Charlotte Posenenske

Charlotte Posenenske (1930–1985) worked as an artist for a mere ten years, between 1959 and 1968. During that time, she developed a radical body of work, exploring transitions from the pictorial surface to space, from sculpture to performance, and from sculpture to architecture. Posenenske was one of the few Europeans who adopted the principles of American Minimalism―seriality, delegation of production...―but her work stands apart from that movement nonetheless through its avowed social and participative dimension. Echoing the political demands that rocked the 1960s, it was this commitment that would lead her to abandon art for sociology.