The Friends of the Staatsgalerie - Stuttgarter Galerieverein acquired MANIFESTO by Julian Rosefeldt in 2016. The Staatsgalerie expressed its gratitude for this spectacular new acquisition with an elaborate staging of the 13-part film installation.
Rosefeldt's latest work pays homage to the artist manifesto of Dada, Fluxus, Pop Art, Conceptual Art to Dogma 95 and questions the role of art in modernity. By shortening and combining these historical writings, poetic text collages were created, spoken and embodied by actress Cate Blanchett in 13 different roles. Whether as the choreographer of a dance ensemble, an elementary school teacher, a funeral orator, a factory worker, a stockbroker or a homeless man, these characters always bring the historical manifestos into today's everyday world. The formulations and demands assert themselves in their new environments and prove surprisingly current. The radicality of the texts, Rosefeldt's imagery and Blanchett's mutability condense in MANIFESTO into an orchestral harmony of overwhelming beauty and explosiveness.
MANIFESTO is a joint production of the Australian Centre for the Moving Image Melbourne, the Art Gallery of New South Wales Sydney, the Nationalgalerie - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and the Sprengel Museum Hannover. The project was co-produced by the Ruhrtriennale and the Burger Collection Hong Kong. It was created thanks to the generous support of Medienboards Berlin-Brandenburg and in cooperation with Bayerischer Rundfunk.
Biografie Julian Rosefeldt
Berlin-based artist Julian Rosefeldt is internationally known for his visually opulent and meticulously staged film works, most of which are complex multi-channel installations. Inspired equally by the history of film and popular culture, Rosefeldt makes use of familiar film clichés to transport the viewer into surreal, staged situations whose protagonists appear wholly absorbed in the rituals of everyday life. With humor and satire, Rosefeldt lures the viewer into supposedly familiar, yet alienated worlds.
Exhibition catalog
The exhibition is accompanied by a lavishly illustrated catalog in German and English published by König Books London with all texts as well as contributions by Burcu Dogramaci, Anna-Catharina Gebbers / Udo Kittelmann, Reinhard Spieler and an interview with the artist by Sarah Tutton and Justin Paton.
ISBN: 978-3-86335-855-6
24,90 € in the museum store (bookstore price 39,80 €)