Julian Rosefeldt’s Global Soap project is a vast collection of soap opera images archiving housewives’ favourites from all over the globe. Highlighting the TV template of formulaic plotlines and fluency in the universal language of schmaltz, Rosefeldt’s Soap photos present multiple panels of characters playing out identikit roles. Cropped to the format of actor’s publicity shots, the groupings of Rosefeldt’s subjects read like multi-national casting calls for archetypal villains and victims.
BIOGRAPHY
1965
Born in Munich, Germany
Lives and works in Berlin
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005
Galería Leyyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
Asylum, part of the theatre festival Spielart, Haus der Kunst, Munich
The Soundmaker, Arndt & Partner, Zürich
Trilogy of Failure, ZKMax, München
2004
Trilogy of Failure, Kunst-Werke, Berlin
Asylum, Festival d’Avignon, Avignon, France
Baltic, The Centre for Contemporary
Art, Gateshead/Newcastle
Spike Island, Bristol
Max Wigram Gallery, London
2003
Asylum, Chulalongkorn Art Gallery, Bangkok
Atlantis Space, London
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2003
Rituale, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Melodrama, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo, Spain
2002
Beckmann – un peintre dans l’histoire,
Centre National Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria, Spain
Centro José Guerriero, Granata
Architourism, Columbia University/Buell Center, New York
2001
Tele[vision] – Kunst sieht fern, Kunsthalle Vienna
De Schoonheid van het Kwaad, De Zonnehof, Amersfoort, Netherlands
2000
Multiple Sensat
Die Entfernung der Fotografie, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
1999
Wohin kein Auge reicht, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
1998
Deep Storage – Arsenale der Erinnerung, Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf
P.S.1, New York
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
Performing Buildings, Tate Gallery of Modern Art, London
1997
Deep Storage – Arsenale der Erinnerung, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Nationalgalerie/ Kulturforum Berlin
Article Theme :-
Rosefeldt’s project issues of racial and national difference give way to the fashion of globalised sameness. The perception of ‘other’ is removed from ethnic preconception with each figure identified through their familiar dramatic parts rather than their outward appearance.
Read Entire Article about Artist Julian Rosefeldt paintings and artwork at The Saatchi-Gallery http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/julian_rosefeldt.htm
