PCAI Collection Artist Mika Rottenberg

PCAI Collection artist Mika Rottenberg’s first solo exhibition “Vibrant Matter” in Spain features the celebrated video installations, ‘Cosmic Generator’ (2017) and ‘Spaghetti Blockchain’ (2019), alongside her latest Lampshares (2024 – 2025), carved from bittersweet vines and reclaimed plastic.

For decades Mika Rottenberg has addressed our relationship with capitalist systems of production and labor, realizing a labyrinth of disparate worlds through seductive multidimensional works. She draws attention to the absurdity of our global situation, harnessing imagery that is simultaneously pleasurable and troubling, blurring facts with fiction, the natural with the artificial.

Mika Rottenberg notes: ‘I am interested in these human-made systems where the starting point is to have no clue what is really going on and to try to impose a certain logic on things, and the madness of that.’

About the artist:

Argentina-born, New York-based artist Mika Rottenberg is devoted to a rigorous practice that combines film, architectural installation and sculpture to explore ideas of labor and production in our contemporary hyper-capitalist world. Her solo exhibition ‘Antimatter Factory’ is currently on view at Kunst Haus Wien, Austria until 10 August 2025, having traveled from the Musée Tinguely in Basel, Switzerland (2024). ‘Queer Ecology’ at Lehmbruck Museum, Germany is on view from 27 September 2025 – 22 February 2026. Other recent European solo presentations include the Louisiana Museum in Humlebæk, Denmark (2021) and the premiere of her first feature-length film ‘REMOTE’ (2022), co-created with Mahyad Tousi and commissioned by Artangel, United Kingdom; the Louisiana Museum, Humlebæk; and Moderna Museet, Stockholm, at Tate Modern, London in 2022. ‘Installations II: Video from the Guggenheim Collections’ was on view at Guggenheim Bilbao from 2009 – 2010. Rottenberg was the recipient of the 2019 Kurt Schwitters Prize, which recognizes artists who have made a significant contribution to the field of contemporary art. In 2018, she was winner of the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s James Dicke Contemporary Art Prize, which recognizes an artist younger than 50 who has produced a significant body of work and consistently demonstrates exceptional creativity.

Dates: 10 May – 26 October 2025