Pamela Rosenkranz (*1979) rose to prominence with a conceptual practice that encompasses sculpture, video, installation and painting. Her work questions the subjective element in the apprehension of an artwork, shifting the viewer’s focus toward the material, biochemical and neurological determinants of human behavior. Dubious of a worldview that places human beings at the center of the natural and material universe, the Zurich-based artist has also collaborated with thinkers from the broad philosophical movement known as speculative realism.

Photo: Peter Tijhuis
Pamela Rosenkranz
Liquid Body
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Through August 24, 2025
Liquid Body is the first solo exhibition in The Netherlands by Pamela Rosenkranz. Known for her immersive environments, Rosenkranz transforms the museum into a charged sensory field, where the distinction between perception and matter dissolves, and light behaves as if it were thought itself. In a space bathed in a green and blue glow—suggestive of synthetic ecologies and unearthly atmospheres—painting exists not just as surface, but as a living system where presence and perception interact.
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