The Berlin-based artist Julian Rosefeldt (b. 1965 in Munich, Germany) studied Architecture in Munich and Barcelona (MA, 1994). He is internationally renowned for his visually opulent and meticulously choreographed moving image artworks, mostly presented as complex multi-screen installations. Inspired equally by the histories of film, art, and popular culture, Rosefeldt uses familiar cinematic tropes to carry viewers into surreal, theatrical realms, where the inhabitants are absorbed by the rituals of everyday life, employing humour and satire to seduce audiences into familiar worlds made strange. Rosefeldt holds a professorship of Media Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich since 2011.

Recent solo shows were held at Völklinger Hütte Völklingen, Germany (2022); Park Avenue Armory, New York, USA (2016, 2022), Museum MACAN, Jakarta, Indonesia (2020); Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, USA (2019); The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (2019); Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles, USA (2018); Musée d’Art Contemporain Montréal, Montreal, Canada (2018); Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark (2017); HOW Art Museum, Shanghai (2017), Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany (2016); Sprengel Museum Hanover, Germany (2016); and ACMI – Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia (2015). Recent group shows include Kunstforum Vienna, Austria (2020); Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel (2018); and 1st Riga Biennial (2018).

Collections including his works, a.o.: Museum of Modern Art New York, Goetz Collection Munich, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Nationalgalerie Berlin, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, CIFO – Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, and Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.

Julian Rosefeldt was represented by KÖNIG GALERIE from 2017 to 2023.

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