Tracey Rose

Tracey Rose (* 1974 in Durban ) is a South African artist who works with performance , video installations and photography . Rose lives and works in Johannesburg .

biography

Tracey Rose was born in Durban in 1974. She studied fine arts at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1996 . In 2001 Rose was artist in residence at the South African National Gallery in Cape Town ; During this time she created, among other things, the work with which she was represented at the 49th Biennale di Venezia in 2001, curated by Harald Szeemann . In the United States , Rose is represented by The Project gallery . Rose teaches at the Vaal Triangle Technikon Institute in Vanderbijl Park, as well as at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa.

Work and way of working

Rose's work addresses the dogmatic limitations as well as the weaknesses and deficiencies of the institutionalized cultural discourse. Throughout them, their emphasis on the confrontation with identity politics , especially with regard to the issues of race and gender , becomes clear.

According to Jan Avgikos, "the smooth reference to the performance art of the 1960s and 1970s is a big part of the fascination of Tracey Rose's work".

Sue Williamson on the artist: Tracey Rose is not someone who jumps for every opportunity to exhibit and has become known for having withdrawn from more than one exhibition project when the circumstances didn't seem right to her. "

Rose's work has been shown in many countries in Africa , Europe and the United States.

Her latest solo exhibitions include:

• "The Cockpit", MC, Los Angeles, USA (2008)
• "Plantation Lullabies", Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa (2008)

Group exhibitions Rose participated in in 2007 include:

• "El mirall sud-africà", Center De Cultura Contemporània De Barcelona, ​​Spain
• "Mouth Open, Teeth Showing: Major Works from the True Collection", Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, USA
• "Memories of Modernity", Malmö, Sweden
• "Check List: Luanda Pop", African Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale, Italy
• "Heterotopias", Thessaloniki Biennale, Greece
• "Global Feminisms", Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art in Brooklyn, New York, USA

Work (selection)

The Thinker , Fundstücke und Text, 1996. Small-format reproduction of the sculpture The Thinker by Auguste Rodin , used as a weapon in a family dispute.

Span I and Span II , 1997. The work was shown at the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale (1997) as part of the Graft exhibition , curated by Colin Richards, and at the 2000 Dakar Biennale.

Ongetiteld (Untitled) . Video from a surveillance camera showing the artist shaving off all of her body hair. The work was shown in 1998 as part of the exhibition Democracys Images at the Umeå Bildmuseet in Umeå , Sweden .

TKO , 2000.

Ciao Bella , 2001. A work created for the 49th Venice Biennale.

Lucie's Fur Version 1: 1: 1 - La Messie , 2003, Lambda Photographie, 148 × 102 cm.

Solo exhibitions

1999

• The Project, New York, USA

2000

• The Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
• The Project, New York, USA

2002

• Ciao Bella , The Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
• The Project, New York, USA

2004

• The Project, New York City, USA
• The Thieveing ​​Fuck and the Intagalactic Lay , The Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

2007

• The Project, New York, USA

2008

• Plantation Lullabies , The Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
• The Cockpit , MC Art, Los Angeles, USA

2009

• Raison d'être , Espace doual'art, Douala, Cameroon

Group exhibitions

2017

• documenta 14 , Kassel

literature

• Sue Williamson, A feature on an artist in the public eye: Tracey Rose in "Artthrob", n. 43, March 2001.
• Jan Avgikos, The Project - Reviews - Tracey Rose in "Art Forum", October 2002.
• Tracey Rose: Fresh , edited by Kellie Jones and Emma Bedford, South African National Gallery, 2003.
• Emma Bedford, Tracey Rose in 10 years 100 artists: art in a democratic South Africa , ed.Sophie Perryer, Struik, 2004.
• Tracey Murinik, Tracey Rose: plasticienne , Les Carnets de la création, Carnets de la création: Afrique du sud, Éditions de l'Oeil, Paris, 2005.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Profile of the artist on Artfacts
2. ↑ in Art of Africa: The 50 best African artists
3. ↑ The Project - Reviews - Tracey Rose - in Art Forum , 2002 ( Memento from July 17, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
4. ↑ in Artthrob , No. 43, 2001
5. ↑ in Exhibitions - Tracy Rose: The Cockpit  ( 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.  
6. ↑ in Plantation Lullabies  ( 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.  
7. ↑ in "Artthrob", No. 43, 2001
8. ↑ in "Art South Africa", No. 2.4, 2004.
9. ↑ in The New York Times , 05/31/2002

Web links

• Homepage of the artist
• on Artthrob
• Article in Artforum 2002
• Article on Deutschlandradio Kultur
• on Artnet
• Article on Chimurenga
• Info on African Success