It is impossible to imagine a museum without display cases and cabinets. Objects are kept protected behind their doors and in their compartments. Almost inevitably, however, a fascination for what is behind them, for what is hidden, develops out of the closing. Where Rozendaal's Cabinets intervene in the rooms of the Museum Folkwang, the objects of the collection respond: they speak of lock and key, of color and pattern, of mobility and changeability, and of the multiple levels on which creativity develops.

At the center of the Cabinets series are concepts such as abstraction and compression. In various locations of the Museum Folkwang, in the Gartensaal or in the passagen, his imagined and digitally distributed NFT works materialize. For this purpose, the artist has created a modular system of surfaces, colors and proportions that finds its way from an abstract to a figurative form through small circles alone. Industrially standardized processes resonate in the murals, which are variable in proportion, size, and texture and incorporate the architecture of the house. From the idea to the programming, the code, and the painterly ductus on the museum wall, various expertises play into the realization of the works Rozendaal draws upon.


Cabinets, 2022
Murals
NFTs (on-chain .svg)
Code by Reiner Feijen & Alberto Granzotto
Realization by Lea Carla Dieselhorst

Cabinet 3, 2022
Collection 0x1D6...37b

Cabinet 12, 2022
Family Collection Klinkhamer

Cabinet 29, 2022
Collection of the Artist

Cabinet 36, 2022
Collection of Marco Roso

Cabinet 37, 2022
Collection Nieck & Vanes de Bruijn


Cabinet 25, 2022
Collection p1xelfool
Plus showcases in the sculpture aisle from the collection Museum Folkwang, Essen:

Display case 1:
China (?)
Anonymous artist
Guanyin, before 1921

Display case 2:
Turkey, Iznik
Anonymous artist
Border tile, c. 1575

Display case 3:
Belgium or Netherlands
Anonymous artist
Bottle, 18th c.

Display case 4:
Germany
Anonymous artists
Cassette, c. 1580-1599

Germany, Kingdom of Prussia, Berlin
Chamberlain's key, around 1800

Europe
Anonymous artists
2 fittings, 19th c. 

Germany
Anonymous artist
Cassette, 17th c.

Display case 5:
Fulvio Bianconi (1915-1996)
Vetri Soffiati Muranesi Venini e C.
Vase, c. 1953
A Fasce di Colore