Pamela Rosenkranz
{{short description|Swiss multimedia artist (born 1979)}}
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| name = Pamela Rosenkranz
| birth_date = June 5, 1979
| birth_place = Altdorf, Uri, Switzerland
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| nationality = Swiss
| field = Conceptual art, installation art
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| caption = Pamela Rosenkranz, 2024
| image = Pamela Rosenkranz, 2024.jpg
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Pamela Rosenkranz (born 1979 in Altdorf, Uri, Switzerland){{Cite news|url=http://www.artuner.com/artists/pamela-rosenkranz/|title=Pamela Rosenkranz - Biography, Exhibitions, and Available Art on ARTUNER|work=ARTUNER {{!}} Curated Contemporary Art|access-date=2018-03-04|language=en-GB}} is a Swiss 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. She is represented by Karma International, Zurich / Los Angeles; Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York; and Sprüth Magers Berlin, London and Los Angeles.{{Cite news|url=http://miguelabreugallery.com/artists/rosenkranz/|title=Pamela Rosenkranz - Miguel Abreu Gallery|work=Miguel Abreu Gallery|access-date=2018-03-08|language=en-US}}
Education and career
Rosenkranz graduated from the University of Zurich in 2005, and received her MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts, Bern, in 2010. In 2012, she completed an independent residency at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam.{{Cite web|url=https://www.artuner.com/artists/pamela-rosenkranz/|title=Pamela Rosenkranz - Biography, Exhibitions, and Available Art on ARTUNER|website=ARTUNER {{!}} Curated Contemporary Art|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-03-01}} 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 2015 exhibition Open Source: Art at the Eclipse of Capitalism.{{Cite web|url=https://www.artuner.com/insight/preview-open-source-art-eclipse-capitalism/|title=Open Source: Art at the Eclipse of Capitalism|website=ARTUNER {{!}} Curated Contemporary Art|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-03-01}} 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.
Having collaborated with Robin Mackay and Reza Negarestani, Rosenkranz's work is often framed in relation to Speculative Realism.{{Cite journal|last=Rosenmeyer|first=Aoife|date=January 2015|title=IN THE STUDIO: PAMELA ROSENKRANZ|url=http://content.ebscohost.com/ContentServer.asp?T=P&P=AN&K=100227340&S=R&D=keh&EbscoContent=dGJyMNLe80SeprY4y9fwOLCmr1Cep7ZSr6q4S7KWxWXS&ContentCustomer=dGJyMPGvr0qzrbNRuePfgeyx44Dt6fIA|journal=Art in America|volume=103|pages=76–83|via=EBSCOhost}} Her institutional solo exhibitions in Geneva, New York, and Braunschweig were covered in a 2012 monograph entitled No Core.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=2626&menu=0|title=Pamela Rosenkranz : No Core - Les presses du réel (book)|website=www.lespressesdureel.com|access-date=2020-03-01}}
Exhibitions
While still a student at the Academy of Fine Arts, Bern, Rosenkranz participated in both the 5th Berlin Biennale and Manifesta 7, in Trentino, Italy. In 2010, the same year that she graduated with a master's degree, Rosenkranz exhibited solo at Centre d’Art Contemporain Geneve, and at Germany’s Kunstverein Braunschweig.{{Cite web|url=https://kunstvereinbraunschweig.de/en/exhibitions/pamela-rosenkranz-untouched-man/|title=Pamela Rosenkranz: Untouched by Man - Kunstverein Braunschweig|website=kunstvereinbraunschweig.de|access-date=2020-03-01}}
Rosenkranz's first solo exhibition at Miguel Abreu Gallery in 2012, "Because They Try to Bore Holes," collapsed art into its material elements.{{Cite web|url=http://moussemagazine.it/pamela-rosenkranz/|title=Pamela Rosenkranz at Miguel Abreu, New York •|date=2012-04-15|website=Mousse Magazine|language=it-IT|access-date=2020-03-01}}
In 2015, Rosenkranz exhibited Open Source: Art at the Eclipse of Capitalism. Later that year, she represented Switzerland at the Venice Biennale with an immersive installation of immaterial elements titled Our Product.{{Cite web|url=https://www.designboom.com/art/swiss-pavilion-venice-biennale-2015-pamela-rosenkranz-05-08-2015/|title=pamela rosenkranz fills swiss pavilion with immaterial elements at venice biennale 2015|date=2015-05-08|website=designboom|language=en|access-date=2020-03-01}}
She exhibited Slight Agitation 2/4: Pamela Rosenkranz in 2017 at Fondazione Prada, Milan.
In 2018, Rosenkranz debuted Amazon Spirits (Green Blood) at Karma International in Zurich to explore the intersection between the Amazonian rainforest and amazon.com, Inc.{{Cite web|url=https://contemporaryartdaily.com/2018/07/pamela-rosenkranz-at-karma-international-3/|title=Pamela Rosenkranz at Karma International (Contemporary Art Daily)|website=contemporaryartdaily.com|access-date=2020-03-01}}
In her 2019 exhibition Evian Waters, Rosenkranz highlighted the chemical and natural components underlying notions of eternal youth and purity.{{Cite web|url=https://www.biennaledelyon.com/en/artistes/pamela-rosenkranz-2/|title=Pamela Rosenkranz|website=Biennale d'art contemporain|access-date=2020-03-01}}
Bibliography
- {{Cite book|title=No Core|last=Rosenkranz|first=Pamela|publisher=JRP Ringier|year=2012|isbn=9783037643013|location=Zurich}}
- {{Cite book|title=Our sun|last=Rosenkranz|first=Pamela|publisher=Mousse Publishing|year=2010|isbn=9788896501061|location=Milan}}
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