Rosemarie Trockel

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Rosemarie Trockel

Born

13 November 1952

(age 73)

(now Germany)

Notable work

Cogito Ergo Sum

(1988)

Awards

(2011)

Rosemarie Trockel

(born 13 November 1952) is a German

She has made drawings, paintings, sculptures, videos and installations, and

has worked in

From 1985, she made pictures using

She is a professor at the

, in

Early life and education

[

]

Trockel was born on 13 November 1952 in

, in

. Between 1974 and 1978, she studied anthropology, mathematics, sociology and theology while also studying

at the

, at a time when the influence of

was very strong there.

In the early 1980s, Trockel met members of the Mülheimer Freiheit

founded by

and

, and exhibited at the women-only gallery of

in Cologne.

Work

[

]

The

, in Klaus

Mann Platz,

; 1994

cast iron

Trockel's work often criticises the work of other artists, or artistic styles such

: 252

In 1985, she began to make large-scale paintings produced

on industrial knitting machines. These regularly featured geometric motifs or

logos such as the

or a

, and the trademark:

Made in

West Germany

During the 1980s, she also worked for the magazine

Eau de Cologne

which was focused on the work of women artists.

: 252

In 1994, Trockel created the

monument for the city of

For

in 1997, she and

collaborated on an installation in one of the exhibition's outbuildings.

Since the late 1990s, she

has worked extensively with clay and has also continued to produce both hand and machine knitted "paintings". Several

of these paintings were exhibited in a retrospective,

Post-Menopause

, at the

in Cologne in 2005.

: 252

Amid the

, Trockel collaborated with

designer

on the brand’s 2021 ad

campaign

Recognition

[

]

2011 –

2004 –

Exhibitions

[

]

Trockel’s work was included in the Italian Pavilion in 2013

and represented Germany at the

1999;

she participated in

in 1997 and 2012. Other exhibitions include:

2005:

Post-Menopause

, Cologne

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2009:

Rebelle: Art & Feminism 1969–2009

, Holland

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2012–2013:

Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos

;

, London;

2015:

Märzôschnee ûnd Wiebôrweh sand am Môargô niana më

, Austria

2018:

The Same Different

, Sweden.

Legacy

[

]

Trockel's students at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf have included

and

References

[

]

Nina Lübbren (2006).

Grove Art Online

Oxford Art Online

. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

(subscription required)

Benezit Dictionary of Artists

. Oxford: Oxford Art Online, Oxford University Press.

(subscription

required)

. Wolf Foundation. Accessed September 2017.

Lynne Cooke (2012).

Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos

(exhibition catalogue). Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina

Sofia.

Mirjam Westen (2009).

Rebelle: Art & Feminism 1969–2009

(exhibition catalogue). Arnhem: Museum voor Moderne Kunst

Arnhem.

(in German). Kulturamt Frankfurt am Main: Abteilung Kunst im

öffentlichen Raum. Accessed September 2017.

Roberta Smith (26 September 1997),

Samantha Conti (2 February 2021),

art-in.de

(in German)

. Retrieved

3 August

2025

Holland Cotter (5 June 2013),

Judith H. Dobrzynski (17 June 1999),

Barbara Engelbach (2005).

Rosemarie Trockel: Post-menopause

(exhibition catalogue). Köln: Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst am

Museum Ludwig.

Jörg Scheller (9 April 2015).

Frieze

. Archived 28 November 2020.

Rosemarie Trockel, Yilmaz Dziewior, Sabine Bürger, Tim Beeby, Volker Ellerbeck (2015).

Märzôschnee ûnd Wiebôrweh sand am

Môargô niana më

(exhibition catalogue). [Bregenz]: Kunsthaus Bregenz.

Matthew Rana (31 October 2018).

Frieze

Archived 2 November 2020.

Iris Müller-Westermann (editor) (2019).

Rosemarie Trockel: The Same Different

(exhibition catalogue). Malmö: Moderna Museet

Malmö; London, Köln: Koenig Books.