CURATED: MANUEL ROSSNER

ARTIST

EXHIBITION

The German artist Manuel Rossner has been creating digital spaces and virtual worlds since 2012. He explores how society and art are impacted by technological advancements. He is best known for his site-specific digital work—virtual reality drawings that crash with physical buildings. His intervention focuses on the context of their location and the materiality of the digital. Rossner’s work has been exhibited throughout the world, including at the Grand Palais Éphémère (Paris), NTT InterCommunication Center (Tokyo), Hamburger Kunsthalle, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden and Kunsthalle Zürich. 

In conversation with Anika Meier, Manuel Rossner speaks about the present and future of digital art. 

Virtual Architecture and Spatial Paintings

MANUEL ROSSNER: CREATING VIRTUAL WORLDS

"While brick and mortar buildings are meant to last for centuries, a digital space is refreshed 60 times every second on each visitor's device. It could change 60 times in a second." – Manuel Rossner

Manuel Rossner (b. 1989) is a German artist who has been creating digital spaces and virtual worlds since 2012. In his work, he explores how society and art are impacted by technological advancements. He is best known for his site-specific digital work. Rossner’s virtual reality drawings crash with physical buildings. His intervention focuses on the context of their location and the materiality of the digital. His digital exhibition space New Float is located on the construction site of the Museum of the 20th Century next to the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin.

Rossner’s work has been exhibited throughout the world, including the Grand Palais Éphémère (Paris), NTT InterCommunication Center (Tokyo), Hamburger Kunsthalle, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden and Kunsthalle Zürich.


Unsurprisingly This is Rather Hard Work, KÖNIG GALERIE Berlin, 2021
Surprisingly This Rather Works, KÖNIG GALERIE Berlin, 2020
There’s No Feeling Where There’s No Pain, MdbK Leipzig, 2019
Ultralight Beam, 1822 Forum / Float Gallery, Frankfurt am Main, 2017

DYOR, Kunsthalle Zürich, 2022
Nature and State, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, 2022
Do You Miss the Future?, Hyundai Motorstudio Busan, South Korea, 2021
Open Space: New Flatland, ICC Tokyo, 2021
Out of Space, Hamburger Kunsthalle, 2021
Un Palais Augmenté, Grand Palais, Paris, 2021
The Artist Is Online, KÖNIG GALERIE, 2021
Berlin, Augmented Berlin together with Highsnobiety, 2021
Safiental Land-Art Biennale, Schweiz, 2020
Digital Natives – Sculpture, CUBE / Roehrs & Boetsch, Zurich, 2019
Artificial Paradise? KM – Künstlerhaus Graz, 2018
Perception is Reality, Frankfurter Kunstverein, 2017
Unreal & NRW-Forum Extension Building, NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, 2017

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Inquiry

Manuel Rossner’s SPATIAL PAINTINGs can be experienced in Virtual Reality and allow the viewer to interact with the work. 
 
Wood burns or breaks into pieces, but digital material has qualities that make it unique. Digital material mimics what we know from the physical world. Why do we understand and feel virtual environments when they ultimately are a bunch of zeros and ones?

Pink Spatial Painting #1

Manuel Rossner curated his first digital exhibition project Float Gallery in 2012, which included Jeremy Bailey's 2004 piece VIDEO PAINT 1.0 in which Bailey describes the benefits of a painting software he designed. Such benefits include clean hands, material savings, and automatically added words such as "war" and "love" for meaning. The presentation begins with the lines "I wrote this program...," emphasizing his excitement about transforming how art is created.
19 years after VIDEO PAINT 1.0, Rossner chatted with artificial intelligence to create the work I WROTE THIS SCRIPT. This assertion, however, is not made by him. The full statement is "I, ChatGPT, an OpenAI language model, wrote the script for the organic form in Unity that you requested earlier."

MANUEL ROSSNER | I WROTE THIS SCRIPT

MAGAZINE

A NEW BEGINNING | GALLERY

GENERATIVE ABSTRACTION AND BEYOND aims to define a point in history where a network of artists are generating abstract works with algorithms and codes. In collaboration with Verse. 

Verse x EXPANDED.ART

GENERATIVE ABSTRACTION AND BEYOND | GALLERY

19 artists explore the idea of further challenging the concreteness of human memory—personal or collective—through creative collaboration with AI. In collaboration with The NFT Gallery in London and New York. 


AI AND MEMORY 

RECOLLECTION | NEW YORK, LONDON

The exhibition presents pioneers from different generations, early 1950s until today, working in the field of generative art. On view will be, among others, plotter drawings, generative photography, sculptures, and NFTs from 30 international artists. In collaboration with ELEMENTUM.ART.

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