Rosemarie Trockel

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Rosemarie Trockel is a contemporary artist and professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, who is internationally known for her complex and sometimes highly controversial works, in which she deals with feminist themes as well as theories of sexuality.

• Born: 13 November 1952
• Place of birth: Schwerte, North Rhine-Westphalia
• Nationality: German
• Studied at: Cologne Art and Craft Schools
• Teachers: Werner Schriefers
• Era: Contemporary art

In addition to paintings and drawings, Rosemarie Trockel's work includes sculptures, objects, installations, and video works. Today, she is still best known for her knitted pictures from the 1980s, which consist of woolen threads that she attaches to fabric and with which she critically questions gender roles.

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Biography

Rosemarie Trockel was born in Schwerte on November 13, 1952. Although art played no role in her family, she began drawing at an early age. In 1971 she began studying to be a teacher at the Pädagogische Hochschule in Cologne until she decided to study painting at the Cologne Werkschulen with Werner Schriefers. The painter particularly appreciated the great collegiality as well as the open atmosphere at the school, which gave her plenty of room for artistic experimentation, she later explained.

With her friend and later gallery owner Monika Sprüth, she traveled several times to the United States, where she met artists such as Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger and Jenny Holzer. She made "womanhood" the subject of her art and expressed her criticism of the existing patriarchal art business.

Since her first solo exhibition in the 1980s, her works have also received a great deal of attention in the USA. She has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, among others. She made a name for herself in particular with her knitted pictures, with which she deliberately chose a medium that is connoted in society with "typical women's work" and through which she critically examines the attribution of gender roles.

In 1998 Trockel accepted a professorship at the renowned Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf. In 1995 she is appointed to the Academy of Arts (Visual Arts Section) and later as a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts. In addition, the artist is a founding member of the Cologne Academy of the Arts of the World.

She caused a sensation during documenta X in Kassel with her House for Pigs and People, which she realized with fellow artist Carsten Höller. In 1999, she became the first woman to participate in the Venice Biennale.

Trockel now lives in Cologne-Hahnwald. 

Exhibitions

• 18.11.2023 – 17.03.2024 The Milton and Sheila Fine Collection – Carnegie Museum of Art (CMOA), Pittsburg.
• 28.06.2023 – 04.03.2024 Fragment of an Infinite Discourse – Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus & Kunstbau, Munich.
• 08.06.2023 – 29.10.2023 Embossed And Tossed – Haus des Papieres, Berlin.
• 01.06.2023 – 29.07.2023 Pride and Pejudice, Art and Craft a Love Story – Universitätsgalerie im Heiligenkreuzer Hof, Vienna.
• 10.12.2022 – 18.06.2023 Rosemarie Trockel – Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK).
• 23.11.21 – 13.03.22 DIVERSITY UNITED – State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
• 18.09.21 – 30.01.22 CRIP TIME – MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt.
• 04.09.21 – 21.11.21 Die relative Vermessung der Welt. - Kunstsammlung Jena.
• 07.08.21 – 26.09.21 25 Jahre fiftyfifty. Benefiz-Ausstellung - NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf.
• 19.06.21 – 03.10. 21 MIRRORS AND WINDOWS - Sammlung PHILARA, Düsseldorf.
• 09.06.21 – 19.09.21 DIVERSITY UNITED - Flughafen Tempelhof Berlin.
• 29.05.21 – 22.11.21 Arcimboldo Face to Face - Centre Pompidou-Metz, Paris.
• 22.05.21 – 25.10.21 Anne Imhof - Natures Mortes - Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
• 17.01.21 – 02.05.21 FEMALE FAME - Erika Hock im Skulpturenmuseum - Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl.
• 08.11.20 – 21.02.21 Musterung - Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz / Museum Gunzenhauser.
• 31.10.20 – 05.04.21 IN ALLER MUNDE ... Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg.
• 28.09.20 – 29.08.21 Die Sonne um Mitternacht schauen. - Das Lenbachhaus, Munich.
• 20.08.20 – 19.08.22 John Dewey und die Neupräsentation der Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst im Museum Ludwig – Museum Ludwig Köln, Cologne.
• 01.08.20 – 01.07.22 KölnSkulptur #10 "ÜberNatur – Natural Takeover" – Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne.
• 07.02.20 – 02.08.20 Trauern - Von Verlust und Veränderung - Hamburger Kunsthalle.
• 28.11.19 – 30.08.20 Tell me about yesterday tomorrow - NS-Dokumentationszentrum München, Munich.
• 05.08.19 – 23.02.20 Homo Faber: Craft in Contemporary Sculpture - Asia Culture Center (ACC), Gwangju.
• 17.08.19 – 12.01.20 Ausstellung: "MUSEUM" - MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt.
• 01.08.19 – 31.12.19 Westkunst - Ostkunst. A Selection from the Collection - Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest.
• 30.05.19 – 25.08.19 MASK - The Art of Transformation - Kunstmuseum Bonn.
• 25.05.19 – 01.03.20 gestalten - ein Jahrhundert abstrakte Kunst im Westen - Kunsthaus NRW Kornelimünster, Aachen.
• 24.05.19 – 19.07.20 Forever Young - Museum Brandhorst, Munich.
• 13.04.19 – 28.07.19 Straying from the Line - Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin.
• 09.04.19 - 09.07.19 WER KANN DER SOLL - Kunstgruppe Kunstverein Köln, Cologne.
• 07.04.19 - 06.07.19 NICO - Institut für moderne Kunst Nürnberg.
• 17.03.19 – 15.05.19 New Order Art and Technology in the Twenty-First Century - MOMA - The Museum of Modern Art, New York City.
• 14.01.19 – 09.03.19 LAWS OF MOTION - Gagosian Gallery San Francisco.
• 29.09.18 – 17.03.19 - ROSEMARIE TROCKEL - Moderna Museet Malmö.

Awards

• 1985: ars viva Prize of the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft im BDI e.V., Berlin
• 1989: Karl Ströher Prize, Frankfurt am Main
• 1992: Konrad-von-Soest Prize of the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe
• 1998: State Prize of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
• 1999: International Art Prize Kulturstiftung Stadtsparkasse Munich
• 2004: Wolfgang-Hahn Prize of the Society for Modern Art at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne
• 2008: Art prize of Düsseldorf
• 2010: Peter Weiss Prize of the City of Bochum
• 2011: Goslarer Kaiserring
• 2011: Wolf-Prize
• 2014: Roswitha Haftmann-Prize

Literature

• Rosemarie Trockel - the same different, Iris Müller-Westermann (Publ.), London 2019.
• Strick im Wandel : Vom subversiven Potential in den Strickbildern Rosemarie Trockels zum Aktivismus der aktuellen Crafting-Bewegung, Christine Schöpf, Saarbrücken 2015.
• Rosemarie Trockel / with a text by Rolf Dieter Brinkmann. Documenta (13), Rosemarie Trockel, Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, Ostfildern 2012.

Collections

Germany

• Stuttgart - Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
• Bonn - Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
• Munich - Pinakothek der Moderne
• Cologne - Museum Ludwig Köln
• Duisburg - Museum Küppersmühle
• Jena - Kunstsammlung Jena              
• Düsseldorf - JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION DÜSSELDORF
• Hamburg - Hamburger Kunsthalle    
• Dresden - Deutsches Hygiene-Museum
• Frankfurt - DZ BANK Kunstsammlung
• Munich - Artothek München

England

• London -British Museum

France

• Paris - Centre Pompidou
• Dunkirk - FRAC Grand Large - Hauts-de-France

Austria

• Vienna - Belvedere

Weblinks

• Rosemarie Trockel Kunstaspekte Exhibition and collection overview.