Rosemarie Trockel - multi -layered artist with courage to criticize

We congratulate Rosemarie Trockel on the 60th birthday , which was celebrated on November 13th, 2012!

Rosemarie Trockel - these are, for example, beautiful sculptures and with living plants that can be visited in the German sculpture parks. However, many gardeners do not know these changeable and constantly changing sculptures. Some gardeners don't even know Rosemarie Trockel, who are in the “eternal ranking list” of the most famous artist database online under the first third of the 100 most sought -after artists in the world.

In the annual “bestseller lists” of art, Trockel has been quite high for several years, and in the relevant publications it is often classified as one of the most important artists in the world . An artist who can be found in front of Salvadore Dalí or Alberto Giacometti should actually be on everyone's lips, why isn't that?

Well, one reason for this is probably that Rosemarie Trockel shows no particular interest in increased media presence according to reports of her surroundings, it is generally described as rather reserved compared to public viewing. Another reason may be that your work is far too diverse and too imaginative to merchandize it, i.e. to generate and sell all possible by -products from your works.

Rosemarie Trockel was born in 1952 in the North Rhine-Westphalian Schwerte and grew up in Leverkusen-Opladen not far away, at that time still in a largely rural environment. The civil servant daughter with a mechanical engineer to the father was not continuously brought into contact with art by her family, but also without any “early artistic support”, Trockel began to draw early and intensely.

Before she devoted herself to art, however, the obedient daughter first completed a teacher study. At the age of 22, visiting the Cologne Werkkunstschule joined where it wrote to painting. For example, she learned from Werner Schriefers, who was a painter, but also a textile artist studied, maybe the basics of her idea are to create textile works of art.

Since its end in 1978, Trockel has tried many fields of art, she made pictures and drawings, created sculptures and sculptures and objects, designed photographs and prints and conceived installations and video work.

Shortly after completing her studies, she met the architect Monika Sprüth, who later became her gallery owner. The artist often accompanied them on her travels to the USA, where Trockel met artists such as Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger and Jenny Holzer.

The work of these women highly respected in art circles strengthened them in their own artistic ideas, in which z. For example, the role of women in society at that time was critically eyed, dried in her works, also formulated a very fundamental criticism of the existing art business .

Since their first solo exhibition in Cologne and Bonn in Cologne and Bonn, their works produced more and more enthusiasm, and drying -knotted images, in which they put some conventional female domain in a completely unfamiliar light and ironically questioned the importance of many common signets. Around the end of the 1980s, Trockel also became known in the United States, in 1988 it exhibited in the New York Museum of Modern Art and in 1991 in Chicago and Boston.

From this time it went up to date: In 1997 she built a “house for pigs and humans” on Documenta X in Kassel.

Here peaceful and happy pigs were combined with relaxed people, which not only made factory farming and killing appeared as a downright grotesque, but for everyone who wanted to think so far, in principle the current relationship from humans to animal questioned more than critically questioned, such a question caused a lot of sensation.

Rosemarie Trockel was the first woman to design the German pavilion alone on the Venice Biennale The list of artists represented there in the light of gender distribution illustrates very well how necessary Trockel's use for art creates women in male -dominated art business.

In 1998, Trockel was appointed professor to the Düsseldorf Art Academy. B. a work for the Cologne sculpture park and participation in the sculpture. Projects Münster 2007. In October 2011, Trockel was honored with the emperor's ring in the city of Goslar, since 2012 she has been a member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts North Rhine-Westphalia.

Trockel's art is rightly popular, it is imaginative , funny , not set to a material and repeatedly ironic . Your works are multi -layered and peppered with numerous allusions, and when there is talk of “aggressive irony against men's fantasies”, you should certainly see if the author is not a man. Because of the men (and sometimes also by women) who want to master art criticism, dryel is stubbornly put into the corner of feminism, although there is not much to read about this topic.

Undoubtedly, she is one of those who do not believe that women are less worth less than men, and of course drying considers it unjust when men get more money than women for the same work and believe that you have to fight against it. There will probably not be many people in our society who see it differently.

Apart from that, Trockel only wants to practice her job, i.e. create art. That is why she has always resisted the concept of "women's art", she doesn't like him at all if she is asked whether she has a female view of things, does she ask dry, which she should have?

Because that women have a different perception than men is a fact for them, and no question of emancipation. With her work, Rosemarie Trockel is a constant and highly vital request for all women who see it exactly in this way to take the threads into their own hands without being reduced to social criticism or feminism.

You can get a small overview of the artist's work through the website of the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt am Main

Rosemarie Trockel - a work show in New York

In addition, you can watch a number of your installations and works in the subsequent video on the retrospective of the New York Museum from 2012.

The exhibition " Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos" in the New Museum in New York presents the extensive and diverse work of the German artist Rosemarie Trockel. The German artist is known for work that deals with questions of sexuality, feminism and hierarchy of systems. "A cosmos" comprises all three main gallery floor of the new museum.

The show shows drawings, collages, installations, videos, furniture, installations, clothing and the famous "knitting pictures" by Rosemarie Trockel. For this retrospective, Rosemarie Trockel puts her work into the society of people who consider it as a soul mate. For example, Trockel's ceramics of the past few years are exhibited as well as Leopolds and Rudolph Blaschka's glass models of sea animals from the 19th century.