Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, LB
Pamela Rosenkranz
Lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland
1979 Born in Uri, Switzerland
Education
2012 Rijksakademie, independent Residency Program, Amsterdam, NL
2010 MFA Academy of Fine Arts, Bern, CH
2005 Department of Comparative Literature, University of Zurich, CH
2004 MBA, Academy of Fine Arts, Bern, CH
Museum and Public Collections
Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE
Ishikawa Foundation, JPN
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, NO
Berezdivin Collection / Espacio 1414, Santurce, PR
Boros Collection, Berlin, DE
Centre Georges-Pompidou, Berlin, DE
Fiorucci Art Trust, London, UK
Foundation Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, IT
François Pinault Foundation, Venice, IT
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, IL
K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong, HK
Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, DE
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, LI
Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun, CH
Kunsthaus Glarus, CH
Kunsthaus Zürich, CH
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebaek, DK
Palazzo Ruspoli, Fondazione Memmo, Rome, IT
Pye Foundation, Hong Kong, HK
Ricola Collection, Laufen, CH
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, USA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, CH
Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL, USA
Sammlung Ricola, Lefen, CH
Silvie Fleming Collection, London, UK
The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, IL, USA
Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
Lectures, talks & workshops
2018 Artist Talk at Verbier Art Summit, Verbier, CH
2018 Dubai Art Fair, UAE
2017 Artist Lecture, Jourfixe, Kunstakademie München, DE
2016 Conference: ‘Aesthetic Activism’, Yale School of Architecture, New Haven, USA
2013 Artist Lecture, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, NL
2014 Conference: ‘Speculations’ between Art, Research and Capital. With Robin Mackay, Kunsthalle Zurich, CH
2014 Artist Lecture, Henry Art Gallery, The University of Washington, Seattle, USA
2012 Human Surface Skin. With Robin Mackay and John Hunt, Liverpool Biennial, UK
2010 Artist Talk on occasion of the next exhibition ‘Un Idée, unr forme, un Etre – Poésie/Politique du corporel’. With Raphael Gygax, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, CH
dec 21 2018 - mar 21 2019 | Alien Blue Light | Kreuzgang Fraumünster,
Zürich |
jun 01 - jul 15 2018 | Amazon Spirits | Karma International,
Zurich, CH |
may 06 - jul 30 2017 | Alien Culture | GAMeC,
Bergamo, IT |
apr 29 - jun 17 2017 | SHE HAS NO MOUTH | Sprüth Magers Berlin |
apr 28 2017 | (No Title) | Boros Collection,
Berlin |
apr 01 2017 | Künstlerräume, Artist's Space | K21,
Düsseldorf |
feb 08 - may 14 2017 | Slight Agitation 2/4 | Cisterna, Fondazione Prada, Milano |
jun 20 - jun 25 2016 | Blue Runs | Installation, Art Basel Unlimited |
may 09 - nov 22 2015 | ‘Our Product’ | Swiss Pavilion, 56th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale,
Venice |
jun 14 - jul 26 2014 | ‘My Sexuality’ | Karma International,
Zurich |
sep 18 - sep 22 2013 | ‘Content’ | Vault,
Berlin |
sep 23 - nov 11 2012 | ‘Feeding, Fleeing, Fighting, Reproduction’ | Kunsthalle Basel,
Basel |
dec 04 2010 - feb 20 2011 | ‘Untouched by Man’ | Kunstverein Braunschweig,
Braunschweig |
apr 17 - may 29 2010 | ‘The Most Important Body of Water is Yours’ | Karma International,
Zurich |
mar 27 - may 16 2010 | ‘No Core’ | Centre d’ Art Contemporain,
Geneva |
oct 29 2009 - apr 06 2010 | ‘Our Sun’ | Swiss Institute,
Venice |
jun 10 - jun 14 2009 | Art|40|Basel - Art Statements | Karma International,
Zurich |
feb 15 2009 | ‘High Purity’ | Atelier Amden,
Amden |
oct 04 - oct 05 2008 | ‘Unfade’ | Nuit Blanche, Centre Culturel Suisse,
Paris |
jun 03 - aug 19 2007 | ‘Pamela Rosenkranz’ | Projektraum Enter, Kunstmuseum Thun,
Thun |
nov 16 - dec 16 2005 | Test | Store,
London |
sep 27 - nov 24 2019 | Okayama Art Summit 2019 | A.o., Pamela Rosenkranz | Okayama Art Summit 2019 |
aug 21 2019 - jan 01 2020 | Michael Jackson: On the Wall | A.o., Pamela Rosenkranz | EMMA - Espoo Museum of Modern Art,
Espoo |
jun 28 - dec 01 2019 | The Coming World: Ecology as the New Politics 2030 - 2100 | A.o., Pamela Rosenkranz | Garage Museum of Contemporary Art,
Moscow |
jun 21 - oct 20 2019 | Futures of Love | A.o., Pamela Rosenkranz | Magasins généraux,
Paris-Pantin |
mar 22 - jul 14 2019 | Michael Jackson: On the Wall | A.o., Pamela Rosenkranz | Bundeskunsthalle,
Bonn |
mar 07 - jun 08 2019 | Leaving the Echo Chamber | A.o., Pamela Rosenkranz | Sharjah Biennale 14,
Sharjah |
feb 18 - apr 15 2019 | La Fabrique du Vivant | A.o., Pamela Rosenkranz | Centre Georges-Pompidou,
Paris |
feb 15 - apr 28 2019 | Performing Society: The Violence of Gender | A.o., Pamela Rosenkranz | Tai Kwun Contemporary,
Hong Kong |
sep 09 2018 - mar 17 2019 | How To See [What Isn't There] | A.o., Pamela Rosenkranz | Langen Foundation,
Neuss |
may 06 - aug 19 2018 | Pamela Rosenkranz | A.o., Pamela Rosenkranz | Witte de With,
Rotterdam |
feb 10 - may 06 2018 | CRASH TEST: The Molecular Turn | A.o., Pamela Rosenkranz | La Panacée,
Montpellier |
feb 09 - may 21 2018 | Reservoir Moderne | A.o., Pamela Rosenkranz | Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein,
Liechtenstein |
feb 07 - may 20 2018 | Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today | A.o., Pamela Rosenkranz | ICA Boston,
Boston, USA |
feb 02 - may 06 2018 | Converter | A.o., Pamela Rosenkranz | Kunstmuseum St. Gallen,
St. Gallen |
- 2018 | Expanding Narratives: The Figure and the Ground | A.o., Pamela Rosenkranz | Smart Museum of Art,
Chicago |
- 2018 | The Marvellous Cacphony | A.o., Pamela Rosenkranz | Belgrade Biennial,
Belgrade, SRB |
- 2018 | A TIME CAPSULE REVISITED: A New Installation of Works Made by Women for Parkett’, 1984 - 2017 | A.o., Pamela Rosenkranz | Parkett, Löwenbräu,
Zurich |
oct 19 2017 - jan 07 2018 | We Just Fit, You and I | A.o., Pamela Rosenkranz | Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts,
Cambridge, USA |
oct 10 2017 - feb 25 2018 | Being There | A.o., Pamela Rosenkranz | Louisiana Museum of Modern Art,
Denmark |
sep 01 - nov 19 2017 | Edel verflüchtigt | A.o., Pamela Rosenkranz | Kunsthalle Mainz,
Mainz, Germany |
jun 07 - aug 20 2017 | Rest in the Furrows of My Skin | A.o., Pamela Rosenkranz | Kunsthaus Hamburg |
apr 08 2017 | The Garden | A.o., Pamela Rosenkranz | ARoS Museum of Modern Art, Aarhus |
nov 03 2016 - apr 30 2017 | Wirikuta (Mexican Time-Slip) | A.o., Pamela Rosenkranz | Museo Espacio, Aguascalientes, Mexico |
jun 11 - oct 02 2016 | ‘Triennale Kleinplastik’ | Pamela Rosenkranz | Fellbach |
mar 10 - may 29 2016 | ‘ICH’ | John Bock, George Condo, Robert Morris, Pamela Rosenkranz, Rosemarie Trockel | Schirn Kunsthalle,
Frankfurt |
jan 29 - apr 02 2016 | DREAMING MIRRORS DREAMING SCREENS | Theodora Allen, Slater Bradley, Lucy Dodd, Lizzie Fitch / Ryan Trecartin, Andy Hope 1930, Oliver Laric, Jon Rafman, Pamela Rosenkranz, Lesley Vance, Sara VanDerBeek, Stan VanDerBeek, Andro Wekua | Sprüth Magers Berlin |
dec 02 2015 - may 28 2016 | ‘No Man’s Land’ | Thea Djordjadze, Jenny Holzer, Karen Kilimnik, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Pamela Rosenkranz, Analia Saban, Cindy Sherman, Rosemarie Trockel | Rubell Family Collection, Miami |
oct 08 2015 - jan 30 2016 | ‘Co-Workers: Beyond Disaster’ | Pamela Rosenkranz | Bétonsalon,
Paris |
aug 20 - oct 03 2015 | ‘Double Take’ | Pamela Rosenkranz | Nature Morte,
New Delhi |
jul 05 - sep 20 2015 | ‘Being Thing’ | Pamela Rosenkranz, Sterling Ruby | Treignac Projet,
Treignac |
may 09 - may 31 2015 | ‘Life. Within Such Limits’ | Pamela Rosenkranz | Carl Kostyál,
Stockholm |
apr 30 - aug 16 2015 | ‘Between Discovery and Invention: 20 Years of Collecting’ | Pamela Rosenkranz | Zabludowicz Collection,
London |
apr 21 - aug 16 2015 | ‘Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection’ | Andreas Gursky, Gary Hume, Pamela Rosenkranz, Cindy Sherman, Ryan Trecartin, Andro Wekua | Astrup Fearnley Museet,
Oslo |
mar 29 - jun 14 2015 | ‘Inhuman’ | Pamela Rosenkranz | Fridericianum,
Kassel |
- 2015 | New Skin | A.o., Pamela Rosenkranz | Aïshti Foundation,
Beirut, LB |
nov 28 2014 - mar 01 2015 | ‘Picture Ballot!: Monolithic Water’ | Pamela Rosenkranz | Kunsthaus Zurich,
Zurich |
oct 29 2014 - feb 01 2015 | ‘Beware Wet Paint’ | Pamela Rosenkranz | Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo,
Turin |
oct 01 2014 - jan 11 2015 | ‘Blue Times’ | Pamela Rosenkranz | Kunsthalle Wien,
Vienna |
sep 24 - nov 16 2014 | ‘Beware Wet Paint’ | A.o., David Ostrowski, Pamela Rosenkranz | ICA,
London |
sep 21 - dec 07 2014 | ‘PINK – Colleczione Giancarlo e Danna Olgiati’ | Pamela Rosenkranz | Spazio -1,
Lugano |
sep 18 2014 - feb 01 2015 | ‘Europe Europe’ | Pamela Rosenkranz | Astrup Fearnley Museet,
Oslo |
sep 13 2014 - jan 04 2015 | ‘The Great Acceleration’ | Pamela Rosenkranz | Taipei Biennial 2014,
Taipei |
aug 30 - nov 09 2014 | ‘Collection on Display’ | Pamela Rosenkranz | Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst,
Zürich |
jul 19 - oct 05 2014 | ‘The Prize of the Böttcherstraße in Bremen 2014’ | Pamela Rosenkranz | Kunsthalle Bremen,
Bremen |
may 16 - jun 21 2014 | ‘Attention Economy’ | Pamela Rosenkranz | Kunsthalle Wien,
Vienna |
apr 05 - may 21 2014 | Brands - Concept/Affect/Modularity’ | Pamela Rosenkranz | SALTS,
Birsfelden |
feb 26 - mar 31 2014 | Marrakech Biennale | Pamela Rosenkranz | Marrakech Biennale, 5th Edition,
Marrakech |
feb 02 - mar 08 2014 | ‘The Granite Block’ | Pamela Rosenkranz | Overduin & Co,
Los Angeles |
jan 27 - mar 08 2014 | Between heaven and hell | Peter fischli david Weiss, Sylvie Fleury, Pamela Rosenkranz | Elevation 1049,
Gstaad |
sep 29 2013 - jan 26 2014 | ‘Speculations on Anonymous Materials’ | Pamela Rosenkranz | Fridericianum,
Kassel |
sep 19 - nov 03 2013 | ‘Descartes’ Daughter’ | Hanne Darboven Estate, Pamela Rosenkranz | Swiss Institute,
New York |
jun 01 - nov 24 2013 | ‘The Encyclopedic Palace’ | Pamela Rosenkranz | 55th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale,
Venice |
may 18 - nov 10 2013 | ‘Think First, Shoot Later: Photography from the MCA Collection’ | Andreas Gursky, Pamela Rosenkranz, Thomas Ruff, Cindy Sherman | Museum of Contemporary Art,
Chicago |
may 12 - sep 02 2013 | 'EXPO1: New York’ | Pamela Rosenkranz | MoMA PS1,
New York |
mar 29 - may 04 2013 | ‘HMV’ | Pamela Rosenkranz | Foxy Production,
New York |
mar 07 - may 05 2013 | ‘Chat Jet: Painting ‹Beyond›The Medium’ | Pamela Rosenkranz | Künstlerhaus,
Graz |
- 2013 | Collection on Display | A.o., Pamela Rosenkranz | Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst,
Zürich, CH |
oct 19 2012 - jan 06 2013 | ‘In the Holocene’ | John Baldessari, Alighiero Boetti, Hanne Darboven Estate, Thea Djordjadze, Pamela Rosenkranz | MIT List Visual Arts Center,
Cambridge |
sep 15 - nov 26 2012 | ‘A Disagreeable Object’ | Pamela Rosenkranz | Sculpture Center,
New York |
sep 15 - nov 25 2012 | Liverpool Biennial 2012 | Pamela Rosenkranz | Liverpool Biennial 2012,
Liverpool |
sep 13 - dec 01 2012 | ‘When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes’ | Pamela Rosenkranz | CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts,
San Francisco |
jul 14 - aug 18 2012 | ‘Ghosts Before Breakfast’ | Stephen Prina, Pamela Rosenkranz | White Flag Project,
Saint Louis |
sep 23 - apr 12 2011 | ‘He Disappeared Into Complete Silence - rereading a single artwork by Louise Burgeois’ | Alighiero Boetti, Pamela Rosenkranz | De Hallen Haarlem,
Haarlem |
sep 15 - oct 30 2011 | ‘This Is Not My Color / The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People’ | Nikolas Gambaroff, Pamela Rosenkranz | Swiss Institute
New York |
jun 12 - sep 21 2011 | ‘How to Work (More For) Less’ | Pamela Rosenkranz | Kunsthalle Basel,
Basel |
apr 09 - may 28 2011 | ‘Posta Restante’ | Pamela Rosenkranz | Artspeak,
Vancouver |
apr 02 - apr 21 2011 | ‘The Swamp Thing’ | Pamela Rosenkranz | Outpost,
Norwich |
- 2011 | Open Studio Days | A.o., Pamela Rosenkranz | Rijsakademie,
Amsterdam, NL |
- 2011 | The Real Thing | A.o., Pamela Rosenkranz | Tate Britain,
London, UK |
nov 19 2010 - feb 27 2011 | ‘Big Minis, Fetishes of Crisis’ | Pamela Rosenkranz, Ed Ruscha | Musée d'Art Contemporain,
Bordeaux |
sep 25 - nov 28 2010 | ‘Une Idée, une Forme, un Être - Poésie/Politique du corporel’ | Pamela Rosenkranz | Migrosmuseum für Gegenwartskunst,
Zurich |
sep 21 2010 - jan 09 2011 | ‘Exhibition, Exhibition’ | Alighiero E boetti, Louise Lawler, Pamela Rosenkranz | Castello di Rivoli,
Turin |
jul 21 - sep 11 2010 | ‘An Unpardonable Sin’ | Pamela Rosenkranz | Castillo/Corrales,
Paris |
may 16 - sep 15 2010 | ‘Of Objects, Fields and Mirrors’ | Pamela Rosenkranz | Kunsthaus Glarus,
Glarus |
mar 26 - may 01 2010 | ‘Gruppenausstellung BINZ39’ | Pamela Rosenkranz | Stiftung Binz 39,
Zurich |
feb 24 - jun 13 2010 | ‘The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place’ | Andreas Gursky, Louise Lawler, Pamela Rosenkranz, Thomas Scheibitz, Cindy Sherman | Zabludowicz Collection,
London |
feb 06 - mar 06 2010 | ‘Quick brown Fox and lazy Dog’ | Pamela Rosenkranz | Karma International,
Zurich |
feb 06 - apr 01 2010 | ‘Fax & Move on Asia’ | Pamela Rosenkranz | Para/Site Art Space,
Hong Kong |
2010 | ‘Collection on Display’ | Pamela Rosenkranz | Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst,
Zürich |
jul 24 - sep 01 2009 | Arguments and Compliments’ | Pamela Rosenkranz | New Jersey,
Basel |
jul 03 - sep 23 2009 | ‘Reduction and Suspense’ | Pamela Rosenkranz, Rosemarie Trockel | Kunstverein Bregenz,
Bregenz |
apr 17 - jul 23 2009 | ‘Fax’ | Pamela Rosenkranz | The Drawing Center,
New York |
apr 10 - may 24 2009 | ‘Shifting Identities - (Swiss) Art Now’ | Pamela Rosenkranz, Andro Wekua | CAC,
Vilnius |
mar 05 - apr 11 2009 | ‘Prose pour Des Esseintes’ | Thea Djordjadze, Pamela Rosenkranz | Karma International,
Zurich |
dec 19 2008 - feb 15 2009 | ‘Blank Complexity’ | Pamela Rosenkranz | Karma International at Parisa Kind,
Frankfurt |
nov 26 2008 - jan 17 2009 | ‘The Line is A Lonely Hunter’ | Pamela Rosenkranz, Andro Wekua | New Jerseyy,
Basel |
sep 04 - sep 17 2008 | ‘Dragged Down into Lowercase’ | Pamela Rosenkranz | Zentrum Paul Klee,
Bern |
aug 16 - sep 10 2008 | ‘NoLeftovers’ | Pamela Rosenkranz | Kunsthalle Bern,
Bern |
jul 19 - nov 02 2008 | ‘Principle Hope’ | Pamela Rosenkranz | Manifesta7,
Rovereto |
jul 15 - sep 09 2008 | ‘Seven Types of Ambiguity’ | Pamela Rosenkranz | Store,
London |
jun 06 - aug 31 2008 | ‘Shifting Identities – (Schweizer) Kunst heute’ | Pamela Rosenkranz, Andro Wekua | Kunsthaus Zurich,
Zurich |
may 22 - oct 12 2008 | ‘Vertrautes Terrain’ | Pamela Rosenkranz | ZKM,
Karlsruhe |
apr 19 - may 31 2008 | ‘Art Cannot Be Untaught’ | Pamela Rosenkranz, Alexandre Singh | La Rada,
Locarno |
apr 05 - jun 15 2008 | ‘When Things cast no Shadow’ | Pamela Rosenkranz | Fifth Berlin Biennale, Neue Nationalgalerie,
Berlin |
mar 28 - mar 29 2008 | ‘The Dark Fair’ | Pamela Rosenkranz | Karma International at Swiss Institute,
New York |
mar 21 - may 03 2008 | ‘Anxious Object’ | Eric Bainbridge, Carl Plackman, Pamela Rosenkranz | Store,
London |
jan 18 - mar 15 2008 | ‘Schwarze Ecken’ | Boris Mrkonjic, Pamela Rosenkranz | Karma International at Micky Schubert,
Berlin |
sep 23 - oct 21 2007 | ‘Memory’ | Pamela Rosenkranz | Sotteranei del’ Arte,
Monte Carasso |
- 2007 | Hello | A.o., Pamela Rosenkranz | Flux Factory,
New York, USA |
- 2007 | Portrait Session | A.o., Pamela Rosenkranz | Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art,
Hiroshima, JPN |
- 2006 | Head over Heals and Away | A.o., Pamela Rosenkranz | Public Space Bern,
Switzerland |
jun 03 - aug 07 2005 | Off Key | A.o., Stephen Prina, Pamela Rosenkranz | Kunsthalle Bern,
Switzerland |
- 2005 | The Final Floor Show | A.o., Pamela Rosenkranz | Objectif,
Antwerp, BE |