Julian Rosefeldt
Julian Rosefeldt (Munich,1965) is a Berlin-based artist, acclaimed internationally for his visually complex and meticulously choreographed video works, mostly presented as multi-screen installations.
Inspired by a number of cinematic, artistic and cultural references, the artist’s focus is on the questioning of human alienation – from nature, between its inhabitants and within oneself – and thus how that will increasingly continue to impact our relationship with the world. When reflecting upon the growing power of media and capitalism and by creating lonesome characters who wander through situations of complete surrealism and almost theatrical environments, Rosefeldt brings a particular form of melancholy and despair into his works, one which is frighteningly calm and assured.
Often embodying his narratives into a mélange of everyday rituals and twisted scenarios, a kind of Uncanny feeling is arisen, inviting the viewer into a familiar world made strange.
Rosefeldt has a degree in Architecture, has been a guest professor at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Faculty of Media Art, is currently teaching Digital and Time-based Media at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, in Munich, and is a member of the Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste, Department of Film and Media Art, in Munich as well.
He has exhibited in institutions such as Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, (Washington, USA), National Gallery of Victoria, (Melbourne, Australia), Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart (Berlin, Germany), Kunstmuseum Bonn (Bonn, Germany), Tel Aviv Museum of Art (Tel Aviv, Israel), Tate Modern, (London, UK), Caixa Forum (Madrid, Spain), Taipei Fine Arts Museum (Taipei, Taiwan), among others.
Rosefeldt is represented in several institutional art collections such as MoMA – The Museum of Modern Art (New York), CIFO – Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (Miami), Fundación Helga de Alvear (Cáceres), Kunstmuseum Bonn (Bonn), MUSAC – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (León), National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne), TBA21 – Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (Vienna), The Israel Museum (Jerusalem), among others.
JULIAN ROSEFELDT
Penumbra
2019/2021
1-channel film
Computer-generated and shot on HD
Stereo sound
Aspect ratio 16:9
1:30’ loop
Ed. 6 + 2 patron editions + 2 AP
JULIAN ROSEFELDT
Penumbra
2019/2021
1-channel film
Computer-generated and shot on HD
Stereo sound
Aspect ratio 16:9
1:30’ loop
Ed. 6 + 2 patron editions + 2 AP
JULIAN ROSEFELDT
Penumbra
2019/2021
1-channel film
Computer-generated and shot on HD
Stereo sound
Aspect ratio 16:9
1:30’ loop
Ed. 6 + 2 patron editions + 2 AP
JULIAN ROSEFELDT
Penumbra
2019/2021
1-channel film
Computer-generated and shot on HD
Stereo sound
Aspect ratio 16:9
1:30’ loop
Ed. 6 + 2 patron editions + 2 AP
“After the revolution, who’s going to pick up the garbage on Monday morning?”
JULIAN ROSEFELDT
Manifesto (Nº6)
2015/2017
LightJet print
170 x 135 cm
Ed. 6 + 2 AP
“All current art is fake”
JULIAN ROSEFELDT
Manifesto (Nº11)
2015/2017
LightJet print
170 x 135 cm
Ed. 6 + 2 AP
JULIAN ROSEFELDT
Manifesto
2015
13-channel film installation, colour, 26-channel sound (13 x stereo), shot on HD, 16:9, loop, 12 x 10′ 30″ and 1 x 4′ (prologue)
Ed. 6 + 4 PE + 2 AP
JULIAN ROSEFELDT
In the Land of Drought
2015/2017
Vídeo de 1 canal, cor, som, filmado em HD, transferido para um disco rígido externo, 2,35:1, loop, 43′ 15″
Ed. 6 + 2 AP
JULIAN ROSEFELDT
Deep Gold (Nr.1)
2013/2017
B/W photo, LightJet print
54 x 82 cm
Ed. 6 + 2 AP
JULIAN ROSEFELDT
Deep Gold (Nr.3)
2013/2017
B/W photo, LightJet print
54 x 82 cm
Ed. 6 + 2 AP
JULIAN ROSEFELDT
Deep Gold (Nr.12)
2013/2017
B/W photo, LightJet print
54 x 82 cm
Ed. 6 + 2 AP
JULIAN ROSEFELDT
Deep Gold (Nr.14)
2013/2017
B/W photo, LightJet print
54 x 82 cm
Ed. 6 + 2 AP
JULIAN ROSEFELDT
Deep Gold
2013/2014
1-channel film, b/w, sound, shot on HD, converted to HD-SR and transferred onto a hard disk player, aspect ratio 16:9, loop, 18’12”
Ed. 6 + 2 AP
JULIAN ROSEFELDT
American Night
2009
5-channel film installation, colour, sound, shot on 16mm anamorphic, converted to HD-SR and transferred onto Blu Ray disc, 2,35:1 cinemascope, loop, 40’42”
Ed. 6 + 2 AP
JULIAN ROSEFELDT
Black Cowboy (Nr. 1, American Night, Series 3)
2009
LightJet print
106 x 159 cm
Ed. 6 + 2 AP
JULIAN ROSEFELDT
Black Cowboy (Nr. 2, American Night, Series 3)
2009
LightJet print
106 x 159 cm
Ed. 6 + 2 AP
JULIAN ROSEFELDT
Portrait (Nr. 5, American Night, Series 4)
2009
LightJet print
40 x 50 cm
Ed. 6 + 2 AP
JULIAN ROSEFELDT
Portrait (Nr. 2, American Night, Series 4)
2009
LightJet print
40 x 50 cm
Ed. 6 + 2 AP
JULIAN ROSEFELDT
The Shift
2008
4-channel film installation, colour, sound, shot on Super 16mm, converted to PAL SD and transferred onto DVD, loop, 16 min 36 sec (1 h 6 min 24 sec loop total)
Ed. 6 + 2 AP
JULIAN ROSEFELDT
The Shift (Nr.3)
2003
LightJet print
100 x 125 cm
Ed. 6 + 2 AP
JULIAN ROSEFELDT
The Shift (Nr.6)
2003
LightJet print
100 x 125 cm
Ed. 6 + 2 AP
JULIAN ROSEFELDT
(Nr. 7, Storehouse of Asiatic antiquities dealer)
1995
B/W photo, inkjet print
63 x 53 cm (framed)
Ed. 6 + 2 AP
JULIAN ROSEFELDT
(Nr. 10, Steel helmets from former GDR army NVA at Virginia barracks, brought to West Germany after the German reunification)
1995
B/W photo, inkjet print
63 x 53 cm (framed)
Ed. 6 + 2 AP
JULIAN ROSEFELDT
(Nr. 15, National Socialist Art at customhouse storeroom, evacuated from Bavarian State Painting Collections)
Fotografia a preto e branco, impressão inkjet
63 x 53 cm (emoldurada)
Ed. 6 + 2 PA