Through a very personal and subjective approach to avantgarde themes, she proposed an alternative to rigid formalism and expressive painting at the beginning of the 1980s, and thus laid the foundations for what became postmodernism. Today, a few decades later, the fundamental principles of her practice and work still involve the notions of liberty and going beyond the limits of academicism, conventional associations and knowledge of language, as well as avant-garde forms and symbols. Trockel's particular attitude, whereby she clearly refers to the subjective heritage of dadaism and surrealism, allows a special context to be created for an exhibit in Belgium and in Brussels. And yet, her work has been exhibited here very rarely. This exhibition presents more than one hundred works - ensembles of wool paintings, repetitive 'cooking plates', visceral ceramics, foam sculptures and expressive collages - and attempts to provide an overview of Trockel's approach, based on works and series from the 1980s to the present, as well as others which have been made specially for this occasion. The themes are as varied as her techniques. All of this content is formulated from a precise, poetic and explicitly female perspective. The exhibition will be accompanied by a major publication that will be published in collaboration with the Kunsthalle Zürich, Museion Bolzano / Bozen and Culturgest, Lissabon.

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