Roee Rosen:
The Kafka Companion to Wellness
Kunstverein Hannover
November 9, 2024 — January 12, 2025
Kafka for Kids, video still, 2022
© the artist, 2022, courtesy the artist
cinematographer: Avner Shahaf,
still: Goni Riskin
The Kafka Companion to Wellness is artist ROEE ROSEN’s first solo exhibition in Germany in nearly a decade. Given today’s politically charged cultural landscape, it seems almost self-evident to show an artist who does not shy away from difficult subjects, but at the same time does not exploit them for effect or approach them insensitively—consequently ensuring that difficult topics are neither robbed of their depth nor simply skimmed over on a populist surface level.
Roee Rosen’s distinctive feature is that he does not take a single position on past events, but instead invites us to see past and present events through the eyes of the many figures who populate his practice, himself included. The exhibition brings together work from the mid-1990s to the present.
Co-curated by Krzysztof Kościuczuk
KUNSTVEREIN HANNOVER
Sophienstrasse 2 — 30159 Hanover
