Rachel Rose

In recent years, Rachel Rose has quickly risen to prominence for her compelling video installations and films. In her work, the artist often explores how our relationship to landscape, storytelling, and belief systems around mortality are inseparably linked to one other. Whether imagining the sensory experiences of zero gravity in outer space, researching the idea of abandonment in children’s literature, or examining magical beliefs in 16th- and 17th-century agrarian Europe, Rose uses the past to address how present conditions shape our conceptions of impermanence, society and land rights. She ultimately questions what it is that makes us human and how we seek to alter and escape that designation.

From collaging footage to the more recent narrative film making, Rose draws from and contributes to a long history of cinematic innovation. For every work, she develops methods of projection and display that immerse or affect the viewer’s physical experience of moving image and sound. In this respect, her practice is exploratory in both form and content.

For her first large-scale solo exhibition in Germany, the artist, born in 1986 in New York, will present a selection of her video installations and a new series of sculptures at the Fridericianum.

Opening hours: Tuesday–Sunday & public holidays 11am–6pm