Ellen Rothenberg
PROTOTYP / MUSTER
13.09.25 bis 25.10.25
Vernissage
12.09.25 19:00
Leseprobe
19.10.25 um 16:00:
Auszüge aus der Ausstellungspublikation PROTOTYP/MUSTER
Leser*innen: Daniel Eisenberg, Jens Kleihauer, Bettina Klein, Felicitas Hentschke
Texte: Cindi Katz, Bettina Klein, Caroline Picard, Shawn Michelle Smith
Diese Publikation entstand anlässlich der Ausstellung von Ellen Rothenberg, PROTOTYP/MUSTER, vom 13. September bis zu 25. Oktober 2025 bei world in a room - projektraum für fotografie in Berlin.
Die Publikation „Prototyp/Muster“ wird finanziell gefördert vom Experimental Sound Studio mit Unterstützung der School of the Art Institute of Chicago, dem Demeter Fund und mit besonderem Dank an Kate Rabinowitz und Horst Schönig
Die Einzelausstellung PROTOTYP / MUSTER der amerikanischen Künstlerin Ellen Rothenberg präsentiert erstmals neue fotografische Arbeiten mit Bildern aus Chicago, Berlin und Marseille. Die Ausstellung verfolgt den beschleunigten Wandel zwischen analogen und digitalen Technologien in den Verbindungs- und Kommunikationssystemen im öffentlichen und privaten Raum. Dieser fluide, sich ständig verändernde technologische Wandel spiegelt sich in den fotografischen Bildsequenzen sowie den Produktions- und Reproduktionstechniken wider. Landschaftsfragmente und eine Greenscreen-Produktionsanlage für Spezialeffekte werden Überresten städtischer Infrastruktur gegenübergestellt; verlassene Münztelefone wechseln sich mit einer bewegungsgesteuerten LED-Projektion ab. Diese Arbeiten veranschaulichen unsere Verbundenheit mit anachronistischen Formen des alltäglichen Austauschs und die beunruhigende Anziehungskraft zukunftsweisender Möglichkeiten.
The solo exhibition, PROTOTYP/MUSTER by American artist Ellen Rothenberg premieres new photographic works with images from Chicago, Berlin and Marseille. The exhibition tracks the accelerating shift between analog and digital technologies on systems of connection and communication operating in public and private spheres. This slippery, ever-changing technological transition is reflected in the photographic image sequences and the techniques of production and reproduction. Fragments of landscape and a special effects green-screen production rig are juxtaposed with remnants of urban infrastructure; abandoned payphones alternate with a movement-triggered LED projection. These works detail our attachment to anachronistic forms of daily exchange and the anxious allure of future-facing possibilities.
Leseprobe - Reading Sample
October 19, 2025 at 16:00
Selections from the exhibition publication PROTOTYP/MUSTER
Readers: Daniel Eisenberg, Jens Kleihauer, Bettina Klein, Felicitas Hentschke
Texts: Cindi Katz, Bettina Klein, Caroline Picard, Shawn Michelle Smith
This publication was produced on the occasion of Ellen Rothenberg's solo exhibition,
Prototyp / Muster, September 12–November 8, 2025 at world in a room - projektraum für fotografie, Berlin.
The publication Prototyp /Muster is fiscally sponsored by Experimental Sound Studio with support from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Demeter Fund, with special thanks to Kate Rabinowitz and Horst Schönig.
Selected Exhibitions
2025 It Often Rhymes, The Current, A Center for Contemporary Art, Stowe, Vermont
2024 WORKS BY, Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
2023 For Those Without Choice, Weinberg/Newton Gallery with Planned Parenthood, Chicago, Illinois
2020 Anthem, Weinberg/Newton Gallery in partnership with the Illinois ACLU, Chicago, Illinois
2019 ISO 6346: ineluctable immigrant, solo exhibition, James Gallery, CUNY Graduate Center, NYC,
2018 ISO 6346: ineluctable immigrant, solo exhibition, Spertus Institute, Chicago, Illinois
2018 Material Turn, Milieux Institute of Arts, Culture +Technology, Concordia University, Montreal,
Quebec
2017 Feast of Astonishments: Charlotte Moorman and the Avant Garde, Museum der Moderne, Salzberg,
Austria
2016 Feast of Astonishments: Charlotte Moorman and the Avant Garde, The Grey Art Gallery, New York
University, NYC; The Block Museum of Art, Evanston, Illinois
2016 CARPA, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, Oregon
2015 elsetime, solo exhibition, Sector 2337, Chicago, Illinois
2015 REMOTE WEST, Institute 4 Labor and Generosity Workers + Uniforms, Long Beach, California
2015 Traces in the Dark: Imaginary Archive, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Public Projects
2020 The Future Is Ours, 1,000 Scores, RIMINI PROTOKOLL/APPARAT, Berlin
2019 Re:Working Labor Exhibition, in collaboration with Daniel Eisenberg; Sullivan Galleries at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Institute for Curatorial Research and Practice at
SAIC
2018 Re:Working Labor Symposium, in collaboration with Daniel Eisenberg; International Research Centre, Work and Human Life Cycle in Global History at Humboldt University, Berlin; Institute for
Curatorial Research and Practice at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2017 Screening with Daniel Eisenberg, Kino Arsenal, Berlin, Germany
2016 Future Past, Arts Bank, Le People Qui Manque, The Regime of Historicity, Chicago, Illinois
Grants / Fellowships
2019–23 Visiting Fellow, re:work IGK, Work and Lifecycle in Global History, Humboldt-University, Berlin
2017–19 Inaugural Faculty Research Fellow, Institute for Curatorial Research and Practice, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2018 Individual Artist Project Grant, Illinois Arts Council
2016 Individual Artists Program (IAP) Grant, City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events
Exhibition Publications
2019 ISO 6346: ineluctable immigrant, interview by Katherine Carl
2019 REWORKING LABOR, essay by Daniel Eisenberg and Ellen Rothenberg
2018 SHADOWED!, writing by Simone Forti, Hannah B. Higgins, Shawn Michelle Smith, Caroline Picard,
Jeffrey Skoller, Green Lantern Press
2018 ISO 6346: ineluctable immigrant, interview by Ionit Behar, essay Bettina Klein
Professional
2003–24 Professor Adj., School of the Art Institute of Chicago