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Aura Rosenberg

Is the Spanish mystic Teresa of Ávila’s description of her religious experience pornographic? Is it obscene? About half a century after she wrote these words, Gian Lorenzo Bernini completed a sculpture capturing this precise moment of holy petit-morte that became one of the most iconic works of Western art: Ecstasy of Saint Teresa (1647–52). Saint Teresa’s surrendered countenance with her half-open mouth and her eyes rolling back is a literal representation of an orgasm — yet her face is just the pinnacle of a mountain of aroused cloth. It is as if the saint, soul, flesh, and habit, had become a giant tumescent flower suspended in the mystical spheres of sexual otherworldliness. Why did Bernini choose to translate the moment of ecstasy into these exact tangible forms? Is there a relationship between spirit, flesh, and fabric?

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White Shirt on Black Velvet, white acrylic on black velvet, 121.4 x 120 cm
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White Shirt on Black Velvet, white acrylic on black velvet, 121.4 x 120 cm
Scene #4, 2014, acrylic paint, inkjet print on gold metallic photo paper mounted to dibond, 19.5 x 26 cm
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Scene #4, acrylic paint, inkjet print on gold metallic photo paper mounted to dibond, 19.5 x 26 cm
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Exhibitions
Aura Rosenberg
Statues Also Fall in Love
6–28 October, 2023
1F, 41-19 Samseong-dong Seoul
Pitti Palace Ceiling, 2023, lenticular print, 90.5 x 60 cm
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Pitti Palace Ceiling, lenticular print, 90.5 x 60 cm
Buboli Gardens Woman I, 2023, lenticular print, 90.5 x 60 cm
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Buboli Gardens Woman I, lenticular print, 90.5 x 60 cm
Capitoline Venus, 2023, lenticular print, 90.5 x 60 cm
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Capitoline Venus, lenticular print, 90.5 x 60 cm
Colossal Head, 2023, lenticular print, 90.5 x 60 cm
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Colossal Head, lenticular print, 90.5 x 60 cm
David, 2023, lenticular print, 90.5 x 60 cm
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David, lenticular print, 90.5 x 60 cm
Fountain of the Ocean, 2023, lenticular print, 90.5 x 60 cm
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Fountain of the Ocean, lenticular print, 90.5 x 60 cm
Hercules, Aphrodite and a thought Bubble, 2023, lenticular print, 90.5 x 60 cm
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Hercules, Aphrodite and a thought Bubble, lenticular print, 90.5 x 60 cm
Fragilina, 2023, lenticular print, 90.5 x 60 cm
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Fragilina, lenticular print, 90.5 x 60 cm
Hercules Killing the Hydra, 2023, lenticular print, 90.5 x 60 cm
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Hercules Killing the Hydra, lenticular print, 90.5 x 60 cm
La Vittoria, 2023, lenticular print, 90.5 x 60 cm
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La Vittoria, lenticular print, 90.5 x 60 cm
Monumental Hand, 2023, lenticular print, 90.5 x 60 cm
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Monumental Hand, lenticular print, 90.5 x 60 cm
Monumental Head, 2023, lenticular print, 90.5 x 60 cm
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Monumental Head, lenticular print, 90.5 x 60 cm
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Aura Rosenberg
Behind the Curtain
1–30 September, 2023
1F, 41-19 Samseong-dong Seoul
Scene #4, 2014, acrylic paint, inkjet print on gold metallic photo paper mounted to dibond, 19.5 x 26 cm
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Scene #4, acrylic paint, inkjet print on gold metallic photo paper mounted to dibond, 19.5 x 26 cm
Obscene #4, acrylic paint, inkjet print on gold metallic photo paper mounted to dibond, 131.5 x 93.5 cm
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Obscene #4, acrylic paint, inkjet print on gold metallic photo paper mounted to dibond, 131.5 x 93.5 cm
Scene #2, 2014, acrylic paint, inkjet print on gold metallic photo paper mounted to dibond, 25.5 x 17.5 cm
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Scene #2, acrylic paint, inkjet print on gold metallic photo paper mounted to dibond, 25.5 x 17.5 cm
Obscene #2, 2014, acrylic paint, inkjet print on gold metallic photo paper mounted to dibond, 131.5 x 93.5 cm
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Obscene #2, acrylic paint, inkjet print on gold metallic photo paper mounted to dibond, 131.5 x 93.5 cm
Scene #1 (Naked Man), 2014, acrylic paint, inkjet print on gold metallic photo paper mounted to dibond, 26 x 17.5 cm
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Scene #1 (Naked Man), acrylic paint, inkjet print on gold metallic photo paper mounted to dibond, 26 x 17.5 cm
Scene #1 (Man in Suit), 2014, acrylic paint, inkjet print on gold metallic photo paper mounted to dibond, 26 x 17.5 cm
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Scene #1 (Man in Suit), acrylic paint, inkjet print on gold metallic photo paper mounted to dibond, 26 x 17.5 cm
Obscene #1, 2014, acrylic paint, inkjet print on gold metallic photo paper mounted to dibond, 131.5 x 93.5 cm
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Obscene #1, acrylic paint, inkjet print on gold metallic photo paper mounted to dibond, 131.5 x 93.5 cm
Scene #3, 2014, acrylic paint, inkjet print on gold metallic photo paper mounted to dibond, 20 x 21.6 cm
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Scene #3, acrylic paint, inkjet print on gold metallic photo paper mounted to dibond, 20 x 21.6 cm
Obscene #3, 2014, acrylic paint, inkjet print on gold metallic photo paper mounted to dibond, 131.5 x 93.5 cm
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Obscene #3, acrylic paint, inkjet print on gold metallic photo paper mounted to dibond, 131.5 x 93.5 cm
Blue Jeans on Red Velvet, blue acrylic on red velvet, 178 x 104 cm
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Blue Jeans on Red Velvet, blue acrylic on red velvet, 178 x 104 cm
Blue Jeans 1, blue acrylic on black velvet, 149 x 170 cm
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Blue Jeans 1, blue acrylic on black velvet, 149 x 170 cm
Slip, neon acrylic on blue velvet, 102 x 216 cm
White Shirt on Black Velvet, 2023, white acrylic on black velvet, 149 x 170 cm
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White Shirt on Black Velvet, white acrylic on black velvet, 149 x 170 cm
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Tapetenwechsel
Arthur Laidlaw, Aura Rosenberg, Hannah Sophie Dunkelberg, Michelle Grabner, Tom Holmes, Tony Just
12 May–24 June, 2023
1F, 41-19 Samseong-dong Seoul
untitled, 1989, c-print, passepartout, 72 x 56 cm
untitled, 1989, c-print, passepartout, wooden frame, 72 x 56 cm
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Aura Rosenberg
The Bull, The Girl + The Siegessäule
26 November–20 January, 2022
Ernst-Reuter-Platz 2 10587 Berlin
What do you see of the day but night, 2021, lenticular print, 242 x 122 x 6 cm
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What do you see of the day but night, lenticular print, 242 x 122 x 6 cm
You are afraid of the echo, 2021, lenticular print framed in museum glass, 183 x 123 x 4 cm
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You are afraid of the echo, lenticular print framed in museum glass, 183 x 123 x 4 cm
Knowing without words, the thing itself affixed to the heart, shelters us from its image like a shield, 2021, lenticular print framed in museum glass, 183 x 123 x 4 cm
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Knowing without words, the thing itself affixed to the heart, shelters us from its image like a shield, lenticular print framed in museum glass, 183 x 123 x 4 cm
Missing Souvenir
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Missing Souvenir, ,
Oh harmoniuos present! Exultant reflecting point in a continuum!, 2021, disco ball, motor, chain, 75 cm
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Oh harmoniuos present! Exultant reflecting point in a continuum!, disco ball, motor, chain, 75 cm
My dreams sharpened by horns, 2021, lenticular print framed in museum glass, 183 x 123 x 4 cm
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My dreams sharpened by horns, lenticular print framed in museum glass, 183 x 123 x 4 cm
I want to penetrate men's dreams, their secret heavens and remote stars, those called upon when dawn and destiny are at play, 2021, lenticular print framed in museum glass, 183 x 123 x 4 cm
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I want to penetrate men's dreams, their secret heavens and remote stars, those called upon when dawn and destiny are at play, lenticular print framed in museum glass, 183 x 123 x 4 cm
It is not with eyes that one confronts a myth, 2021, lenticular print framed in museum glass, 183 x 123 x 4 cm
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It is not with eyes that one confronts a myth, lenticular print framed in museum glass, 183 x 123 x 4 cm
You seem to look right through me, 2021, lenticular print framed in museum glass, 183 x 123 x 4 cm
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You seem to look right through me, lenticular print framed in museum glass, 183 x 123 x 4 cm
As in every mirror, there's someone who knows and waits, 2021, lenticular print framed in museum glass, 183 x 123 x 4 cm
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As in every mirror, there's someone who knows and waits, lenticular print framed in museum glass, 183 x 123 x 4 cm
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https://www.moussemagazine.it/magazine/aura-rosenberg-efremidis-seoul-2023
Mousse Magazine, 2023

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/29/arts/design/aura-rosenberg-artist-pioneer-space.html?sea
New York Times Profile, Travis Diehl, 2023

https://www.frieze.com/article/aura-rosenberg-efremidis-gallery-2021-review
Frieze review, Claire Koron Elat, 2021

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-woman-photographed-mike-kelley-john-baldessari-mid-orgasm
Artsy editorial, Scott Indrisek, 2017

https://www.x-traonline.org/article/picturing-la-petite-mort/
X•Tra review by Kate Wolf, 2017

https://curatingthecontemporary.org/2017/05/11/11-booths-at-frieze-ny-that-stopped-me-in-my-tracks/
Maxime Van Melkebeke, curatingthecontemporary, May 11 2017

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/559ab92fe4b0e7f9efbbb307/t/57ae2525be6594d28d9bec78/1471030572585/RA_Bomblog_3.4.13+new.pdf
BOMBlog, Interview by John Miller, March 4 2013

https://demeterpress.org/books/the-m-word-real-mothers-in-contemporary-art/
Demeter Press, edited by Myrel Chernick and Jennie Klein, 2011