Julian Rosefeldt

Julian Rosefeldt is one of the most important internationally known media artists  today. His elaborately staged film and video installations are shown in museum spaces, theaters and opera houses, cinemas, and postindustrial areas. His thirteen-channel film installation Manifesto with actress Cate Blanchett was critically acclaimed around the globe and received many prizes. C/O Berlin now presents a cross section of Rosefeldt’s work from the past thirty years in Making Of, which is the first major retrospective of the artist’s work to be shown in Berlin. Beginning with Rosefeldt’s architecture studies, early reportage photography, and theater work, the exhibition traces the genesis of his methodology that has taken shape over the years and his development toward cinematic fiction. Reoccurring themes such as the appropriation of archive material and found footage, the deconstruction of media stereotypes and visual tropes, and use of citations from cultural and film history are illuminated in addition to the confrontation with national myths and the absurdities of human existence. Alongside multichannel projections, photographs and context materials that have never been shown in public provide a look behind the scenes of his social reflections criticizing social and consumerism-related issues while revealing the construction mechanisms of narratives and film genres.