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Mika Rottenberg

Antimatter Factory

27.02.-10.08.25

Press Release (short version)
Mika Rottenberg
Antimatter Factory
Press conference: Wednesday, 26 February 2025
Mika Rottenberg (*1976) is a New York-based artist who combines film, architectonic installations and interactive kinetic objects in her practice to illustrate the absurdity of the seemingly limitless escalating production of goods and commodities in our contemporary hypercapitalist world. From pearl farming and food production through to the mass manufacturing of plastic articles in China, Rottenberg humorously points to the urgent need to spare resources, to consume less and live in a more sustainable manner.
The exhibition is a cooperation with the Museum Tinguely in Basel and the Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg.
Curators
Sophie Haslinger and Barbara Horvath
Biography
Mika Rottenberg was born in Buenos Aires in 1976 and grew up in Israel before moving to the USA in 2000. She studied at the School of Visual Arts and at Columbia University in New York. Rottenberg was awarded the Kurt Schwitters Prize in 2019 and the James Dicke Contemporary Artist Prize from the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 2018. The artist's work has been presented internationally in a number of solo exhibitions in recent years, including the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (2022), Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (2021), Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto (2020), Sprengel Museum Hannover (2020), Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2019), Kunsthaus Bregenz (2018) and Palais de Tokyo (2016). Rottenberg lives and works in New York.
Publication
The exhibition will be accompanied by an online catalogue that presents key themes in Rottenberg’s work via a playful navigation inspired by the artist’s aesthetic. Besides biographical and bibliographical information and exhibition views from the partner institutions Museum Tinguely (Basel), Kunst Haus Wien (Vienna) and Lehmbruck Museum (Duisburg), this online publication also brings together excerpts from video works and interviews with texts by Chen Qiufan, Heather Davis, Hsuan L. Hsu, Gunn Khatri, Barbara Latacz, Filipa Ramos, James Taylor-Foster, Mahyad Tousi, Mika Rottenberg and Roland Wetzel.
ONLINE CATALOGUE Mika Rottenberg. Antimatter Factory
Exhibition programme
Opening Evening: Wednesday 26 February 2025 from 17:00
Public tour of the Antimatter Factory
Sun 23.03.2025, 11:00
Sun 27.04.2025, 11:00, ÖGS guided tour
Sun 25.05.2025, 11:00
Sun 22.06.2025, 11:00
Sun 27.07.2025, 11:00
In German
Artist talk
Mika Rottenberg in conversation with the curator Barbara Horvath
Wed 26.02.2025, 18:00 - 19:00
in English
Film screening REMOTE
A feature film by Mika Rottenberg & Mahyad Tousi
Fri 07.03.2025, 18:00 - 19:30
Urania Cinema, Uraniastr. 1, 1010 Vienna
OmeU / Original with English subtitles, 91 min
In cooperation with VHS Wiener Urania Kino
Tickets via the Urania Kino website
Curator's tour
With Barbara Horvath
Sa 22.03.2025, 15:00 - 16:00
With Sophie Haslinger
Thu 08.05.2025, 18:00 - 19:00
In German
Future Talk: Climate x Change
Plastics and the consequences
Thu 10.04.2025, 18:00 - 19:30
In German
Children's holiday play: Fantastic Plastic Eaters
Mon - Wed 14.04 - 16.04.2025
10:30 - 12:00 & 13:00 - 14:30
In cooperation with WIENXTRA
In German
Workshop: Noodle Factory
With the collective Saliva
Sat 17.05.2025, 14:00 - 17:00
German and English
Tickets available at the Online Ticket Shop
Guided tour: In dialogue
With the transformation psychologist Irina Nalis
Wed 04.06.2025, 18:00 - 19:30
Tickets available at the Online Ticket Shop
Repair Café
Rethinking old clothes
Sat 08.08.2025, 15:30 - 19:00
In cooperation with Quartierszentrum 3, Wiener Hilfswerk
Free of charge, In German
Register here
Press Image Portrait Mika Rottenberg
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