Rosemarie Trockel - Retrospective

Rosemarie Trockel (b. 1952 in Schwerte, Germany) is among the most famous German artists, as important as Sigmar Polke, Georg Baselitz or Gerhard Richter. Although when she started her career in the 1980s the art scene was dominated by men, the viewpoints of her older colleagues became the starting point and the object of criticism for this rising artist. Rosemarie Trockel‘s art is open and critical, committed to social and feminist ideas. However, her works appear to the viewer as conceptual constructions, full of imagination and expression, smooth and convincing works of art. The artist is able to render even the most complicated intellectual problems with slight irony, thus avoiding heavy, dogmatic oppositions. According to her critics, while working, she is able to make one step away from herself and look at the creating woman with all the clichés permeating the atmosphere of the times and visible from outside. At the same time her art is an example of well developed craft.. In her works, a woman creating the image of nature remains a better or worse hidden pretext for irony and questioning of culture. While developing her work into diverse directions and using various means simultaneously, Rosemarie Trockel keeps following the same line of issues and, in some works, she as if finds answers to the questions she raises, in others she questions her own former statements, thus not staying in her permanent doubt, but going deep into the situation around her.

In the Lithuanian context the exhibition of this artist‘s work does not only fill one more gap in the visual education in art history, but also approaches a very important parallel to the art processes in Lithuania during the last decades by contrasting to them and indicating common points of their issues.

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Rosemarie Trockel - Retrospective
Kurator: Ursula Zeller