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Miguel Rothschild

Works

Exhibitions

Publications
  • Miguel Rothschild, Hatje Cantz , 2015
    Hatje Cantz, 2015

    Miguel Rothschild

    Nothing is sacred to Miguel Rothschild. The Berlin-based Argentinian artist (*1963) likes to play with set pieces from church history and with perceptual conventions: photographs of cathedral rosettes are perforated for his surprising visual objects or hung with colored fishing line—the glass Madonnas flutter from the wall like confetti or colorful rain. In the series The Birds, Rothschild populates scenes from Hitchcock's movie with turtledoves from art history, with a highly sinister result. He builds games of skill from confessional lattices; the challenge is to attempt the impossible and place one of the countless balls on each cross. He even simulates the big bang using symbols and signs from comic strips on painted canvas—in the beginning was the word? Rothschild appropriates art-historical icons in a refreshingly disrespectful way, liberates them from status and role, and in doing so relies on the subversive force of laughter.

    184 pages
    24,5 × 29,5 cm
    Hatje Cantz, 2015
    ISBN 978-3-7757-4024-1
    Euro 49,80

Biography

Miguel Rothschild was born in 1963 in Buenos Aires. From 1982-1987 he studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires. Between 1991 and 1994 he studied at the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin and graduated with a master of arts. Miguel Rothschild lives and works in Buenos Aires, RA and Berlin, Germany.

Grants and Awards

  • 2010

    • Invited as guest at the artist residence Villa Aurora, Los Angeles, CA

  • 2008

    • Artist in residence at Civitella Ranieri Center, Italy. Grant from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, New York

    • Grant of the Stiftung Kunstfonds, Germany

  • 2007

    • Artist in residence at Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf, grant from the Department for Economy, Research and Culture of the State of Brandenburg, Germany

  • 2005

    • Rosa de Luxe, Monument for Rosa Luxemburg, 2nd prize (with Maria Cecilia Barbetta), Senate for Science and Culture, Berlin, Germany

  • 2003

    • Grant from the Senate for Science and Culture, Berlin, Germany

  • 2001

    • Grant from the Kulturfond Foundation, Germany

  • 2000

    • Karl Hofer Prize, Prize for Art and Science from the University of Arts, Berlin, Germany

  • 1998

    • Artist in Residence at Künstlerhaus Schloss Plüschow, grant from the State of Mecklenburg, Germany

  • 1997

    • Grant from the Kulturfond Foundation, Germany

  • 1996

    • Prize of the Karl-Hofer-Gesellschaft, Atelierpreis 1996, Berlin, Germany

  • 1995

    • Studio Grant of the Karl-Hofer-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany

    • Artist in residence at Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf, grant from the Kulturfond Foundation, Germany

Solo Shows

  • 2023

    • Die Ewigkeit der Nacht, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin, Germany

    • La Eternidad de la Noche, Galería Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, Argentina

  • 2021

    • Premonition, Bendana-Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France

  • 2019

    • Miguel Rothschild, Maison de l'Amérique latine, Paris, France

    • Geist, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin

  • 2018

    • De profundis, St. Matthäus-Kirche, Berlin

    • camera chiara, Stiftung St. Matthäus, Evangelisches Zentrum Berlin

  • 2017

    • Elegie, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin

  • 2016

    • Contre vents et marées, Bendana-Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France

    • Cuarenta dias y cuarenta noches, Galería Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, Argentina

  • 2014

    • Buenos Aires, Galerie Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin

  • 2012

    • Images de la Mélancolie, Bendana-Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France

    • Happy Believers, Galerie Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin

    • Felices los que creen sin haber visto, Galería Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, Argentina

  • 2010

    • Als der Himmel Sterne sah, Franke-von Oppen, Berlin, Germany

  • 2009

    • The Messiah Fights Back, Langage Plus, Montreal, Canada

    • The Messiah Fights Back, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany

  • 2008

    • 33 traurige Tragödien, Kunstraum Potsdam, Germany

    • Le ciel qui a vu des etoiles, Bendana-Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France

    • Con penas ni gloria, Galería Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    • Miguel Rothschild plays Miguel Rothschild. Two tragic movies, 5533, Istanbul, Turkey

  • 2006

    • New works and some special offers, Galerie Barnoud, Dijon, France

  • 2005

    • Celestial, Galería Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, Argentina

  • 2004

    • Centre Régional d'Art Contemporain, Montbéliard, France

    • Paradis, Musée de la Chartreuse, Douai, France

    • Himmlisch, Galerie Hengevoss Dürkop, Hamburg, Germany

  • 2002

    • Mirta Demare, Ruimte voor actuele kunst, Rotterdam, Netherlands

  • 2001

    • Lágrimas asesinas, Galería Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    • Exhibition Karl Hofer Prize, Medienhaus der Hdk, Berlin, Germany

  • 2000

    • Killer Tears, Museumsakademie Berlin, Germany

    • Foto/Graphik Galerie, Käthe Kollwitz, Berlin, Germany

    • Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Argentina

    • Killer Tears, Galerie Hengevoss und Jensen, Hamburg, Germany

  • 1998

    • Projekt Paradies, Ideen shop/Wollantik, Berlin, Germany

    • If you leave me, could you let me go with you?, Galerie Sandmann und Haak, Hanover, Germany

    • Galerie Jorge Alyskewycz (in cooperation with Jorge Macchi), Paris, France

  • 1997

    • Die Tränen, die sind vergebens, Westwerk, Hamburg, Germany

Group Shows

  • 2022

    • Echos, Pavillon am Milchhof, Berlin

    • Schwarz ist keine Farbe, HilbertRaum, Berlin

    • Wavelength: At the Moment, Chongqing Times Art Museum, Chongqing, China

  • 2021

    • Oil: Beauty and Horror in the Petrol Age, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany

    • Wavelength: At the Moment, Times Art Museum, Beijing, China

  • 2020

    • In aller Munde – Von Pieter Bruegel bis Cindy Sherman, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany

    • SEE Stücke. Fakten und Fiktion, Museum Kunst der Westküste, Alkersum, Germany

    • SEE Stücke. Fakten und Fiktion, Alfred Erhard Stiftung, Berlin, Germany

    • Family Business. Erinnern als künstlerisches Motiv, Stiftung Neue Synagoge Berlin – Centrum Judaicum, Berlin, Germany

  • 2019

    • Gold, Schloßmediale Werdenberg, Werdenberg, Schweiz

    • Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art, Zhejiang Art Museum, China

  • 2018

    • Hogar Dulce Hogar (hábitos artísticos contemporáneos), Muntref Museo de Artes Visuales, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    • 3654 Days after, Pendant Panel – Art Contemporain, Paris, France

    • Die Zahl als Chiffre in der Kunst, Art Foyer DZ Bank Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany

    • Sea of Desire, Foundation Carmignac, Porquerolles, France

  • 2017

    • BienalSur, Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporaneo de América del Sur, Casa del Bicentenario, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    • Naturalezza Refugio y recurso del hombre, CCK, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    • Yves Klein, Retrospectiva, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    • Evidences du réel, Musée d'art de Pully

    • Rorschach – an Experiment, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin

  • 2016

    • Passion – Fan Behavior and art, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Kiel, Germany

    • Passion – Fan Behavior and art, Ludwig Múzeum Budapest, Hungary

    • Collection Géotec, La Conciergerie Art Contemporain, La Motte-Servolex, France

    • Northbound / Southbound, Bendana-Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France

  • 2015

    • Passion – Fan Behavior and art, Kunsthaus Nürnberg, Germany

    • Passion – Fan Behavior and art, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

    • Blue Moon. Licht als Atmosphere, Kunsthalle HGN, Duderstadt, Germany

    • Apokalypse, Rohkunstbau-exhibition, Schloß Roskow, Germany

  • 2014

    • Ecrin, LAC&S, Limoges / F

    • Bendana-Pinel Art Contemporain c/o Galleri Charlotte Lund, Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm, Sweden

  • 2013

    • 1825 days, Bendana-Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France

    • Art & Entreprise#1, Collection Géotec, Quetigny, France

  • 2012

    • Religion und Riten, DZ Bank Kunstsammlung, Frankfurt, Germany

    • Dot.System. From Pointillism to Pixelation, Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany

    • Palabras, imágenes y otros textos, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Argentina

    • Examples to follow! Expeditions in aesthetics and sustainability, Premchand Roychand Gallery, Mumbai, India

  • 2011

    • How German is it? 30 Artists Notion of Home, Jüdisches Museum Berlin, Germany

    • Art of the 90s in Malba Collection. Works 1989 -2010, Malba – Fundación Costantini, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Argentina

    • Examples to follow! Expeditions in aesthetics and sustainability, Virginia Haus / Überseequartier / Hafencity, Hamburg, Germany

    • Examples to follow! Expeditions in aesthetics and sustainability, Schwankhalle and Wasserturm, Bremen, Germany

    • Examples to follow! Expeditions in aesthetics and sustainability, Bauhaus Dessau, Germany

    • Examples to follow! Expeditions in aesthetics and sustainability, Kunstverein Pfaffenhofen, Kunstverein Ingolstadt and Städtische Galerie Neuburg a.d. Donau, Germany

    • Examples to follow! Expeditions in aesthetics and sustainability, Westwendischer Kunstverein, Gartow, Germany

    • Adquisiciones, donaciones y comodatos, Malba – Fundación Costantini, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Argentina

  • 2010

    • Transatlantic Impulses, Akademie der Künste Hanseatenweg, Berlin / D

    • Ich Wicht, Kunstraum Potsdam, Germany

    • Realidad y Utopía, 200 Years of Argentine Art, A Vision from the Present, Akademie der Künste am Brandenburger Tor, Berlin, Germany

    • Examples to follow! Expeditions in aesthetics and sustainability, Uferhallen, Berlin, Germany

    • Aasan, Ekici, Rothschild. Projects, Fraunhofer-Institut, Potsdam, Germany

    • Berlin Transfer, Berlinische Galerie, State Museum of Modern Art, Photography and Architecture, Berlin, Germany

  • 2009

    • Maquinas de mirar, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, Spain

    • Visual Tactics, Mücsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary

    • Zeigen. An Audio Tour through Berlin by Karin Sander, Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, Germany

    • En découdre, Fondation Ecureuil, Toulouse, France

    • 365 days, Bendana-Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France

  • 2008

    • Blickmaschinen, Museum of Contemporary Art Siegen, Germany

    • Unsterblich! Der Kult des Künstlers, State Museums of Berlin, Kulturforum Berlin, Germany

    • Glück. Welches Glück, Deutsches Hygiene Museum Dresden, Germany

    • Manipulate, Roxy Event Platformu, Istanbul, Turkey

    • Subtil Textil, Galerie des galeries aux Galeries Lafayette, Paris, France

  • 2007

    • ABC der Bilder, Pergamon Museum, Berlin, Germany

    • Body Media, International Interactive Art Exhibition, O Art Center, Shanghai, China

    • Neue Heimat – Berlin Contemporary, Berlinische Galerie, State Museum of Modern Art, Photography and Architecture, Berlin, Germany

    • Look@me!, KunstQuartier 2007, Berlin, Germany

    • Reunião, Baginski galería, Lisbon, Portugal

  • 2006

    • Association ART-CADE – Galerie des Grands Bains Douches de la Plaine, Marseille, France

    • Arquivar Tormentas, Colections ARCO and CGAC, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

    • The Flip Book Show, Fotomuseum Provincie Antwerpen, Belgium

    • Anstoss Berlin, Kunst macht Welt, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany

    • Happy Believers, 7. Werkleitz Biennial, Halle, Germany

    • Urban Appearances, Video Parcour in the Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin, Germany

    • Secret and Public, Contemporary Art Projects Anke Blashofer, Berlin, Germany

  • 2005

    • Daumenkino, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany

    • Zur Kasse bitte!, Ludwig Forum Aachen, Germany

    • Reisen ins Paradies, Kunsthalle Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany

    • Permanent zeitgenössisch, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany

    • Künstler. Archiv, Akademie der Künste am Brandenburger Tor, Berlin, Germany

  • 2004

    • Retrospective presented in the 1. International flipbook Festival, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany

    • A vendre, Interface appatament/galerie, Dijon, France

    • Ouvrir couvrir, Christian Aubert – Moments artistiques, Paris, France

    • Cinémas du futur, Euralille, Lille 2004 – Capitale Européenne de la Culture, Lille, France

    • SuperYo, Malba – Fundación Costantini, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Argentina

  • 2003

    • Peters, Moriceau, Rothschild, éof, Paris, France

    • witterung.stromaufwärts, Festival Rümlingen, Rümlingen – Basel, CH

  • 2002

    • Ultimas tendencias, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Argentina

    • The Lausanne Underground Film Festival, Cinematheque Suisse, Lausanne, CH

    • Les cinémas du futur, festival Via, Maubeuge, France

    • Les cinémas du futur, festival Exil, Créteil, France

    • La fotografia contemporanea latinoamericana da new york a santiago del cile, Galleria dell' Istituto Italo-Latinoamericano, Roma, Italy

  • 2001

    • Reality Check, Photography triennial, Galerie Hengevoss & Jensen, Hamburg, Germany

    • Museumsakademie – Galerie Helen Adkins, Berlin, Germany

    • Premio Banco Nación, Sala Cronopios, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina

  • 2000

    • Search for art, Bovisa space, Milan, Italy

    • Continental Shift, Ludwig Forum Aachen, Germany

    • Macchi, Rios, Rothschild, Galería Mario Flecha, Girona, Spain

    • Concurrents units, Kunstraum B-2, Leipzig, Germany

  • 1999

    • Arte Fotográfico Argentino, Collectión of the Museum of Modern Art Buenos Aires, Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    • Sight seeing, Künstlerhaus Schoss Plüschow, Germany

    • Borges.es, Casa de las Américas, Madrid, Spain

    • Stil in motion, LipanjePuntin arte contemporanea, Triest, Italy

Public Collections

    • Berlinische Galerie, State Museum of Modern Art, Photography and Architecture, Berlin

    • State Museums of Berlin (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin), Book and Media Collection, Berlin

    • Malba, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano, Buenos Aires

    • MAMBA, Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires

    • DZ Bank Art Collection, Frankfurt

    • CGAC, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela

    • Jüdisches Museum, Berlin

    • Foundation Carmignac, Paris

    • Hermès Art Collection, Paris

    • Rin Art Foundation, Tokio

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