Ulrike Rosenbach – Trough ages. Between Body and Mind

20 Apr 2023 — 31 Oct 2023
Ulrike Rosenbach, Art is a criminal Action (mittelalterliche Variation), 1971/2022, kolorierte Fotomontage, Ladedruck auf Canvas, 175 x 103 cm
Ulrike Rosenbach, Art is a criminal Action (mittelalterliche Variation), 1971/2022, kolorierte Fotomontage, Latexdruck auf Canvas, 175 x 103 cm; Courtesy Galerie Gisela Clement, Bonn

The exhibition takes Ulrike Rosenbach's 80th birthday as an occasion to honor the artist and her visionary life's work. The exhibition focuses in particular on the consistent and continuous development of central and overarching concepts that can be traced in the artist's work from the 1970s to the present day. Themes such as transience and the return to pre-industrial pictorial themes will take center stage and unite central works from Ulrike Rosenbach's oeuvre.

As a pioneer of media art, the artist has created a multi-layered oeuvre in the combination of video, performance and sculpture, which, starting with the radical feminist demands in the 1970s to the confrontation with complex themes such as death and transience, is constantly facing new challenges. By revisiting and transferring historical installation into current technology, Ulrike Rosenbach will bring these themes into the present time and develop new works.