Money, media & porn. Ephemeral media as both material basis and archive of inscribed and reproducing power structures - communication and body in the interplay of diverse regulating systems. Self-created, invisible, all-encompassing constructions and hierarchies dominate the artistic practice of Rosanna Marie Pondorf. Driven, supposedly individual motivations serve to maintain the system, the mass. In doing so, she works with different materials and techniques: devalued euro notes transformed to new handmade paper or combined with sugar and pressed under 100 tons of power, screenshots engraved in marble, transparently layered image blocks. Through the extraction, deconstruction and recoding of content and patterns from the broad spectrum of prefabricated media images, her works reveal and convey their aesthetic rhythms and socio-political dimensions that dictate our present. [Constanze Metzel]
Rosanna Marie Pondorf looks at our multiply networked, structurally interwoven world and subtly traces the great uncertainties. Money, media, and pornography take on a central role in the artist's works. They are symbol loaded projection surfaces, in the background of which mechanisms of power and control come to light. Again and again, Rosanna Marie Pondorf returns to a few expressive materials and, with a calm and reduced formal language, finds highly enigmatic images for the complex entanglements of our time. [Ines Wittneben]
Rosanna Marie Pondorf is an artist from Munich, Germany. In 2024, she graduated her diploma studies as a debutant with Prof. Peter Kogler at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich. In 2021 she received a grant to study under Flaka Haliti at the International Summeracademy in Salzburg, Austria. In the same year, as in 2023, Rosa Stern Space was awarded the Prize for Galleries and Off Spaces by the City of Munich for its impact on the local contemporary art scene. In 2022, Pondorf was appointed as master student by Prof. Peter Kogler and won the Berlin Hyp Award at the Positions Art Fair. Since 2015, Pondorf has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions in Germany, Bulgaria, Austria and Estonia. Her work is part of ERES-Stiftung in Munich as well as the Stiftung Politik & Wissenschaft in Berlin and several private collections. [Zakirah Rabaney]
education
2024
teaching assignment at Muthesius Kunsthochschule with Prof. Andreas Greiner, Kiel
diploma Academy of Fine Arts Munich
2022
masterstudent of Prof. Peter Kogler Academy of Fine Arts Munich
director of Rosa Stern Space e.V., Munich
2020 ongoing
corunning Rosa Stern Space (program, concept, curation), Munich
2015 - 2024
Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich with Prof. Peter Kogler
grants + awards
2024
Förderpreis PERSPEKTIVEN by Kunstclub 13, Platform, Munich
Debütant*innenpreis (graduation award), Academy of Fine Arts Munich
2023
Prize for artist-run spaces and galleries, awarded by the City of Munich (with Rosa Stern Space e.V.)
2022
bayern innovativ „Junge Kunst und neue Wege“ (grant)
Berlin Hyp Award, Positions Art Fair, Berlin
Prize for artist-run spaces and galleries, awarded by the City of Munich (with Rosa Stern Space e.V.)
2021
Summeracademy (grant) with Flaka Haliti, Salzburg
reviews
2024
Sueddeutsche Zeitung by Evelyn Vogel
gallerytalk.net by Quirin Brunnmeier
2023
gallerytalk.net by Julia Anna Wittmann
2022
gallerytalk.net by Quirin Brunnmeier
Sueddeutsche Zeitung by Ilona Gerdom
gallerytalk.net by Lisa Stoiber
2021
ofluxo.net ; Les Nouveaux Riches ; KUBAPARIS by Maxine Weiss, Rosanna Marie Pondorf
ERES Stiftung by Dr. Sabine Adler
exhibitions
2024
"Förderpreis – PERSPEKTIVEN" award presentation, Platform, Munich
"Random Access Memory" graduation show, Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
"16:9" group show, n.n.space, Munich
2023
"transforming notation on movement and value" duo show w// Nicola Kötterl, Akademiegalerie, Munich
"Alchemy of Hope" group show, ReBonkers, Varna
"POSITIONS Art Fair 2023" solo presentation, Berlin Tempelhof
"contracted leasing" group show, n.n.space, Munich
"OFF MERGE" duo show w// Anja Lekavski, Rosa Stern Space, Munich
annual exhibition Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
"zuwege" Zahn am Bach, Prien am Chiemsee
2022
"FOOD FOR THOUGHT" group show, Speiseraum, Munich
"mission 1 - normalformat" group show, unsorted systems, Munich
"APOCALYPTIC HEDONISM" group show Rosa Stern Space, Munich
"RE-SPIRIT TRANS-SPIRIT" Sofia Art Week 5 – Sofia + Varna
"Academy POSITIONS by Berlin Hyp" Tempelhof Airport, Berlin
"TURN BACK TIME" DOMA Art Foundation, ReBonkers Varna
annual exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
"augmented dreams" artist in residence Klasse Peter Kogler, Österreichischer Skulpturenpark, Graz
"drift“ group show, Kaulbach 1A, Munich
"LA GRANDE BOUFFE" group show, LOVAAS Projects, Munich
"Total Living" Stromzähler#8, group show, Isarparkhaus, Munich
2021
"HTSSNSS" SUPER BOOKS, Haus der Kunst, Munich
"I got here floating in a tin can" group show, Aether Art Space, Sofia
Open Studios, Summeracademy, Spatial Hijacks by Sculpture (Flaka Haliti), Salzburg
"Sugar Pie Honey Punch" group show, Boxwerk, Munich
annual exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
"me, me" duo show Rosa Stern, @base by ERES Foundation, Munich
"PHANTOMBESITZ" solo show, Rosa Stern Space, Munich
2020
"#11" group show, ille galerie, Munich
"Drawing Restrict. A Growing Exhibition." group show, Rosa Stern Space, Munich
"akademiegaleriehomeoffice" group show, Akademiegalerie, Munich
2019
"START-UP" duo show Rosa Stern,European Patent Office, Munich
"Meine Träume Traumatisieren" annual exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
2018
annual exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
"Klaus von Gaffron gegen den Rest der Welt" group show Kunst Block Balve, Munich
2017
"*alles könnte auch jederzeit ganz anders sein" duo show Rosa Stern, by Prinzip, Munich
annual exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
2016
"KOMPLIZEN" group show, HBK Galerie, Saarbrücken
annual exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
2015
"Multiversum" solo show, Ministry of Labour & Social Affairs Family & Integration, Munich
"Eksperimenta" group show, Talinn