The artist, perhaps best known for Manifesto with Cate Blanchett, often works with monumental sets or even post-industrial locations, while constantly questioning the functioning and interrelationship of visual representation, narrative construction and ideologies. 

Presenting his creative thinking—the ways he redefines boundaries between film and installation—in his current lecture he will share insights into his artistic practice and methods of designing multi-channel video installations. Born in 1965 in Munich, Rosefeldt studied architecture in Barcelona but soon turned towards the intersecting areas of contemporary arts, visual narratives and the moving image. His works, often contemplating social, historical and ideological issues, are invariably visually stunning and carefully designed installations and multi-channel projections, which reflect the complex intertwining of the different dimensions of reality. 

His work is shown in numerous international collections, including the MoMA in New York, the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, the Sammlung Goetz in Munich, the Kunstmuseum Bonn, the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen in Munich, the Sprengel Museum in Hanover and the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens. 

His thirteen-channel film installation, Manifesto, featuring Australian actress Cate Blanchett in thirteen roles—both homage and criticism, and a reinterpretation of the history of art manifestoes—has been screened in twenty-five institutions worldwide, including in the Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest. C/O Berlin recently dedicated a major retrospective exhibition to Rosefeldt, showcasing 30 years of his work under the title ‘Nothing is Original’. 

Living in Berlin since the late 1990s, Rosefeldt was a visiting professor of digital media at the Bauhaus University in Weimar between 2009 and 2010. Since 2010 he has been a member of the film and media art department at the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, and since 2011 he has been professor of media art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. 

The event is sponsored by Global Voices, and a Q&A session will follow the lecture.