March 24 – May 7, 2006
MKM Museum Küppersmühle for Modern Art

With the exhibition “RO’MA – Rosemarie Trockel and Markus Lüpertz”, the MKM presents the fifth “Akademos” project, in which the work of the Düsseldorf academy professors is presented.

The special feature of the exhibition is its explicitly collaborative conception and realization in the sense of a joint project. The project is visibly characterized by a lively mutual interest in each other’s work and personality.

Both artists have coordinated the choice of medium, the selection of works, the layout and design of the space with and for each other. In the juxtaposition of their works, they mirror each other – even in the true sense of the word, when Rosemarie Trockel confronts her large wall piece of reflective panels, created especially for the exhibition, with the sculpture “Paris” by Markus Lüpertz. The clash between Rosemarie Trockel’s untitled stove-top works, which ironize traditional gender roles, and Markus Lüpertz’s talking series of drawings “Men without Women” is also subtly biting and witty. A juxtaposition also takes place within the museum, as both artists are represented with works from different creative periods in the Ströher Collection and presented at the MKM.