Frauke Rohenkohl
From February to mid-March 2023, artist Frauke Rohenkohl will complete a residency program in Riwanua. In 2021, she completed her Master’s degree in Visual Communication with a focus on intermedia photography and editorial design at the Kunsthochschule Kassel and is currently also studying Fine Arts with a focus on sculpture. She implements an interdisciplinary and multimedia artistic practice and pursues artistic research. In this process, she deals with movement structures of capitalist economy and industry by analysing value chains. Her latest artistic work and research entitled “Business As Usual” deals with the shoe industry and examines the symbiosis of two places, on the one hand in Germany (Pirmasens), with the other in India (Kanpur) on the basis of the value chain of leather products. In creating this work, she merges current photography with archival material and expands the research by examining historical sources such as business reports, newspaper articles, statistics and so on. Through collaborations in moving image and sound, as well as with other disciplines, she creates a multimedia complementary perspective to the photographic practice. Her artistic output takes the form of a reimagined and global archive that mirrors our contemporary economic world.