Claudia Rogge

CLAUDIA ROGGE (Düsseldorf, Germany, 1968).
"Camouflage I", 2007.
Lambada print at Diasec.
Edition of 6.
Measurements: 150 x 200 cm.

Claudia Rogge is a key figure in contemporary photography, celebrated for her large-format compositions executed through sophisticated digital collages. Her work articulates theatrical and disturbing scenes where dancers, naked bodies and masked figures inhabit sublime scenarios that refer to the Sistine Chapel. In her acclaimed Ever After series (2011), Rogge reinterprets Dante Alighieri's iconography, visually citing paradise, purgatory and hell. The artist explores the aesthetics of the mass and the individual within the group - drawing inspiration from phenomena as diverse as choirs, demonstrations or communities in exile - a fascination that was already latent in her performative project Mob (2002). Trained in communication and video between Essen and Berlin, her international projection was consolidated with milestones such as her solo show at the Museum of Modern Art in Moscow (2009).