Julian Rosefeldt
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Life
Julian Rosefeldt studied architecture in Munich and Barcelona. After receiving his diploma in 1994, he began working in collaboration with fellow Munich graduate Piero Steinle. Since 1999 he has worked independently. Rosefeldt has exhibited internationally since 1997 at the Bienal de São Paulo (2004), Athens Biennal (2007), the P.S.1, New York (1998), Kunst-Werke Berlin e.V. – Institute for Contemporary Art (2004), the Royal Academy of ArtsRoyal Academy
The Royal Academy of Arts is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly, London. The Royal Academy of Arts has a unique position in being an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects whose purpose is to promote the creation, enjoyment and...
, London (2008), and the Kunstmuseum Bonn (2009), amongst others. Today his works are represented in reputable art collections, such as the Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world...
, New York. Rosefeldt has lived and worked in Berlin since 1999, when he relocated as Artist in Residence at the Sammlung Hoffmann. In addition to his art production, Rosefeldt also works with the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, often collaborating with its head and creative director Thomas Ostermeier. In 2009, Rosefeldt was invited as a guest professor by the Media Art and Media Design faculty at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
The Bauhaus-University Weimar is a university located in Weimar, Germany and specializes in the artistic and technical fields. Established in 1860 as the Great Ducal Saxon Art School, it gained collegiate status on 3 June 1910 and received its present name in 1996...
. Since 2010, Rosefeldt has been a member of the Bayerischen Akademie der Schönen Künste in the division of Film and Media Art.
Works
Julian Rosefeldt’s work consists primarily of elaborate film and video installations. In most cases, these installations are shown as panoramic multi-channel projections. They range in style from documentary to theatrical narrative.Rosefeldt primarily uses 16-mm and 35-mm film and has often worked in close cooperation with the cinematographer Christoph Krauss.
Rosefeldt also works in the medium of photography.
Collections
Julian Rosefeldt’s works are represented in the following permanent collections, amongst others:Museum of Modern Art New York
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world...
, Saatchi Gallery London
Saatchi Gallery
The Saatchi Gallery is a London gallery for contemporary art, opened by Charles Saatchi in 1985 in order to exhibit his collection to the public. It has occupied different premises, first in North London, then the South Bank by the River Thames and currently in Chelsea. Saatchi's collection, and...
, Goetz Collection
Goetz Collection
The Goetz Collection is a private collection of contemporary art in Munich, Germany. The collection is owned and continually being built by the former gallery dealer Ingvild Goetz, who presents the collection to the public in a series of themed exhibitions in a purpose built museum designed by the...
, Munich, Kunstmuseum Bonn
Kunstmuseum Bonn
The Kunstmuseum Bonn or Bonn Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Bonn, Germany, founded in 1947. The Kunstmuseum exhibits both temporary exhibitions and its collection. Its collection is focused on Rhenish Expressionism and post-war German art...
, Burger Collection Hong Kong, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation Miami, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon, Sammlung Hoffmann Berlin, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Wien, CAC Malaga, Ellipse Foundation – Contemporary Art Collection, Cascais, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf
Awards
2010- Vattenfall Contemporary
2007
- 1st Price of the Filmstiftung NRW within the international competition on kunstFilmBIENNALE Cologne
Trivia
Tom TykwerTom Tykwer
Tom Tykwer is a German film director, screenwriter, and composer. He is best known internationally for directing Run Lola Run , Heaven , Perfume: The Story of a Murderer , and The International ....
’s 2009 film The International
The International (film)
The International is a 2009 thriller film directed by Tom Tykwer. The film follows an Interpol agent and an American attorney who investigate corruption within the IBBC, a fictional merchant bank based in Luxembourg. It serves organized crime and corrupt governments as a banker and as an arms...
(starring Clive Owen
Clive Owen
Clive Owen is an English actor, who has worked on television, stage and film. He first gained recognition in the United Kingdom for portraying the lead in the ITV series Chancer from 1990 to 1991...
, Naomi Watts
Naomi Watts
Naomi Ellen Watts is a British actress. Watts began her career in Australian television, where she appeared in series such as Hey Dad..! , Brides of Christ , and Home and Away . Her film debut was the 1986 drama For Love Alone...
and
Armin Mueller-Stahl
Armin Mueller-Stahl
Armin Mueller-Stahl is a German film actor, painter, writer and musician.-Early life:Mueller-Stahl was born in Tilsit, East Prussia...
in leading roles) featured a detailed life-size replica of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is a well-known museum located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, United States. It is the permanent home to a renowned collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, early Modern, and contemporary art and also features special exhibitions...
's interior space, designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures and completed 500 works. Wright believed in designing structures which were in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture...
.
In the replica of the exhibition rooms was presented a retrospective of Julian Rosefeldt, primarily consisting of film installations.
The famous climax of Tykwer's film is a dramatic shootout within the museum where many of Rosefeldt's installations are riddled with bullets.
Selected exhibitions
2010- Julian Rosefeldt – Making Of: Film Installations and Photo Works 2004–2010, DA2 – Domus Artium, Salamanca
- Julian Rosefeldt – American Night, British Film Institute, London
- fast forward 2. The Power of Motion, ZKM Karlsruhe
- Living in Oblivion / Vattenfall Contemporary 2010, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
2009 - 2010
- Julian Rosefeldt – American Night. Filminstallations 2004-2009, EX3 – Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea, Florence; Kunstmuseum Bonn
2009
- Conflicting Tales: Subjectivity (Quadrilogy, Part 1) Burger Collection, Berlin
- 4th Biennial of Moving Image - Contour Mechelen Biennale, Contour Mechelen
- Ease and Eagerness Modernism Today, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
- Höhepunkte der Kölner KunstFilmBiennale in Berlin, Kunst-Werke Berlin e.V. – Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
2008 - 2009
- The Prisoner's Dilemma, CIFO Miami
- Molten States: Olaf Nicolai, René Pollesch, Julian Rosefeldt, Catherine Sullivan, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2008
- Julian Rosefeldt, Max Wigram Gallery, London
- The Tropics. Views from the Middle of the Globe, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
- The Order of Things, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp
- The Cinema Effect: Part II Realisms, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington
- The Way Things Are…, Centre of Contemporary Art, Torun
- The Ship Of Fools, Arndt & Partner, Berlin
- Requiem, Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid
- Emergency Biennale Chechnya / World Tour, Grozny, CCA Playspace Gallery, California College of the Arts, San Francisco; Galeria Arsenał, Białystok
- Laughing in a Foreign Language, Hayward Gallery, London
- The Ship of Fools, Phillips de Pury & Co, New York
2007-2008
- Existencias, MUSAC, Leon
- 100 TAGE=100 VIDEOS, GL Strand, Copenhagen
2007
- Best of KunstFilmBiennale, Apeejay Media Gallery, New Delhi
- Cine y casi cine, Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid
- KunstFilmBiennale 2007 Köln / Bonn Kunstfilmbiennale Cologne
- Julian Rosefeldt: The Perfectionist / KunstFilmBiennale, Baukunst Galerie, Köln
- Destroy Athens. The 1st Athens Biennale, Athens
- The Hurricane Projects, The Moore Space, Miami
- Emergency Biennale Chechnya, 10th Istanbul Biennial, Kadiköy Public Education Centre, Istanbul
- Generational Issue, CGAC, Santiago de Compostela
- XIV. ROHKUNSTBAU „Drei Farben - Weiss“, Schloss Sacrow, Potsdam
- Silence. Listen to the Show, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
- Made in Germany, Kunstverein Hannover
- Scheitern, Landesgalerie Linz
- Kino wie noch nie, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
- Manipulations: On Economies of Deceit, Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw
- Unter Sternen, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf
- Julian Rosefeldt, KORAALBERG, Antwerpen
2006 - 2007
- Manipulacje, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Danzig
2006
- Manipulacje, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk
- 1. Bienal de Canarias Arquitectura Arte y Paisaje, Canary Islands
- Julian Rosefeldt – Trilogie des Scheiterns, Teil III, ZKMax, Munich
- Höhepunkte der KunstFilmBiennale Köln, Kunst-Werke Berlin e.V. – Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
- Julian Rosefeldt – Clown, Max Wigram Gallery, London
- Printemps de Septembre 2006, Toulouse
- 100 TAGE=100 VIDEOS Kunstverein Heidelberg
- Mathilda is calling Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt
- Emergency Biennale Chechnya / World Tour, Grozny; Vancouver
- Video-Installationens from the Olbricht Collection: Rodney Graham, Tony Oursler, Nam June Paik, Pipilotti Rist, Julian Rosefeldt, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten, Marl
- sonambiente berlin 2006, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
- Julian Rosefeldt – Lonely Planet, Arndt & Partner, Berlin
- Julian Rosefeldt – Lonely Planet, Kunstverein Bonn
- Mas de lo que los ojos pueden ver, MARCO Monterrey
- Global Players - Zeitgenössische Künstler aus Japan und Deutschland, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen
- Dark Places, Santa Monica Museum of Art
- Kino wie noch nie, Generali Foundation, Vienna
2005 - 2006
- Indeterminate States, CIFO Miami
- Baroque and Neobaroque: The Hell of the Beautiful, Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca
2005
- Julian Rosefeldt – asylum, Haus der Kunst, Munich (during the Spielart Festival)
- Julian Rosefeldt Galeria Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
- Global Players: Contemporary Japanese and German Artists, Tokyo Gallery, Tokio; BankART 1929, Yokohama
- Manipulations: On Economies of Deceit, IBCA 2005. Prague Biennale, Nationalgalerie, Prague
- architektur mobil, Wilhelm Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen
- Julian Rosefeldt: The Soundmaker, Arndt & Partner Zurich
- Julian Rosefeldt: Trilogy of Failure, Parts I+II, ZKMax, Munich
- Emergency Biennale Chechnya / World Tour, Grozny, Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Matrix Art Project, Brussels; EURAC European Academy of Bolzano; Isola Art Center, Milan
2004
- 26. Biennale São Paulo
- ein-leuchten, Museum der Moderne Rupertinum, Salzburg
- Julian Rosefeldt: Asylum, BALTIC, Gateshead
- Sebastian Diaz Morales, Marine Hugonnier und Julian Rosefeldt, Kunst-Werke Berlin e.V. – Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
- SHAKE SHAKE – Staatsaffäre / Affaire d’Etat, OK Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz; VILLA ARSON, Nice
2003
- Rituale, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
- Julian Rosefeldt und Piero Steinle, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf
2002
- asylum, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
- Julian Rosefeldt: Global Soap, XXL Gallery, Sofia
2001
- Tele[visions] - Kunst sieht fern, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
- Julian Rosefeldt / Piero Steinle: Detonation Deutschland, Architekturzentrum, Vienna
- Global Soap, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
- Julian Rosefeldt: Global Soap, Goethe-Institut, Salvador de Bahia
- Julian Rosefeldt, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2000
- Julian Rosefeldt/Piero Steinle: Les Cathédrales Inconnues, Goethe-Institut, Galerie Condé, Paris
- Multiple Sensations: series, collections, obsessions, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
- Deep Distance: Die Entfernung der Fotografie, Kunsthalle Basel
- Julian Rosefeldt/Piero Steinle, Galerie Romain Larivière, Paris
- Julian Rosefeldt/Piero Steinle, Galerie Six Friedrich Lisa Ungar, Munich
1999
- Wohin kein Auge reicht: Von der Entdeckung des Unsichtbaren, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
- News – Julian Rosefeldt/Piero Steinle, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig
- News, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
1998
- Deep Storage – Collecting, Storing and Archiving in Art, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; P.S.1, New York; Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf
- Performing Buildings, Tate Modern, London
- News, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
1997
- Deep Storage – Arsenale der Erinnerung, Neue Nationalgalerie/Kulturforum, Berlin; Haus der Kunst, Munich
- Paris – Les Cathédrales Inconnues, Espace des Blancs Manteaux, Paris
1996
- Detonation Deutschland, Orangerie, Munich
1995
- München – Die Unbekannten Kathedralen, Orangerie, Munich
1994
- Stadt im Verborgenen, Orangerie, Munich
Bibliographie
- Ingvild Goetz and Stephan Urbaschek, eds. fast forward 2: The Power of Motion. Exh. cat., ZKM Museum für Neue Kunst Karlsruhe, 2010. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2010, ISBN 978-3-7757-2604-7
- Julian Rosefeldt: Living in Oblivion. Exh. cat., Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, 2010. Bielefeld: Kerber Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86678-414-7
- Stephan Berg, et al, eds. Julian Rosefeldt: American Night. Exh. cat., EX3 Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea, 2009, and Kunstmuseum Bonn, 2010. Berlin: The Green Box Kunst Editionen, 2009, ISBN 978-3-941644-15-1
- Stephan Berg, et al. eds. Julian Rosefeldt: Film Works. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2008, ISBN 978-3-7757-2171-4
- Michael Rush. Video Art, revised 2. edition, London, 2007, ISBN 978-0500284872
- Made in Germany – Aktuelle Kunst aus Deutschland. Exh. cat., Kestnergesellschaft, Kunstverein Hannover and Sprengel Museum, Hannover, 2007. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2007, ISBN 978-3-7757-1985-8
- The Ship of Fools (Collector's Edition), Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2007
- Mark Gisbourne. Kunststation Berlin. Munich, 2006, ISBN 978-3-89660-364-7
- BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, ed. Julian Rosefeldt: asylum. Exh. cat., Festival d’Avignon et al., 2004. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2004, ISBN 3-7757-1512-6
- Julian Rosefeldt, ed., Global Soap. Exh. cat., Künstlerhaus Bethanien. Berlin, 2001, ISBN 3-00-008099-6
- Julian Rosefeldt, Piero Steinle and Iris Lauterbach, eds., Bürokratie und Kult. Das Parteizentrum der NSDAP am Königsplatz in München. Berlin / Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1995, ISBN 3-422-06164-9
- News: Eine Videoinstallation von Julian Rosefeldt und Piero Steinle. Exh. cat., Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 1998. Heidelberg: Kehrer Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3-933257-02-6 / Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 1998, ISBN 3-926154-36-5
- Julian Rosefeldt and Piero Steinle, eds. Paris – Les Cathédrales Inconnues – Espaces vides dans l’ombre de la ville. Exh. cat., Espace des Blancs Manteaux. Paris, 1997
- Julian Rosefeldt and Piero Steinle, eds., Detonation Deutschland – Sprengbilder einer Nation. Exh. cat., Orangerie. Munich, 1996