Education and Mediation

Once a month, art mediator and designer Roland Knieg invites visitors on a tour focussing on the interventions in the Fridericianum. As part of the Interventions series, artists develop site-specific works for the Fridericianum that – beyond the regular exhibition spaces – activate, accentuate or transform the previously unused intermediate areas and circulation areas of the building. These installations include wall paintings, outdoor sculptures and sound installations that remain in the building for a longer period of time or even permanently. In October, art educator Roland Knieg will focus on the espresso and cappuccino cups that German artist Rosemarie Trockel (*1952) designed especially for the Fridericianum. Trockel’s multi-layered and experimental works often extend beyond the exhibition space into the private and public sphere. The cups with the lettering no Rules and Victoria evoke a variety of references: Is it about borderless art? Exploitation in coffee cultivation? About victories and losses? Or feminist stereotypes that should finally be thrown overboard?

Rosemarie Trockel, born in Schwerte in 1952, was the first artist to exhibit in the German Pavilion at the Biennale di Venezia in 1999. Two years earlier, she presented the House for Pigs and People at documenta 10 together with the artist Carsten Höller. Trockel has been dealing with socio-political issues in her work since the 1980s and reflects on patriarchal structures in the art system. She works with a variety of media and genres, ranging from objects, collages and drawings to videos, photographs, ceramics and knitwear.

Admission fee: 3 Euro.
Registration is not required.