Wolfgang Thierse, Ricarda Roggan © DBT/Melde

4 September 2009 to 10 January 2010

With her exhibition in the Art Room of the German Bundestag, the Leipzig-based photographer Ricarda Roggan takes stock of her career, presenting examples from several of the cycles she has created. Ricarda Roggan’s photographic works oscillate between the depiction of surreal ready-mades and seemingly sober, objective serial documentations of quotidian reality. Historicality and the present intertwine in her work in a way that is almost symbolic of the German Bundestag, with its buildings standing on a historic site that straddles the great bend in the River Spree. By combining these dimensions, she achieves a unique, restrained ‘re-visioning’ of events since the year of destiny Germany lived through in 1989.

Ricarda Roggan

4 September 2009 to 10 January 2010

Opening:

3 September 2009, 18.30 hrs

Tuesday to Sunday
11.00 to 17.00 hrs

Further information:

Telephone: +49 (0) 30 227-32027
E-Mail: kunst-raum@bundestag.de
URL: www.kunst-im-bundestag.de

Art Room
of the German Bundestag
Marie-Elisabeth Lüders Building
Schiffbauerdamm
10117 Berlin

Access via the Spreeside promenade opposite the Reichstag Building

Illustration: Garage 1, 2008, Copyright: courtesy Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig/Berlin; VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2009; Text: Andreas Kaernbach, Curator of the Art Collection of the German Bundestag; Design: Büro Uebele