PAMELA ROSENKRANZ

Pamela Rosenkranz investigates the systems by which people give meaning to the natural world, reflecting on our need to anthropomorphize and construct metaphors to navigate our lived environment. She creates conceptual, abstract sculptures, works on paper, videos, and installations, that nearly always reference the figurative by alluding to its condition as a malleable code that has been repeatedly hijacked by commercial marketing strategies and consumerism. Rosenkranz’s work enlists the Internet-driven thinking of her generation; her references range from politics, history, philosophy, and technology, to pop-culture and advertising. Making reference to topics we encounter in the image-saturated and information-overload of everyday life, Rosenkranz creates links that enable us to see the unexpected connections between objects and ideas, whilst also alienating us at the same time…

Pamela Rosenkranz completed studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Bern (2004) and the University of Zurich (2005). In 2012 she undertook an Independent Residency at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam. Selected solo shows include GAMeC Bergamo, Bergamo; Slight Agitation 2/4, Cisterna, Fondazione Prada, Milan (both 2017); Our Product, Swiss Pavillion, 56th Venice Biennale, Venice (2015); Swiss Institute, New York (2011); Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva (2010); Swiss Institute, Venice (2009). Recent group shows and installations include ICA Boston; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark (2018); Künstlerr.me, K21, Dusseldorf; The Garden, ARoS Museum of Modern Art, Aarhus; Boros Collection, Berlin; Carpenter Center at Harvard, Cambridge; (2017); Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel; Wirikuta (Mexican Time-Slip), Museo Espacio, Aguascalientes, Mexico; 13th Triennale Kleinplastik Fellbach, Fellbach (2016); No Man’s Land, Rubell Family Collection, Miami (2015); Taipei Biennale, Taipei, Taiwan; Blue Times, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (both 2014); Expo 1: New York, MoMA PS1, New York; Think First, Shoot Later, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2013); How to Work (More for) Less, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (2011); The Real Thing, Tate Britain, London (2010).