2001
Trockel's gallerist, Monika Sprüth, dressed up as Madonna in the video, "Don't Tell Me." Title of work refers to Simone de Beauvoir's first novel.
52 x 40 cm (20 1/2 x 15 3/4 in.)
Rosemarie Trockel, Cologne, created, 2001 Friends of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Düsseldorf, 2008 Gift to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 2008

Plastic container of shoe polish
20th centuryGerman
Spool of thread, section of fish vertebrae, scissors, and book, in cardboard box
20th centuryGerman![[Untitled]](/images/art-placeholder.jpg)
Terracotta, metallic paint
20th centuryGerman
Graphite, black ink, oil, on off-white wove paper
20th centuryGerman
Slip case cardboard box mimicking an oversized matchbox containing a standard sized matchbox, which contains four hook screws that resemble cedillas. Also included are twenty-two die-cut cards, three leaflets, loose pages and an invitation to participate in the making of an anthology of jokes by postcard
20th centuryAmerican
Plastic rose wrapped in plastic sheeting and tied with string.
20th centuryAmerican

Printer's uncut page of sugar envelopes, stamped and inscribed
20th centuryGerman
Gelatin silver print and gold paint
20th centuryGermanEditioned booklet with metal piece from concrete casting
20th centuryGermanOffset print
Color offset lithograph
20th centurySwiss