Pamela Rosenkranz

Pamela Rosenkranz
Born 1979
Uri, Switzerland
Nationality Swiss
Known for Conceptual art, installation art

Pamela Rosenkranz was born in Uri, Switzerland in 1979.[1] She is a multimedia artist who uses light and liquid to demonstrate her concepts along with performance, sculpture, painting, and installation art. Her work explores ideas and concepts of what it means to be human, its ideologies, emptiness and meaninglessness, as well as globalization and consumerism.[1]

Work and Life

Rosenkranz graduated from the University of Zurich in 2005, and received her MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts, Bern, in 2010. Rosenkranz's aesthetic choices are often informed by her extensive research into fields ranging from marketing and medicine to philosophy and religion. Her use of use of glass, plastic water bottles, and liquid reflecting surfaces stems from her interest in physicality as evident in the artwork Open Source: Art at the Eclipse of Capitalism (2015). Shiny, reflective surfaces provide a way for Rosenkranz's work to establish physicality, and interact with their environments. The biological and medical implications of light are of importance to the artist, as light affects the human body. Water as a medium connotes purity and detoxification, however, more accurately the plastic bottles that deliver water harbor bacteria and colonies of hormones.[1]

Having collaborated with Robin Mackay and Reza Negarestani, Rosenkranz's work is often framed in relation to Speculative Realism.[2]

Exhibitions

In 2015, Rosenkranz represented Switzerland at the Venice Biennale.[2] While still a student at the Academy in Bern in 2008, Rosenkranz participated in both the 5th Berlin Biennale and Manifesta 7, in Trentino, Italy. The same year she graduated with a master's degree, 2010, Rosenkranz exhibited solo at Centre d’Art Contemporain Geneve, and at Germany’s Kunstverein Braunschweig. In 2017, she exhibited Slight Agitation 2/4: Pamela Rosenkranz at Fondazione Prada, Milan.[2] She is represented by Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York.[3]

Bibliography

  • Rosenkranz, Pamela (2012). No Core. Zurich: JRP Ringier. ISBN 9783037643013.
  • Rosenkranz, Pamela (2010). Our sun. Milan: Mousse Publishing. ISBN 9788896501061.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Pamela Rosenkranz - Biography, Exhibitions, and Available Art on ARTUNER". ARTUNER | Curated Contemporary Art. Retrieved 2018-03-04.
  2. 1 2 3 Rosenmeyer, Aoife (January 2015). "IN THE STUDIO: PAMELA ROSENKRANZ". Art in America. 103: 76–83 – via EBSCOhost.
  3. ↑ "Pamela Rosenkranz - Miguel Abreu Gallery". Miguel Abreu Gallery. Retrieved 2018-03-08.
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