Bunny Rogers at Palais Populaire Public sculpture unveiled in Berlin

Bunny Rogers, born in Houston in 1990, was socialized with the Internet. She grew up in the late 1990s with online communities such as AOL Kids and Second Life, and on the platform Neopets she designed digital figures for the virtual planet Neopia, which is inhabited by Neopets and other creatures. Her enigmatic sculptures, installations, paintings, performances, and videos made her a shooting star of the young U.S. scene. In them, she conjures up a traumatic teen cosmos that penetrates deep into America’s psyche and social reality.

Her bronze-cast Techo Statue (turquoise), 2021, which will be presented in front of the PalaisPopulaire, was created from Roger’s early designs and ties in to a sense of community and the utopian idea of building new worlds. Yet this work also has the gothic appeal so typical of Rogers, with figures reminiscent of ancient gargoyles.