Pamela Rosary

Pamela Rosenkranz (born June 5, 1979 in Altdorf ) is a Swiss-German performance and object artist who also uses video to develop room-filling installations .

life and work

Rosenkranz grew up in Altdorf. After graduating from commercial high school, she attended the Bern University of the Arts , where she completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2004 and completed her art studies with a Master in Contemporary Arts Practice in 2010 . At the same time, she studied art history at the University of Bern and comparative literature at the University of Zurich (2005). The artist already received great international attention during her art studies. After a two-year studio grant from the Canton of Bern (from 2006), she presented works at Manifesta 7 and the Berlin Biennale in 2008 (curator Adam Szymczyk ).

From 2011 to 2012 she participated in the Independent Residency Program of the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. In 2015 Pamela Rosenkranz exhibited at the Venice Biennale in the Swiss pavilion, which she filled with, among other things, skin-colored liquid that corresponds to the standardized Central European skin tone. On this occasion, the Swiss Post issued a special stamp designed by the artist, which also shows a piece of skin.

In 2016 Pamela Rosenkranz won the Paul Boesch Prize, an annually awarded Swiss art prize.

Exhibitions

• 2008: Swiss Institute (SI), New York (also 2011 This Is Not My Color )
• 2008: Manifesta 7 - European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Trentino / South Tyrol; 5th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin
• 2010: Untouched by man , Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig
• 2012: Feeding, Fleeing, Fighting, Reproduction , Kunsthalle Basel
• 2013: The Encyclopedic Palace , 55th Venice Biennale - International Pavilion
• 2015: Our Product , 56th Venice Biennale - Swiss Pavilion

literature

• Gianni Jetzer and others (ed.): No Core , JRP Ringier Kunstverlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-03764301-3 . (English)
• Our Product , exhibition catalog Swiss Pavilion 56th Venice Biennale 2015, texts by Robin Mackay. Interview with Pamela Rosenkranz by Susanne Pfeffer, Walther König Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3960981015 (English)

Web links

• Literature by and about Pamela Rosenkranz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Pablo Müller: Rosenkranz, Pamela. In: Sikart (status: 2014)
• Daniele Muscionico: With bite and concept . In: Die Zeit from June 18, 2014
• Exhibition directory by Pamela Rosenkranz on Kunstaspekte.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Website of the exhibition Shifting Identities , Kunsthaus Zürich , 2008
2. ↑ Manifesta 7 website
3. ↑ Swiss Post website  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ^ Paul Boesch award ceremony. Retrieved October 21, 2017 . 
5. ^ Website Kunsthalle Basel