Rosemarie Trockel

Since the 1980s Rosemarie Trockel has created an oeuvre of international standing. While her work has received extensive recognition in the United States (with shows in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston), she has yet to have a retrospective exhibition in Europe. Rosemarie Trockel works in a wide range of artistic genres and media. In exhibitions she combines her pictures, drawings and small sculptures with objects, larger pieces, installations and videos to create extensive compositions. For the Galerie der Gegenwart Trockel has developed a work in several parts which is to be permanently installed in the museum.

Rosemarie Trockel has planned this exhibition specifically for the rooms on one floor of the Galerie der Gegenwart. Divided into eight sections, it will allow visitors to explore the predominant themes and media in the artist´s work to date: wool, Brigitte Bardot, video, hen-house project, family portraits, drawings, lovers´ project and new work.

The exhibition, which has been initiated by the Hamburger Kunsthalle, will subsequently be shown in London (Whitechapel Art Gallery), Stuttgart (Staatsgalerie) and Marseiilles (Musée de Marseille). It will be accompanied by an approximately 120- page catalogue, which like the exhibition is divided into eight chapters and includes texts by Uwe M. Schneede, Gudrun Inboden, Corinne Diserens, Catherine Lampert, Yilmaz Dziewior, Wilfried W. Dickhoff, Sebastian Egenhofer and Melitta Kliege.

Born in 1952 in Schwerte, Rosemarie Trockel now lives in Cologne, where she received her first solo exhibition in 1982. Since then she has participated in numerous exhibitions in Germany and abroad. In 1997 she took part in the documenta X in Kassel, where she contributed a joint work with Carsten Höller.