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Rosemarie Trockel was born in Schwerte near Dortmund in 1952. In 1971 she began studying anthropology, sociology, theology and mathematics at the Pädagogische Hochschule [college of education] in Cologne with the aim of becoming a teacher. In 1974, she switched to the Cologne Werkschule [School of Arts and Crafts] and studied painting with Werner Schriefers until 1978. Two years later, she travelled through the USA and met artists Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger and Cindy Sherman. Trockel’s diverse oeuvre encompasses painting, graphics, sculpture, video work and installations, often focusing on “womanhood” and taking a critical look at the art world. Trockel has attracted considerable attention since the late 1980s, especially in the USA, where she has held exhibitions at MoMA in New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. She also enjoys great success in Europe. In 1997 she took part in documenta X in Kassel, and in 1999 she was the first woman to exhibit in the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Rosemarie Trockel has been a professor at the Kunstakademie [Academy of Fine Arts] in Düsseldorf since 1998, and was a founder member of the Akademie der Künste der Welt [Academy of the Arts of the World] in Cologne in 2012.
Rosemarie Trockel was born in Schwerte near Dortmund in 1952. In 1971 she began studying anthropology, sociology, theology and mathematics at the Pädagogische Hochschule [college of education] in Cologne with the aim of becoming a teacher. In 1974, she switched to the Cologne Werkschule [School of Arts and Crafts] and studied painting with Werner Schriefers until 1978. Two years later, she travelled through the USA and met artists Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger and Cindy Sherman. Trockel’s diverse oeuvre encompasses painting, graphics, sculpture, video work and installations, often focusing on “womanhood” and taking a critical look at the art world. Trockel has attracted considerable attention since the late 1980s, especially in the USA, where she has held exhibitions at MoMA in New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. She also enjoys great success in Europe. In 1997 she took part in documenta X in Kassel, and in 1999 she was the first woman to exhibit in the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Rosemarie Trockel has been a professor at the Kunstakademie [Academy of Fine Arts] in Düsseldorf since 1998, and was a founder member of the Akademie der Künste der Welt [Academy of the Arts of the World] in Cologne in 2012.
