Rosenbach's Nieces (2025)

For Rosenbach’s Nieces (2025), I invited artist friends from various cultural backgrounds to the studio to ask how they would reinterpret Ulrike Rosenbach’s Art is a Criminal Action (1972/96)—a re-staging of Warhol’s Double Elvis. Rosenbach’s role reversal raises enduring questions about gender, power, and visual heritage. Do artists still have to mirror patriarchal images, or is it time to create new images, or no images at all? The invited artists, who are active in both art and activism, explore this tension in dialogue and performance, creating a multi-layered reflection on feminist image-making, representation, and temporal ruptures.

Participating Artists: 

Elena Gavrisch, Luiza Prado O. Martins, Jasmina Metwaly, Nancy Naser Al Deen, Jules* Elting, Agata Guevara and Mikala Hyldig Dal.