When mika rottenberg and marilyn minter get togther, as they did for a collaborative installation for miami, the results are inevitably juicy. Mika rottenberg, spaghetti blockchain, 2019 2 of 2. Mika rottenbergs eccentric visual narratives use video and sculpture to create relations among seemingly unrelated economies, collapsing space, time and subjectivities. Mika rottenberg is organized by leilani lynch, assistant curator, the bass mika rottenberg is sponsored in part by funding arts network and citizens interested in arts. Mika rottenberg s selftitled solo exhibition at the bass presents a selection of work created within the past two years. With a colorful, glitzy, and seemingly lighthearted aesthetic, the works in mika rottenbergs exhibition touch on heavy topics such as sweatshop labor, the role of women in the workplace, the. This is mika rottenberg herb alpert award video compilation by andrea rosen gallery on vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the. In this film, seven 2011a collaborative work by the artists mika rottenberg and jon kessler. By visiting our website or transacting with us, you agree to this. Exhibitions 2016 mika rottenberg exhibitions in 2016.
Mika rottenberg was born in 1976 in buenos aires, argentina, was raised in tel aviv, israel, and now lives and works in upstate new york. Mika rottenberg the bass museum of art contemporary art. If you have suggestions for improvement, please contact us at email protected. Art21 produces the peabody awardwinning pbsbroadcast. In this film, artist mika rottenberg considers a survey of her videos in which women work in factorylike settings to create handmade objects. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes. Mika rottenbergs easypieces transports you to parts. Explore the absurdity of contemporary capitalism with an indepth tour of mika rottenberg. Her latest work, squeeze, a twentyminute video installation, combines documentary and fictional footage. In parallel, she transports them in a factory where meals are concocted.
Working in video, installation, and sculpture, rottenberg is interested in making reality blend with her personal fiction. Its undeniable that her works address issue of labor, and that such a topic is imperative. In her exhibition bowls balls souls holes at sprueth magers in berlin, rottenberg investigates the cyclical nature of luck under the auspices of capitalistic culture. Mika rottenberg is a video artist born in 1976 in buenos aires, argentina, raised in tel. Born in buenos aires and educated in israel, artist mika rottenberg has been living and working in new york for over ten years. Conversations mika rottenberg in conversation with margot norton thursday 07112019. The work is on view at the san francisco museum of modern art until october 3 and will be exhibited at mary boone gallery in.
Mika rottenberg explains how various works evolved, including tropical breeze, dough, squeeze, and cheese, tracing from conception through execution and finally to. Mika rottenberg right, things that tap into everyones subconscious memory. A nonprofit organization, art21s mission is to inspire a more creative world through the works and words of contemporary artists. Much of rottenbergs practice would read as marxistfeminist critique were it not for the way that she. She is best known for her video and installation work that often deals with the subject of female labour. She finds her odd bigger than life characters on the internet. Mika rottenberg herb alpert award video compilation on vimeo. At once timely and polemical, absurd and fantastic, nonoseknows explores the mass production of cultured pearls for the luxury market, labor almost exclusively performed by.
Mika rottenberg is a member of vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. In mika rottenbergs dreamlike video works, bodies become a means of production creating what the artist calls a spiritual kind of marxism. But such readings of rottenbergs work are too simplistic. As an undergraduate student in israel in the 1990s, i didnt have access to video art. It was still expensive and not much of it was being made there, so i guess i became a. Join facebook to connect with mika rottenberg and others you may know. The exceptional video artist mika rottenberg here presents her intriguing video installation cosmic generator. Mika rottenberg first shown in the 2015 venice biennale, nonoseknows 50 kilo variant is a video installation by the argentine born, new york based artist mika rottenberg. In this video she shares the fascinating story behind her equally mesmerizing take on orwells.
In 1998, she graduated from hamidrasha school of art, beit berl college, israel. It really starts with falling in love with someones appearance or the way that they carry their appearance and then we meet. New yorkbased video artist mika rottenberg is known for her largescale installations and interest in labor as well as process. Mika rottenberg is a video artist born in 1976 in buenos aires, argentina, raised in tel aviv, israel, and now based in new york city.
Find an indepth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. For minters selftitled 2007 book, rottenberg, the formers former student at sva, asked her about the relationship of her very visceral process to sweat. Mika rottenbergs film installations explore the seduction, magic, and desperation of our hypercapitalistic, globally connected reality. The artists new video installation focuses on the strange and sometimes alluring. Join us for a special conversation between artist mika rottenberg and new museum curator margot norton on the occasion of rottenbergs exhibition easypieces. In 2000, rottenberg moved to new york to continue her education, receiving a bachelor of fine arts from the school of visual arts in 2000 and a master of fine arts from. The rise of the internet was a revelation to rottenberg, who discovered that this was the optimal way of searching for people. Employing absurdist satire to address the critical issues of our time, rottenberg creates videos and installations that offer subversive allegories. Mika rottenberg was born in buenos aires in 1976 and lives and works in new york. Art21 is a celebrated global leader in presenting thoughtprovoking and sophisticated content about contemporary art, and the goto place to learn firsthand from the artists of our time. Mika rottenberg was born in buenos aires, argentina in 1976.
She is best known for her surreal video and installation work that often deals with the subject of female labour. The exhibition is also presented with the support of the city of miami beach, cultural affairs program and cultural arts council, the. Her installations are in the collections of the museum of modern art, new york. Exceptional women, such as the powerful heather foster, the sizeable queen raqui her body utterly amazing, her agility astounding, and the super tall erotic model bunny glamazone, become absurd characters in the colourful films of mika rottenberg. Visual descriptions feature a narration of what occurs visually in the video descriptive captioning presents onscreen captions reflecting the noises made in the work we are excited to provide these accessible video formats for all of the video works in mika rottenberg. Mika rottenberg creates elaborate and imaginative video installations as vehicles to explore ideas of class, labor, gender, and value. Rottenberg s work comprises an environment where the viewer is multaneously placed before and inside a peculiar, psychedelic setting of colorful explosion and synthetic bliss. Rottenbergs cinematic works, which have a surrealistic aesthetic and are rigidly structured in a spatial. Readings of mika rottenbergs work nearly always herald it as marxist or at least anticapitalist critique.
In the exhibition of the kurt schwitters prize winner mika rottenberg 1976 in buenos aires, lives and works in new york her latest film spaghetti blockchain has its european premiere. In her video nonoseknows, mika rottenberg brings the viewer in a pearl farm in zhuji, china. In this film, artist mika rottenberg considers a survey of her videos in which women work in. Mika rottenbergs selftitled solo exhibition at the bass presents a selection of work created within the past two years. Female workers produce goods in strange factories that follow elaborate manufacturing rationales. Rottenberg was born in 1976 in argentina, raised in israel, and currently lives and works in new york. Mika rottenberg and the amazing invention factory new. I have to tap deeper into this psychological vein, so then i can drag people with me. Her film installations explore the seduction, magic, and desperation of our hypercapitalistic, globally connected reality.
The artist, who above all considers herself a sculptor, often begins a project by seeking out female performers noted for their unusual physical characteristics, such as bodybuilders. Easypieces new museum, new york, on view through september 15, 2019. In 2000, rottenberg moved to new york to continue her education, receiving a bachelor of fine arts from the school of visual arts in 2000 and a master of fines arts from columbia university in 2004. Mika rottenberg discusses squeeze artforum international. Mika rottenbergs surreal new museum show includes a work. Exploring the seduction, magic, and desperation of our hypercapitalist, globallyconnected reality, mika rottenbergs elaborate visual narratives draw on cinematic and sculptural traditions to forge a new languageone that uses cause and effect structures to explore labor and globalization, economy and production of value, and how our own affective relationships are increasingly. Working primarily within film, mika sees video as a medium, a place in. To find out more, including which thirdparty cookies we place and how to manage cookies, see our privacy policy. Rottenberg is also the recipient of numerous awards including the cartier award at the frieze art fair in 2006. In 1998, she graduated from hamidrasha, bait berl college of arts, israel. Mika rottenbergs latest video foray into the lives of women as objects of desire, exploitation and elaborate hygiene rituals, is, as usual, hilarious and sinister but maybe more mysterious than.
M museum vanderkelenstraat 28 3000 leuven, belgium. In comparison, i examined the works of mika rottenberg, who is now a new york. Mika rottenberg nonoseknows 50 kilos variant the met. The rise of the internet was a revelation to rottenberg, who discovered that this was the optimal way of searching for people, who rented out their bodies. In this podcast mika rottenberg discusses her art and the process of putting together the exhibition sneeze to squeeze with curator tessa praun. Siberia, with its warbling throat singers, as well as a potato farm in maine and the phenomenon known as a.
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