Martha Rosler

Biography Martha Rosler (Brooklyn, New York, US, 1943)
Martha Rosler’s work includes video, photo-text, installation, performance, and writing. She has lectured extensively in the United States and internationally. Her work in the public sphere, often with an eye to women’s experience, ranges from the link between social life and the media to architecture and the built environment, from housing and homelessness to systems of transport.
Her work has been shown at the 2003 Venice Biennale, the 2004 Liverpool Biennial, the 2004 Taipei Biennial, the 2007 Documenta and several Whitney biennials. She has had numerous solo exhibitions. A retrospective of her work, Positions in the Life World, was shown in five European cities and concurrently at the International Center of Photography and the New Museum for Contemporary Art (1998-2000).
Rosler has published numerous essays and books of photography, art, and writing. Among them are Decoys and Disruptions: Selected Essays 1975-2001 (MIT Press, 2004); Passionate Signals (Cantz, 2005); In the Place of the Public: Airport Series (Cantz, 1997); and Rites of Passage (NYFA, 1995). Rosler has been awarded the Spectrum International Prize for Photography in 2005, which was accompanied by a photo and video retrospective at the Sprengel Museum in Hanover and at NGBK in Berlin.

Participated in:

Home Screen Home

The exhibition Home Screen Home is organized in conjunction with the 27th International Film Festival Rotterdam. Home Screen Homepresents video works made for the television screen, ranging from critical tapes of the sixties and seventies to recent music videos and commercials. Makers …Read more

 

Occupying Space

Three Rotterdam institutions show a unique collection of visual art This summer Witte de With, TENT. and the Nederlands fotomuseum are showing a selection from the art collection of the Austrian Generali Foundation. Since the late 1980s Generali has been …Read more

 

BODYPOLITICX

Why does pornography have such a bad reputation? BODYPOLITCX is an international group exhibition – with extensive sideprogramme of debates, performances and workshops – seeing sex through the eyes of over 70 artists, film-makers, activists, photo-journalists, musicians and magazine editors. …Read more

 

Two in One

Witte de With and de Appel arts centre (Amsterdam) jointly present Two in One, a benefit auction of 100 works by internationally acclaimed contemporary artists to benefit new projects. You are invited to participate in this fundraising adventure, to be held …Read more