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Siegessäule Großer Stern (Victory Column Großer Stern)

Aura Rosenberg

“Column of victory with winter sugar of childhood days“ is the famous motto in Walter Benjamin’s Berlin Childhood around 1900. In this book, Benjamin portrays the metropolitan life of a family on the threshold to the modern age, yet seen from a child’s perspective. He dedicated one chapter to the victory column built in 1871. 

At the victory column, a well-attended techno street festival called the Love Parade took place when Aura Rosenberg lived in Berlin in the 1990s. The US‑American artist visited the places of Benjamin’s childhood and merged them with her own new experiences. Rosenberg’s family had to leave the city in 1939. A missing souvenir of her own family history also influences this multi-layered work.

Aura Rosenberg, Das fehlende Andenken (Aura Rosenberg, the missing souvenir)

Framed photography (inkjet printing) synthetic material, wood console, 2001/2003/2018, Edition 2/10

Acquired from the art trade 2020