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Julian Rosefeldt

Soap Sample IX

2000
Lambda print

130 x 130 cm

Julian Rosefeldt’s Global Soap project is a vast collection of soap opera images archiving housewives’ favourites from all over the globe. Highlighting the TV template of formulaic plotlines and fluency in the universal language of schmaltz, Rosefeldt’s Soap photos present multiple panels of characters playing out identikit roles. Cropped to the format of actor’s publicity shots, the groupings of Rosefeldt’s subjects read like multi-national casting calls for archetypal villains and victims.


Within Rosefeldt’s project issues of racial and national difference give way to the fashion of globalised sameness. The perception of ‘other’ is removed from ethnic preconception with each figure identified through their familiar dramatic parts rather than their outward appearance. As rows of characters shake fingers and scowl, wave hands with indignation, or gesture in false modesty, Rosefeldt trades the habits of cultural assumption for the altogether more alluring indulgence in titillation and melodrama.


Julian Rosefeldt

Soap Sample VIII

2000
Lambda print

130 x 130 cm


Julian Rosefeldt

Soap Sample VI

2000 - 2004
Lambda print

130 x 130 cm



ARTIST INFORMATION




Julian Rosefeldt's BIOGRAPHY



1965
Born in Munich, Germany

Lives and works in Berlin


SOLO EXHIBITIONS


2005
Galería Leyyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
Asylum, part of the theatre festival Spielart, Haus der Kunst, Munich
The Soundmaker, Arndt & Partner, Zürich
Trilogy of Failure, ZKMax, München

2004
Trilogy of Failure, Kunst-Werke, Berlin
Asylum, Festival d’Avignon, Avignon, France
Baltic, The Centre for Contemporary
Art, Gateshead/Newcastle
Spike Island, Bristol
Max Wigram Gallery, London

2003
Asylum, Chulalongkorn Art Gallery, Bangkok
Atlantis Space, London

2002
Asylum, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
Global Soap, XXL Gallery, Sofia

2001
Global Soap, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Herzliya Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
Goethe-Institut, Salvador de Bahia
Detonation Deutschland, Architekturzentrum, Vienna

2000
Julian Rosefeldt/ Piero Steinle, Goethe-Institut, Paris

1999
Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig
ZKM I Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe

1998
Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf

1997
Paris – Les Cathédrales Inconnues, Espace des Blancs Manteaux, Paris

1996
Detonation Deutschland, Orangerie, München
As Catedrais Desconhecidas, Alfândega, Porto, Portugal

1995
München – Die Unbekannten Kathedralen, Orangerie, München

1994
Stadt im Verborgenen, Orangerie, München


GROUP EXHIBITIONS


2006
Global players, Deutsche und japanische Kunst der Gegenwart, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Germany
Dark Places, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California

2005
Upcoming in 2005, Global Players, Contemporary Japanese and German artists, Yokohama and Tokyo, Japan
Baroque and Neo-Baroque, The Hell of the Beautiful, Domus Artium DA2, Salamanca, Spain
Others, Sørlandet Art Museum, Kristiansand, Norway
Global Players, Contemporary Japanese and German artists, Yokohama and Tokyo, Japan
Baroque and Neo-Baroque, The Hell of the Beautiful, Domus Artium DA2, Salamanca, Spain
Art Basel Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland
Prague Biennial – Manipulations, On Economies of Deceit, National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
Comedy, during the Moscow Art Fair, curated by Ekaterina Degot, Moscow, Russia
El diablo no es tan feo como lo pintan, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Contrabandistas de Imágenes, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Chile, Chile
Biennial of Urgency, Grozny, Chechenya, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

2004
26. São Paulo Biennale, São Paulo
Shake-Affaire d’Etat, Villa Arson-Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Nice, France
O.K Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz, Austria
Einleuchten, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria

2003
Rituale, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Melodrama, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo, Spain

2002
Beckmann – un peintre dans l’histoire,
Centre National Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria, Spain
Centro José Guerriero, Granata
Architourism, Columbia University/Buell Center, New York

2001
Tele[vision] – Kunst sieht fern, Kunsthalle Vienna
De Schoonheid van het Kwaad, De Zonnehof, Amersfoort, Netherlands

2000
Multiple Sensations, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
Die Entfernung der Fotografie, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel

1999
Wohin kein Auge reicht, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle

1998
Deep Storage – Arsenale der Erinnerung, Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf
P.S.1, New York
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
Performing Buildings, Tate Gallery of Modern Art, London

1997
Deep Storage – Arsenale der Erinnerung, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Nationalgalerie/ Kulturforum Berlin

 


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