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: Niels Fabaek
(Un)real
Group Exhibition
Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg
Through October 19, 2025
Art is not just about objects or phenomena. Art also represents something – even when it does not depict something we can recognise. The exhibition (Un)real features interpretations by various artists of reality and of the notions we form in our encounter with works of art and reality. The fulcrum of the exhibition comprises Ai Weiwei’s gigantic trees rising from the marble floor. The bare trees are not just trees. They are fragments of numerous dead camphor trees gathered in southern China and combined to create a new reality. Maybe it is a critical representation of how a multitude of individual parts are forced together and subjected to a system that attempts to look natural, but is actually a huge, controlled illusion. An unreal reality.
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