Roee Rosen

His first virtual artist was Justine Frank (1900–1943), a Jewish-Belgian surrealist painter who also authored the pornographic novel "Sweet Sweat."

In both art and writings Frank combined explicit erotic imagery with Jewish tropes and magical elements, thus assuming a highly polemic and disturbing position.

She later worked in Palestine despite appearing to be antagonistic to Zionism and refusing to speak Hebrew.

Roee Rosen (born 1963) is an Israeli multidisciplinary artist, writer and filmmaker.

Roee Rosen (born 1963 in Rehovot) studied philosophy and comparative literature studies in Tel Aviv University until 1984 and graduated with BFA from School of Visual Arts, New York in 1989.

Rosen's second major fictional artist is Maxim Komar-Myshkin (1978–2011), a pseudonym for Russian emigrant poet and painter Efim Poplavsky, born in 1978 and immigrated to Israel in 2003.

Komar-Myshkin established the "Buried Alive" collective, a group of Ex-Soviet artists who disavowed the culture surrounding them, describing themselves as "Russian cultural zombies."

The project thus entailed fabricating the work of the collective as well as that of Poplavsky.

Komar-Myshkin, according to the story, suffered acute paranoia and believed he is persecuted by Vladimir Putin.

In his major work, the album "Vladimir's Night."

he takes his revenge on the Russian president.

Produced in secrecy and supposedly discovered after the artist's death, it describes still objects assuming life so as to murder Vladimir.

The second part of the book offers annotation by yet another fictive character, Rosa Chabanova, a hybrid of fiction, political writings and theory.

Rosen received MFA from Hunter College in New York in 1991.

He is a professor at HaMidrasha – Faculty of the Arts, Beit Berl College in Kfar-Saba and at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem.

A retrospective of Frank's works was first shown in 2004.

In the short film "Two Women and a Man" (2005), Roee Rose himself appears in drag as Joanna Führer-Hasfari, a scholar of Frank's work, and uses this guise to attack himself for appropriating Frank's legacy.

Manifesta 7, 2007, Trento, Italy.

Films by Rosen include:

The fabrication of the project entailed a book combining Frank's own novel with her biography and a theoretical essay, entitled Sweet Sweat (Sternberg Press, 2009).

Taipei Biennial, Taiwan, 2012, "Animism" at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, "Host & Guest," the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, "Cargo-Cult" in Bat Yam Museum of Art.

AV Festival in Newcastle upon Tyne, 2016 "Gender in art" in Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków, Monday Begins on Saturday, The First Edition of the Bergen Assembly, Bergen, Norway.

His work has been described by Hila Peleg for Documenta 14 (2017) as creating " ... an artistic universe that treacherously undermines the normative implications of identities and identifications through fictionalization, irony, and revision. In untold variations, he typically links current Israeli and world politics with mythical and political references to European and Jewish history. Using a vast array of fictional characters and iconographic motifs and codes, Rosen frequently refers to, and transforms, not only the canon of the historical avant-garde and transgressive traditions from the Marquis de Sade to Georges Bataille, but also popular media, political propaganda, and classic children's fairy tales."

As part of his art, Rosen invented non existing artists.

Documenta 14, 2017 in Athens and Kassel.

Several retrospective screenings programs were dedicated to Roee Rosen's cinematic production, amongst them at the FICUNAM International Film Festival, Mexico City (2018), MUMOK, Vienna (2014), La Roche Sur Yon International Film Festival (2013), and the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival (2012).

Rosen also held numerous one person exhibitions in Rosenfeld Gallery in Tel Aviv, The Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, and other venues.

Vos désirs sont les nôtres, Le Friche, Marseille (2018).