Author Description

Anda Rottenberg (*1944) is a Polish art historian, art critic, and writer. In 2000, as the director of the Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, she worked with curator Harald Szeeman (1933?2005) on an exhibition featuring Maurizio Cattelans La Nona Ora (The ninth Hour) which led to a public scandal and ultimately to her resigning from the director post. In a series of fictional letters to the late Harald Szeeman, Anda Rottenberg is taking the reader on a very personal journey, sharing opinionated analysis of both artistic production and art histories. By adding anecdotes and political backgrounds, she questions the position of female artists in the Eastern and the Western canon and encourages individual readings.ok, the letters are accompanied by a visual essay, drawing amongst others on the installations at Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw and works from Grazyna Kulczyk Collection.