MIKA ROTTENBERG, born in 1976 in Buenos Aires, raised in Israel, lives in New York. Her film installations deal with cycles of production and the circulation of goods. She is the recipient of many awards including the Kurt Schwitters Prize in 2019.
Selected solo exhibitions: Sprengel Museum, Hannover (2020), New Museum, New York, Museo d’Arte Moderna, Bologna (2019), Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London, Galerie Sprüth Magers, Berlin and Kunsthaus, Bregenz (2018). Participation in Skulptur Projekte, Münster (2017), 56th Venice Biennale (2015) and Performa 11, New York (2011)
KINO DER KUNST 2020
Spaghetti Blockchain
USA 2019, 18’15’’, OHNE DIALOG/NO DIALOGUE
KAMERA/CINEMATOGRAPHY: David Hollander
CAST: Tyva Kyzy, Tabia Wood, Fatima Jamal, Tal Ben Menashe
Landscapes, production processes and experimental arrangements result in a world of “social Surrealism” (Mika Rottenberg). Wobbly silicon cylinders, models of atoms made from plastic balls, melting foam and a model of spaghetti and marshmallows abstract the physical world. In a kaleidoscopic zoetrope, they intermingle with images of the Siberian plateau, traditional singers and the inner worlds of the Geneva particle accelerator. A symphony of images from mechanical, material and invisible worlds.
