Rosemarie Trockel

Made in China, 2008, glazed ceramic, 15 1/5 x 14 inches, private collection

“ROSEMARIE TROCKEL: A Cosmos,” curated by Lynne Cooke, encapsulates 30 years of the exuberantly prolific artist’s works. Included in the traveling exhibition are enigmatic ceramic sculptures presented against a midnight-blue wall: melted sculptural busts, aquatic bas reliefs, satellite images of earth, a narcissistic meteorite mirror, and more.

These ceramics are impossible to define and just as impossible to ignore, they linger in the mind like memento mori of a future civilization’s ruins.

photography by OLIVIER ZAHM
text by JENNY MOORE

The exhibition “Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos” does not take a traditional approach to the task of surveying the work of one of the most influential and confounding artists of the last 30 years. Trockel’s work and technique are far too diverse and idiosyncratic for that kind of treatment. Rather, the exhibition takes the…