BONN.- For his first solo-exhibition in Kunstmuseum Bonn, Roth presents an installation using photography and sculpture. In recent years Roth has gained critical acclaim for his multi-media installations where the objects and images within serve as documentary evidence to a fantastic event or phenomenon that has been uncovered. Through his keen observations the artist, part detective, part archeologist, finds connections to seemingly unrelated events and places, therefore revealing hidden relationships.

Daniel Roth, born 1969 in Schramberg/Black Forest, is undoubtedly among the most important contemporary German artists and is now being introduced to a larger public with his first sizeable museum exhibition.

Since 2007 he has been a professor at the State Academy of Visual Arts in Karlsruhe and a resident of Basel, Daniel Roth has espoused an approach that forswears the usual categorization into clearly defined genres. His multipartite works are always narrative complexes in which “reality” and “fiction” intersect, while basically inciting the viewer’s own imagination. In his site-specific works, the drawings, objects, photographs, texts, things documented and invented, all interlock. In the seeming contradiction between formal clarity and thematic openness, Daniel Roth, in his own inimitable way, transforms the concrete space and clears the way for a new narrative potential of present-day art.

His work has been exhibited widely in Europe including solo exhibitions at the Kunsthaus Glarus, Artist Space in New York and the Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig as the 2003 recipient of the Leipzig Prize. Roth was also included in the Antipodes series of exhibitions curated by Louise Neri at White Cube in London. Essays on his work have been published in Tema Celeste and Frieze . The artist currently lives and works in Karlsruhe, Germany.