Rosemarie Trockel is a conceptual artist from Germany who has made artworks in media, including paintings, videos, drawings, sculptures, and installations. She is teaching at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia.
Trockel's birthdate is November 13, 1952. In 1974, she started studying anthropology, math, sociology, and theology while also going to a vocational arts school in Cologne.
Trockel started to make large-scale paintings in 1985. They were made on industrial knitting machines and often featured geometric logos or motifs. This trademark would always appear at the bottom: "Made in West Germany."
“I felt drawn more to what was happening in New York. In Cologne a lot of energy was wasted in power struggles, while in New York the equal status of women artists seemed much less contested.”
-Rosemarie Trockel
Since the 1990s, she has been working extensively with clay. She also creates needle and machine-knitted artworks that were exhibited in a few retrospectives.