Ulrike Rosenbach. today is tomorrow

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To mark her 80th birthday, the ZKM | Karlsruhe is presenting a major exhibition on the work of media artist Ulrike Rosenbach. Ulrike Rosenbach was one of the first artists in Germany to use the medium of video — as early as the beginning of the 1970s. In her works, she addresses questions of female identity, gender-specific role attributions, and the holistic relationship between humans and nature.

Ulrike Rosenbach’s early performances, in which she experiments with video’s technical capabilities of direct recording, storage and playback of videos, sometimes attaching cameras to her body, received wide international acclaim. Through her participation in landmark exhibitions such as documenta 6 (1977) and documenta 8 (1987), Rosenbach became the most renowned German performance and video artist of her time.

»Ulrike Rosenbach. today is tomorrow« is part of a series of exhibitions at the ZKM that honor the important work of a pioneering generation of media artists. The exhibition will also be presented in the context of the ZKM program focus »Female Perspectives«.