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Daughter, exile, feminist, urban choreographer, political activist and conceptual artist, Lotty Rosenfeld was born in Santiago de Chile in 1943, into a family marked by the experiences of expulsion, survival and resilience. Her father, Ernst Rosenfeld, left Nazi Germany in 1935, part of the early wave of Jewish refugees seeking safety in Latin America. Her grandparents, Rudolf and Charlotte Rosenfeld, who once owned the Hotel Rom in Breslau, fled to Siberia, later emigrating to Chile after the war. In exile, the Rosenfeld family rebuilt a life—and a café—in Santiago, grounded in the memories of their lives in Europe.
The exhibition LOTTY ROSENFELD: ESTA LÍNEA ES MI ARMA, which will open on September 20 at Overbeck-Gesellschaft, is the first major survey of her work in a German context. It brings together archival material, performative documentation, early installations, and previously unseen works to map the tra…
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Daughter, exile, feminist, urban choreographer, political activist and conceptual artist, Lotty Rosenfeld was born in Santiago de Chile in 1943, into a family marked by the experiences of expulsion, survival and resilience. Her father, Ernst Rosenfeld, left Nazi Germany in 1935, part of the early wave of Jewish refugees seeking safety in Latin America. Her grandparents, Rudolf and Charlotte Rosenfeld, who once owned the Hotel Rom in Breslau, fled to Siberia, later emigrating to Chile after the war. In exile, the Rosenfeld family rebuilt a life—and a café—in Santiago, grounded in the memories of their lives in Europe.
The exhibition LOTTY ROSENFELD: ESTA LÍNEA ES MI ARMA, which will open on September 20 at Overbeck-Gesellschaft, is the first major survey of her work in a German context. It brings together archival material, performative documentation, early installations, and previously unseen works to map the tra…
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