Charlotte Posenenske: Installation Views

In her Manifesto, Charlotte Posenenske (1930-1985) stated: “I find it difficult to come to terms with the fact that art can contribute nothing to the solution of pressing social problems.”

Developing her artistic practice throughout the 1960s, Posenenske produced a body of work that uniquely combined several strands of the art of the period: conceptualism, minimalism, and socially engaged participatory art. Her Manifesto, published in Art International in May 1968, lays out the social demands on art as well as the impossibility of fulfilling those demands. Shortly after its publication, Posenenske left the art world behind to pursue her studies in sociology, undertaking a new career in that field.