Kunstverein in Hamburg presents exhibitions by Lenke Rothman and Hsu Che-Yu with Chen Wan-Yin

The Kunstverein in Hamburg presents Quality of Life, the first comprehensive survey of the Swedish Hungarian artist Lenke Rothman outside of Sweden. From the 1950s until her death in 2008, Rothman developed a unique œuvre where aspects of the everyday are set against her biographical and historic backdrop. Characterised by the radical processing of a lived present after the Shoah, Rothman’s practice negotiates lines of temporality and transience through, amongst other things, the preservation of ephemeral and overlooked materials in a body of work that moves from abstract painting in the 1950s and 60s into the vocabulary of post-conceptual feminist sculpture in the 1970s and 80s. Rothman was immersed in the literary milieu in Sweden and shared a close friendship with Nobel Laureate Nelly Sachs. Despite her own foray into writing, Rothman’s work