Mika rottenberg, jupiter artland foundation, edinburgh, uk, may 15 july 23 2014 bowls balls souls holes, andrea rosen gallery, new york, ny, may 7 june 14 mika rottenberg. Rottenberg has taken video art a medium often prone to excruciating longueurs. As in the past, rottenbergs latest effort explores the realm of cause and effect, combining david lynchs surrealism with rube goldberg type contraptions. Bowls balls souls holes, andrea rosen gallery, new york, ny solo exhibition mika rottenberg. Video works by mika rottenberg, jerusalem, israel magasin 3, sneeze to squeeze, stockholm, sweden. In her exhibition bowls balls souls holes at sprueth magers in berlin, rottenberg investigates the cyclical nature of luck under the auspices of capitalistic culture. Rottenberg s most recent work, bowls balls souls holes, was heralded by the new york times. Rose art museum, this volume offers a comprehensive look at the career of mika rottenberg born 1976.
Photo by lance brewer, courtesy andrea rosen gallery each clothespin just barely makes it to the next step in its journey. Bowls balls souls holes investigates causeandeffect phenomena less easily traceable, such as quantum entanglement, magnetic fields, global warming, and the production of luck. Bowls balls souls holes, the manhattan expansion of a current exhibition at bostons rose art museum, is her seventh institutional solo show in three years. Its a mindstretching trip through time and space, from the action in a harlem bingo parlor to. Commodification and absurdity are, in fact, behind much of the work created by this diminutive shes only 5foot2 artist who, after a solidly successful 15year career, is now poised to take the art world by storm. Bowls balls souls holes will be accompanied by an exhibition catalogue that will be published in may 2014, featuring essays by christopher bedford, julia bryan wilson, and wayne koestenbaum. Featuring regulars of the bingo hall primarily women as well as gary stretch turner, the guinness world record holder for the most clothespins pinned to ones face one hundred sixtyone, the video imagines different possibilities for what. In a conversation with rose art museum director christopher bedford.
Mika rottenbergs show, bowls balls souls holes, is one of several firstrate exhibits that recently opened at the rose. The expanded variant bowls balls souls holes hotel was first exhibited as part of an exhibition on view at the rose art museum from february 14june 8, 2014. Mika rottenberg biography mika rottenberg on artnet. Mika rottenberg presented new and existing work in an exhibition that ran throughout seven galleries in goldsmiths cca. Are we waiting for an apparatus of wonder to operate with relentless irritation. Mika rottenberg concocts eminently imaginative videos and installations, from which new, strange worlds only slightly askew from our own. Mika rottenberg bowls balls souls holes exhibition at. In this exhibition, three works by mika rottenberg explore concepts of gender, race and class through everyday materials and narratives. Bowls balls souls holes at the rose art museum provides a comprehensive account of the artists conceptual interests and material sensibilities.
Surreal glimpses of the absurd labor of global capitalism. Courtesy of the artist and the collection of jill and peter kraus. The production of luck featured image is a detail from the installation bowls balls souls holes 2014, produced for mika rottenberg s recent exhibition at the rose art museum and reproduced here from the accompanying publication, the production of luck. The dazzling absurdities of capitalism mika rottenberg. In the videos of mika rottenberg, all the elements act as accessories of a dysfunctional world. Still from mika rottenberg, bowls balls souls holes bingo variant, 2014. Bowls balls souls holes 2014 the movie database tmdb. On display are a series of recent video installations as well as some of her earlier video installations that put her on the map, including nonoseknows 2015, bowls balls souls holes.
Bowls balls souls holes the rose art museum at brandeis university, waltham, ma. Featuring two new films, rottenberg responded to the building incorporating purposebuilt installations alongside sculptural objects. Given her fascination with eccentric forms of labor, i was curious what jobs rottenberg herself had in the past. Rottenbergs show, bowls balls souls holes, is one of several firstrate exhibits that recently opened at the rose. Creating physical experience that transcends the autonomous object and cinematic medium, filmmaker mika rottenberg guides us through elaborately constructed physical and metaphysical environments. Mika rottenberg makes experiential, immersive, performative video works displayed in.
The show will feature nonoseknows 2015 lauded at the 56th venice biennale bowls balls souls holes, 2014, seven. Both of these elements figure heavily into her central video work bowls balls souls holes 2014. Bowls balls souls holes takes visitors past a variety of kinetic sculptures made from everyday items before ushering them toward a looping 28minute video. A drip from a rotting ceiling, which periodically rouses a slumberous bingoplayer in the video bowls balls souls holes, reappears in two of the exhibitions installations. Bowls balls souls holes from the press release coinciding with a major solo exhibition at the rose art museum in boston, her seventh significant solo institutional exhibition in three years, as well as the release of a comprehensive monograph, andrea rosen gallery is thrilled to announce our first exhibition of mika rottenberg since beginning to represent her in 2012.
Mika rottenbergs exhibition affirms her stature as one of the most original and imaginative video makers working today. Bowls balls souls holes dazzling, wildly fanciful, and tautly constructed video installations that combine chutes, shafts, bingo balls, big bodies, and much more by the usbased. Mika rottenberg follow untitled, 2014 porcelain lampholder, 11 watt light bulb, electrical system, orange peel spray texture, tinfoil, gum, acrylic paint. Presented on high line channel 14, bowls balls souls holes is inspired by what the artist terms the production of luck, and is set primarily inside a bingo hall in harlem that rottenberg frequented during her research for the piece. It tackles what she calls the production of luck, using the numerical and gambling components of bingo as catalysts. Mika rottenberg, video still from bowls balls souls holes bingo, 2014. Mika rottenberg was born in buenos aires, argentina in 1976, and raised in israel. Bowls balls souls holes by mika rottenberg at spruth. About rottenberg is known for her sitespecific video spaces that repurpose her film sets as sculptural assemblages to frame, contain and extend her otherworldly videos. Rottenberg is best known for her surreal video and installation work that often deals with the subject of female labor. Multimedia artist mika rottenberg receives the 2014 ruth ann and nathan perlmutter artistinresidence award from brandeis universitys rose art museum.
Courtesy of the artist and the collection of jill and peter kraus installation view. Bowls balls souls holes, the rose art museum, brandeis university, waltham, ma solo exhibition taipei biennial 2014, curated by nicolas bourriaud, taipei, taiwan. Bingo balls sizzle with the sound of fortune for the unfortunate. The salvo is a shot in the arm for the institution, signaling another step up. Bowls balls souls holes was created with the support of the rose art museum. Multimedia artist receives ruth ann and nathan perlmutter. The show will feature nonoseknows 2015 lauded at the 56th venice biennale bowls balls souls holes, 2014, seven 2011 and squeeze 2010, while. Mika rottenberg, tsss 20 air conditioner, plant, hotplate, frying pan, water dimensions variable. Established through the generosity of ruth ann perlmutter left and given in recognition of an emerging artists achievement, the award allows the museum to bring young artists on the cusp of national and international acclaim to brandeis. Video and sculptural installation, 27 min 54 s, dimensions variable. Currently on view at andrea rosen gallery is the expanded variant bowls balls souls holes bingo. Bowls balls souls holes at the rose art museum provides a comprehensive account of the artists conceptual interests and material sensibilities to date. Mika rottenberg s eccentric visual narratives use video and sculpture to create relations among seemingly unrelated economies, collapsing space, time and subjectivities.
Bowls balls souls holes, the rose art museum, brandeis university, waltham, ma. Mika rottenberg, bowls balls souls holes art in new york. View images of the exhibition and selected artworks. The centerpiece is a delirious 28minute movie called bowls balls souls holes. Mika rottenberg bowls balls souls holes at spruth magers, berlin. The brooklyn rail is a journal committed to providing an independent forum for visual arts, culture, and politics throughout new york city and beyond. Featuring regulars of the bingo hall primarily women as well as gary stretch turner, the.
Press release for immediate release mika rottenberg. In bowls balls souls holes 2014, filmed in part in a harlem bingo hall, they fit into a welloiled mechanism and framework where confined spaces, slots and holes are used as frames to divide the absurd tasks whose purpose escapes the spectator. Rottenbergs exhibition affirms her stature as one of the most original and imaginative video makers working today. Mika rottenberg bowls balls souls holes at spruth magers. Writer for the publication, ken johnson stated that its a mindstretching trip through time and space, from the action in a harlem bingo parlor to the melting of ice in a polar sea and from a seedy urban hotel under a full moon to the. For over a decade, the artist has followed wherever her curiosity leadsfrom the lettuce farmers of squeeze to harlem bingo halls, the setting for bowls balls souls holes 2014. A multicoloured world of dreck and drudgery, female wrestlers and fake fingernails is revealed in rottenberg s mysterious labyrinthine sculpture and video. Mika rottenberg bowls balls souls holes the brooklyn rail. Mika rottenberg born 1976 is a contemporary argentineisraeli video artist who lives and works in new york city.
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