"Isa Rosenberger's artistic interest is historiographical, as she takes a close look at the writing of history, its abbreviations, omissions and rewritings. With her film installations and photographic works she often sets out in search of traces of history  to give space and visibility to the hidden, repressed and forgotten, mostly intersectional feminist and often Jewish women's history. 

The projects are often created in collaborative processes and in multidisciplinary exchange with artists, cultural scientists and contemporary witnesses. Rosenberger combines the (body) knowledge of her mostly female protagonists, their personal but also generation-defining experiences with socio-political events in the past and present. Conversations with contemporary witnesses, documentary and fictional modes of narration, performative approaches and (re-)enactments create a web of connections, continuities, interruptions and synchronicities - in short: a multi-perspective historiography in which gaps and voids are constitutive. Rosenberger links these with current issues and discourses: the voluntary or forced migration of people, but also of knowledge, economic crises and criticism of capitalism or the creative and self-empowering handling of economic and political adversity. In this way, the present writes itself into the past and the past comes alive in the present."

- Barbara Steiner &  Alexandra Trost, from the press release for the exhibition "Isa Rosenberger, Shadows, Gaps, Voids", Kunsthaus Graz, 2023

Isa Rosenberger (*1969, Salzburg, Austria) studied at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. Her work has been shown internationally in numerous group and solo exhibitions, solo exhibitions include: 2023 Bauhaus Dessau Foundation; Kunsthaus Graz. 2020 Camera Austria, Graz. 2019 Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna. 2014 Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles. 2011 Grazer Kunstverein. 2009 Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art, Oldenburg. 2008 Secession Vienna. In 2008 she received the Otto Mauer Prize and in 2012 the Outstanding Artist Award for Video and Media Art. She lives and works in Vienna. 

Rosenberger's works are held in permanent collections at Belvedere Museum Wien; Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz; Collection of Wien Museum, Vienna; Collection of Dom Museum Wien, OM Contemporary; Fotosammlung des Bundes - Museum der Moderne Salzburg; GfZK Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig.