Lotty Rosenfeld
Esta Línea Es Mi Arma
2025

The publication is available now until Sunday, December 21, 2025, and after the Christmas break from January 8 until the end of the exhibition on January 25, 2026, from 12 noon to 5 p.m. at the Overbeck Society at a reduced price of €22. After that, it will be available at the regular price of €29.

Esta línea es mi arma offers the first glimpse into the personal archive and family history of Chilean conceptual artist, feminist, and political activist Lotty Rosenfeld (1943–2020). Shaped by her family’s exile and growing up in the shadow of loss and resistance, she developed a radical artistic practice in the 1970s under the Pinochet dictatorship. Using the simplest of means—adhesive tape, lines, and crosses—she transformed street spaces into places of protest and collective memory. Her “symbolic acts of disobedience” challenged the visual logic of power and turned art into an instrument of political participation. The publication combines personal memories with public gestures and traces the Rosenfeld family’s journey from Jewish bourgeois life in Breslau to exile and a new beginning in Chile – showing why her white line was more than just a sign: it was a weapon of resistance.

Available from December 2025

Dimensions: 21.0 × 29.7 cm
Number of pages: 128
Illustrations: 89 color and 41 black-and-white illustrations
Cover: Softcover
ISBN978-3-7356-1087-4 Languages German and English
Edited by: Paula Kommoss, Overbeck-Gesellschaft Kunstverein Lübeck
Texts by: Paula Kommoss, Alejandra Coz Rosenfeld
Design: Marius Schwarz