TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary

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Rachel Rose

Born in 1986 and based in New York, Rachel Rose works across film, painting, sculpture, and drawing to explore how shifting relationships to landscape inform storytelling and systems of belief. Her practice is grounded in deep historical and material research, often focusing on moments where the boundaries between the everyday and the sublime collapse.

Her films investigate diverse subjects—from cryogenics and the American Revolutionary War to the silence of a spacewalk—while reflecting on the poetics and politics of time, perception, and mortality. Each work draws from and contributes to the history of cinematic language, combining meticulously composed imagery with layered sound and narrative.

These thematic explorations extend into her physical works, where surfaces, textures, and materials resonate with the timelines and tensions embedded in her moving images. Through this interplay, Rose constructs a world in which geological and historical deep time converge with intimate human experience.

Related works in the collection

Rachel Rose
Pitch Black Verdigris Green, 2022

Related program

The Ecologies of Peace II Exhibition