Mika Rottenberg
All works in the collection (2)
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Title: Lampshare (wall piece 5)
Year: 2025
Medium: Milled reclaimed household plastic / Lighting component: resin and electric hardware
Dimensions: 48.3 x 53.3 x 38.1 cm (19 x 21 x 15 in) -
Title: Lampshare (bx 1.4)
Year: 2025
Medium: Milled reclaimed household plastic and plant / Lighting component: resin and electric hardware
Dimensions: 91.4 x 83.3 x 86.4 cm (36 x 32 3/4 x 34 in)
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1976. Rottenberg graduated from HaMidrasha, Beit Berl College (Israel) in 1998 and from the School of Visual Arts (NY) in 2000, and received an MFA from Columbia University (NY) in 2004. Rottenberg is currently based in NY. Through video, installation and sculpture, Rottenberg brings an incisive critique to human labor and physicality in capitalist society. Rottenberg's work has been presented in numerous international exhibitions, including the Whitney Biennial (2008), the Venice Biennale (2015) and Skulptur Projekte Münster (2017), as well as in many solo exhibitions at major contemporary art museums around the world, and Rottenberg's first feature film, "REMOTE" (2022), premiered at Tate Modern (London). Awards include the Kurt Schwitters Prize (2019) and the Smithsonian American Art Museum's James Dicke Contemporary Artist Prize (2018). The works are in the collections of important museums around the world, including MoMA, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Tate Modern, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Denmark) and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (Israel).
