In Mika Rottenberg’s Antimatter Factory the world is full of absurdities: a finger protrudes out of a wall, people sneeze meals onto a table and plastic mushrooms grow out of logs. Born in Argentine in 1976, the artist, who grew up in Israel and today lives in New York, critically and humorously examines hyper-capitalism and its social and ecological consequences in her surreal, kaleidoscopic visual worlds. With this exhibition the KunstHausWien – a museum of Wien Holding – is responding to the urgent need to rethink resources, consume less and live in more sustainable ways, a line fully in keeping with its positioning as a museum devoted to art and ecology.
Mika Rottenberg. Antimatter Factory
Mika Rottenberg. Antimatter Factory
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Exhibition Duration 27.02.2025–10.08.2025
Mika Rottenberg
Mika Rottenberg
Antimatter Factory
"My work is about this magical and often exploitative process of producing “value” through harnessing energies. Matter, especially plastic, has a lot of trapped energy in it. I love thinking about materials and environments as sentient beings, as things we form relationships with." - Mika RottenbergWith the exhibition Antimatter Factory the…