019 Group Exhibition Eau de Cologne Berlin
Contemporary art exhibition, Thea Djordjadze, Rosemarie Trockel, Un soir, j'ai assis la beauté sur mes genoux. And I found her bitter. And I hurt her. at Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany Closed 7 July–26 August 2017 Thea Djordjadze, Rosemarie Trockel Un soir, j'ai assis la beauté sur mes genoux. And I found her bitter. And I hurt her. Berlin
Contemporary art exhibition, Group Exhibition, Eau de Cologne at Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles, USA Closed 28 June–20 August 2016 Group Exhibition Eau de Cologne Los Angeles
Contemporary art exhibition, Rosemarie Trockel, ROSEMARIE TROCKEL at Sprüth Magers, London, United Kingdom Closed 4 September–5 October 2013 Rosemarie Trockel London

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The Mystery of Malpica by Rosemarie Trockel contemporary artwork sculpture
Rosemarie Trockel The Mystery of Malpica, 1992 Wool, life belt, white-red, pink plexiglass box
100 x 100 x 25 cm
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59 Likes by Rosemarie Trockel contemporary artwork photography, print
Rosemarie Trockel 59 Likes, 2015/2021 Digital print on paper, plexi frame
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Happy Valentine by Rosemarie Trockel contemporary artwork painting
Rosemarie Trockel Happy Valentine, 2021 Oil on canvas
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White Hope by Rosemarie Trockel contemporary artwork painting
Rosemarie Trockel White Hope, 2021 Oil on canvas
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Challenge by Rosemarie Trockel contemporary artwork sculpture, ceramics
Rosemarie Trockel Challenge, 2020 Ceramic, sol-silicate-based paint
67 x 67 x 8 cm
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Lucky Lady by Rosemarie Trockel contemporary artwork sculpture, ceramics
Rosemarie Trockel Lucky Lady, 2017 Ceramics, slip trailing
60 x 60 x 20 cm
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Dry Milk (Mother's Invention) by Rosemarie Trockel contemporary artwork sculpture
Rosemarie Trockel Dry Milk (Mother's Invention), 2020 Ceramic, glazed
71 x 57 x 6 cm
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CLUSTER II - Prisoner of Yourself by Rosemarie Trockel contemporary artwork print
Rosemarie Trockel CLUSTER II - Prisoner of Yourself, 2015 19 digital prints on paper mounted on forex, framed
240 x 452 cm
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Rosemarie Trockel In Ocula Magazine

Collectors Open Their Homes for Singapore's IMPART Exhibition Ocula News Collectors Open Their Homes for Singapore's IMPART Exhibition Singapore, 19 January 2021

The online exhibition sheds light on ambitious collectors' myriad motives and methods for collecting and displaying contemporary art.

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Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Ocula Conversation Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo By Stephanie Bailey, Turin

Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Guarene and Turin, together with the Madrid Fundación, are creating a new constellation; mapping out a new geography that concretely embodies an idea of Europe based on reciprocity—between places, communities, fields of knowledge and cultures.

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A celebration of women who made it to the top of the art world Related Press A celebration of women who made it to the top of the art world 19 August 2016, Hyperallergic

The current show at Sprüth Magers gallery, Eau de Cologn e, has a title that might seem like a play on the words (that’s what I initially thought), but it is actually quite straightforwardly unironic. It is simply the name of the art magazine published by Monika Sprüth between 1985 and 1989 that presented interviews with and essays about...

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House of Voltaire brings luxe pop-up with a cause to Melbourne's Le Louvre Related Press House of Voltaire brings luxe pop-up with a cause to Melbourne's Le Louvre 19 July 2016, The Sydney Morning Herald

The House of Voltaire, the biennial art, design and fashion pop-up, usually has its digs in swanky Mayfair, London, but for the next eight days it has taken over one of Melbourne's most iconic shopfronts – the former Le Louvre boutique on Collins Street.

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Women, art and inequality in the gallery world: Sprüth Magers exhibition fuels an old debate Related Press Women, art and inequality in the gallery world: Sprüth Magers exhibition fuels an old debate 29 June 2016, The Los Angeles Times

The women are back — and they have something to say.   German feminists Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers, whose Sprüth Magers gallery expanded to Los Angeles in February, are revisiting the exhibition Eau de Cologne starting Tuesday in the Mid-Wilshire space. The five-woman show debuted in ’85 at Monika Sprüth...

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A show of over 100 women artists offers redress but no resolution Related Press A show of over 100 women artists offers redress but no resolution 24 January 2016, Hyperallergic

The exhibition of over 100 women artists currently on view at the Rubell Family Collection is difficult to review because the works do not all fit into the space and the decision was made to rotate them over the course of the show. The plan is to gradually replace some works with others, but because there doesn’t appear to be any overriding...

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