For this exhibition, Trockel installed a new suite of video projections connected by cantilevered aluminum walls that are suffused with warm ambient light. In this installation, Trockel's continuing interest in the multifarious meanings of spleen is filtered through the feminist perspective at the heart of her practice.

Artist Biography

Born in 1952 in Schwerte, Germany, Rosemarie Trockel studied painting with Werner Schriefers at the Werkkunstschule in Cologne from 1974 to 1978. Since her debut show at Galerie Philomene Magers (later Monika Sprüth, Cologne) in Bonn in 1983, she has exhibited widely in Europe and North America and was included in such major shows as the Venice Biennial (1999, 1996), Istanbul Biennial (1999, 1995), and Documenta X (with Carsten Höller, 1997). Recent one-person exhibitions were presented at the Sammlung Goetz, Munich (2002), De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg (2001), Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2001), the German pavilion in the Venice Biennial (1999), and the Kunsthalle, Hamburg (traveling throughout Europe, 1998). She lives and works in Cologne.