Rose Hammer
Biography
Rose Hammer is an artist persona comprised of a collective group of individuals. Evolving and changing, Rose Hammer is, in no particular order: Kim Svensson, Emilie Birkeland, Alma Braun, Niels Munk Plum, Emil Andersson, Alessandro Marchi, Stacey de Voe, Nora Joung, Helle Lindskog, Ole-Petter Arneberg, Per-Oskar Leu and Dora García; with the collaboration of Samir Kandil and Jan Mech.
Although not exclusively, the name “Rose Hammer” may refer to a) the hammer inscribed on Henrik Ibsen’s grave monument in Oslo; b) the former emblem of the Norwegian labour movement; c) the famous quote attributed to Bertolt Brecht: “Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it”; d) the rose symbol which became popular among socialist and social democratic political parties in post-World War II Western Europe.
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Essay
Sven Lütticken is an art critic, curator and historian who contributes regularly to art magazines such as New Left Review, Texte zur Kunst, e-flux journal, Grey Room and Afterall.
In this conversation, he talks to two of the individuals who make up the artist persona Rose Hammer.
Read the essay here:
THE NAME OF THE ROSE - FRAGMENTS FROM A CONVERSATION WITH ROSE HAMMER