Drawings, Collages, and Book Drafts presents a concentrated view of Rosemarie Trockel’s works on paper, revealing drawing and

collage as central arenas of experimentation within her broader practice. These works function less as preparatory material than as autonomous sites where ideas are tested, disrupted, and recomposed.

Trockel’s drawings and collages are marked by shifts between intuition and analysis, wit and severity. Images, texts, and found elements are juxtaposed in ways that resist stable meaning, exposing cultural codes, gendered assumptions, and systems of knowledge. The book drafts extend this logic into sequences, treating the book as a thinking device rather than a finished product.

The publication highlights the provisional and speculative quality of these works. It presents Trockel’s paper-based practice as a space of continuous inquiry, where artistic thought unfolds through fragmentation, contradiction, and critical play.