Martha Rosler

Martha Rosler (born July 29, 1943 in Brooklyn , New York ) is an American artist who uses video art , photography and photomontage , as well as performance and installation .

Life

Rosler received her Bachelor (BFA) from Brooklyn College , New York in 1965 and her Master of Fine Art (MFA) from the University of California at San Diego in 1974 . In 1985 she attended the Art Institute of Chicago as an artist residency . As early as 1975 she began writing reviews for artforum and other art magazines. Rosler is a member of the Association of Independent Film an Video and the Society for Photography . She teaches at the School of Arts at Rutgers University in New Brunswick , New Jersey . She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

In 2005 she received the SPECTRUM International Prize for Photography from the Lower Saxony Foundation , Hanover. In 2006 she was awarded the Kokoschka Prize , the highest award for visual artists in Austria, and in 2017 she received the Hamburg Lichtwark Prize .

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

• 2018 (together with Hito Steyerl ): Martha Rosler & Hito Steyerl. War Games. Kunstmuseum Basel , May 5, 2018 - January 20, 2019
• 2012: Meta Monumental Garage Sale , Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York City.
• 2005: Martha Rosler - If not now, when? Sprengel Museum , Hanover
• 2002: Odd weeks - Martha Rosler . Moderna Museet , Stockholm.
• 1999–2000: Martha Rosler - Positions in the Lifeworld , shown at the Generali Foundation (Vienna), at MACBA , Barcelona and at the New Museum of Contemporary Art , New York City.

Participation in exhibitions

• 2017/2018 Feminist avant-garde of the 1970s from the Verbund Collection, Vienna , Center for Art and Media , Karlsruhe; 2018/2019 Dům umění , Brno, Czech Republic
• 2014: Playtime , Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus , Munich, March 15 to June 29, 2014: Works Semiotics of the Kitchen (1975) and Flower Fields (1974)
• 2012: Serious Games. War Media Art, Mathildenhöhe Institute, Darmstadt
• 2007: WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution , Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
• 2007: Sculpture.Projects , Münster.
• 2007: documenta 12 , Kassel. The work Kassel Gardens was shown (from the perspective of a mole) .
• 2003: 50th Venice Biennale , Venice
• 2002: Kunsthalle Wien , Televisions - Art sees television
• 1998: Kunstverein in Hamburg , fast forward 2 "trade marks"
• 1982: documenta 7 , Kassel.

Web links

• Literature by and about Martha Rosler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Materials by and about Martha Rosler in the documenta archive
• Official website of Martha Rosler
• Martha Rosler on kunstaspekte.de
• Martha Rosler at Photography now, Berlin.
• Sculpture.Projects Münster, 2007

Individual evidence

1. ^ Lynne Warren: Encyclopedia of Twentieth-century Photography, CRC Press, 2006, ISBN 978-1579583934
2. ↑ Oskar Kokoschka Prize 2006 goes to Martha Rosler at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. (Accessed October 8, 2008)
3. ↑ US artist Martha Rosler receives Lichtwark Prize 2017 , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, August 10, 2017, accessed on August 10, 2017
4. ↑ Kunstmuseum Basel, 2018-2019: Martha Rosler & Hito Steyerl. War Games
5. ↑ The biggest Resterampe of New York in: FAZ of 24 November 2012 Page 31
6. ↑ Installation View ( Memento of the original from April 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the Sprengel Museum 2005 
7. ↑ Martha Rosler - Posicionamientos en el mundo real .
8. ^ Martha Rosler - Positions in the Lifeworld
9. ↑ ZKM website
10. ↑ Verbund art collection
11. ↑ WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution. (No longer available online.) The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), archived from the original on November 1, 2012 ; accessed on May 27, 2009 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
12. ↑ Claudia Bodin: The Naked Revolte . In: art The art magazine . Gruner & Jahr, Hamburg April 2, 2008 ( art-magazin.de [accessed November 14, 2010]). Die Nackte Revolte ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
13. ^ Documenta 12 , Kassel. June 16 - September 23, 2007. About the works by Martha Rosler shown on the official documenta site: Online (Accessed October 8, 2008; PDF file; 16 kB)