Rosemarie Trockel

Rosemarie Trockel (born November 13, 1952 in Schwerte ) is a German visual artist and professor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy .

Life

Trockel was born as the middle of three daughters of a mechanical engineer and his wife and grew up in a rural area in Leverkusen-Opladen . Trockel began to draw intensively at an early age, although she and her family did not visit exhibitions or museums.

Less Sauvage than Others ( 2006) - Skulptur.Projekte Münster 2007

In 1971 she began studying to be a teacher at the University of Education in Cologne, specializing in anthropology , sociology, theology and mathematics. From 1974 to 1978 Trockel studied at the Cologne factory schools (department of art and design of the Cologne University of Applied Sciences ) with Werner Schriefers painting . She appreciated the adventurous atmosphere and the collegiality at the school and made her first Super 8 films , including a film called Don't be a child of sadness . In 1980 she became friends with the urban planner Monika Sprüth , with whom she traveled to the USA. She got to know the artists Jenny Holzer , Barbara Kruger and Cindy Sherman , whose work strengthened her in her own artistic concept: she made "womanhood" the theme of her art and formulated a fundamental criticism of the existing art business. Monika Sprüth became her gallery owner.

Her diverse artistic work includes pictures and drawings, sculptures, sculptures and objects as well as video works and installations. Her work can neither be tied to an iconography nor to a specific art theory.

Trockel lives in Cologne-Hahnwald .

Offices and memberships

Rosemarie Trockel has been a professor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy since 1998. In 2012 she was appointed as a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts . Since October 2012, Trockel has been a founding member of the Academy of the Arts in Cologne. In 1995 she became a member of the Berlin Academy of Arts , Fine Arts section.

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For the 2008/2009 season in the Vienna State Opera she designed a huge large picture (176 m²) as part of the “Iron Curtain” exhibition series conceived by museum in progress . In the art compass , a "world ranking of living artists" compiled annually by Manager Magazin (before 2008 in Capital), Rosemarie Trockel took third place in 2013 and fourth place in 2019.

Exhibitions

Since her first solo exhibition in Cologne and Bonn in 1982, her works have received great attention, especially in the USA, in the late 1980s. In 1988 she exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York , in 1991 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston .

Her work was also known in Europe through numerous exhibitions: in 1988 she took part in the Made in Cologne exhibition . In 1997 she caused a sensation during the documenta X in Kassel with her house for pigs and people , which she built with her artist friend Carsten Höller . In 1999 she took part (as the first woman) in the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale and in 2007 in Skulptur.Projekte Münster. One of her works can be seen in the sculpture park in Cologne . Other works by Trockel were presented from May 25 to August 28, 2000 in the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus Munich in the exhibition Rosemarie Trockel - Sculptures, Videos, Drawings .

In 2015 she announced that her exhibition Märzôschnee ûnd Wiebôrweh sand at Môargô niana me in the Kunsthaus Bregenz would be her last for seven years.

Publications

• with Marcus Steinweg : Duras , Merve, Berlin, 2008, ISBN 978-3-88396-230-6 .

literature

• Gudrun Inboden , Rosemarie Trockel , in: 48th La Biennale di Venezia, p. 56 ff., 1999, ISBN 88-2080414-X .

Awards (selection)

• 1985 ars viva award of the cultural group of the German economy in the BDI eV , Berlin
• 1989 Karl Ströher Prize , Frankfurt am Main
• 1992 Konrad von Soest Prize from the Westphalia-Lippe Regional Association
• 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 the State Capital Düsseldorf
• 2010 Peter Weiss Prize of the City of Bochum
• 2011 Goslarer Kaiserring
• 2011 Wolf Prize
• 2014 Roswitha Haftmann Prize

Public collections

• Art Museum Basel
• Museum Kunstpalast , Düsseldorf (Hanck Collection)
• Museum of Modern Art , Frankfurt am Main
• Pinakothek der Moderne , Munich (Stoffel Collection)
• EVN collection

Web links

• Literature by and about Rosemarie Trockel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Materials by and about Rosemarie Trockel in the documenta archive
• Detailed artist biography with exhibitions, bibliography and prices (IFA database)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Barbara Zürcher, Living Means I Tried Everything , in: Du , April 2002 edition, Du Kulturmedien AG, Rapperswil, p. 33, ISBN 3-908515-61-0
2. ↑ Alice Koegel, Trockel's famous mesh , in: EMMA issue 1/2006
3. ↑ Cologne review of May 3, 2016: Villa by Rosemarie Trockel. Double-digit million damage after fire in Cologne-Hahnwald , by Daniel Taab and Jens Meifert , accessed on November 13, 2017
4. ↑ New members of the NRW Academy appointed ( Memento of the original from May 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Message on the website of Westdeutscher Rundkfunk from May 16, 2012 
5. ↑ Homepage Akademie der Künste der Welt Cologne ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 30, 2012 
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7. ↑ SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg Germany: Photo series - Image 4 - The ten most important artists. Retrieved October 23, 2019 . 
8. ↑ with the two video installations Untitled (Sleeping Pills) and Untitled (Playground)
9. ↑ Irene Netta, Ursula Keltz: 75 years of the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich . Ed .: Helmut Friedel. Self-published by the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-88645-157-7 , p. 246 .
10. ↑ Press material and photos for the exhibition , accessed on February 23, 2015.
11. ↑ Catrin Lorch: The huntress. Rosemarie Trockel is leaving. She is considered a feminist artist, but that does not do justice to her rank. , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , No. 40, February 18, 2015, ISSN  0174-4917 , p. 10.
12. ↑ Kulturkreis.eu: Well-known ars viva award winners / 1985 Rosemarie Trockel ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on August 13, 2015)