Artists Rosa Aiello (With Dylan Aiello, Mackenzie Davis, Laura Langer, Andrea Laratta, Giulia Vittoria Maione, Yutong Su, Pitt Wenninger, Mara Zigler)
Date 15. 11. 2025 – 1. 2. 2026
Curator Theresa Roessler
Venue Westfälischer Kunstverein
The camera, too, moves through and produces space, turning towards, dividing, excluding, and focusing. Again, out of spatial conditions—now those of seeing and being seen, or remaining invisible—relations emerge. The camera doesn’t always wield power here. It can empower, evaluate, preserve or protect what it sees; but first and foremost, it exposes, bringing its subject to light. Through the lens, the gaze is in search of something. It both seeks and produces luoghi sensibili—sensitive places. It experiences shame. Looking creates vulnerability, documentation shows what is temporary, and movement lends a poor image a frame. There is something to be seen in dazzling light, in deliberate shadows, in the bleed. What was on the periphery shifts to the centre. “Where exactly shall we meet?” It is simply a question of perspective, of position, of the triangulation of gazes, of infrastructure.
A Good Reputation is Rosa Aiello’s first institutional solo exhibition in Germany and comprises her most comprehensive new body of work to date. Alongside massive architectural interventions, Aiello will present new collaborative and documentary film and photographic works made with Pitt Wenninger, Yutong Su and others. Paintings by Laura Langer will also feature, as well as a performance developed by Dylan Aiello in response to the exhibition.
To accompany the exhibition, Rosa Aiello will release a new publication in 2026 with DISTANZ, Berlin, as part of the Kontext series, including an essay by Yaniya Lee and contributions from von Helin Çelik, Beatrice Gibson and Ivana Mladenović.
Rosa Aiello (b. 1987 in Hamilton, CA, living and working in Berlin, DE) studied at Städelschule, Frankfurt a.M., DE, 2014–18; Oxford University, GB, 2010–11 and McGill University, Montréal, CA, 2005–10, and participated in Berlinale Talents, Berlin, DE, 2024. Her films were shown at Fridericianum, Kassel, DE, 2023; Kunsthalle Zürich, CH, 2019; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt a.M., DE, 2019; Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, GB, 2017; High Line Art, New York City, US, 2015, among others. Her solo and duo exhibitions include, among others: LOVE TEST: P.O.V., together with Dylan Aiello, Mint, Stockholm, SE, 2024; The All Attractive, Drei, Cologne, DE, 2023; Traffic, Kevin Space, Vienna, AT, 2022; Caryatid Encounters, Arcadia Missa, London, GB, 2021; Seduction, Lodos, Mexico City, MX, 2019; Joins, together with Patricia L. Boyd, Cell Project Space, London, GB, 2019.
