Isa Genzken MoMA T-Shirt

a poorly photographed vitrine at daniel buchholz nyc gallery has the shadow of a blogger's hand and phone hovering over and slightly obstructing a fussily folded white t-shirt with a color print of isa genzken's 2007 sculpture rose ii, a 11-meter tall metal painted rose, mostly stem to get it up high. moma's logo and the caption/title of the work and credit to the artist's galleries are printed in black underneath. march 2026

My apologies, Ms. Genzken, I did not recognize your merch game.

When I snapped this MoMA t-shirt at the Daniel Buchholz show, I assumed it had been just some merch, or one of the museum’s Uniqlo collabs, readily findable. But so far there is no trace.

Is it a mockup? A prototype? The credit format throws me. It feels like, which party would put “©ARS, New York” like that?

isa genzken painted metal rose statue is 11 meters tall and mostly stem. it sits on a weighted base on the garden porch at moma against a reflective black stone wall and a grid of windows facing the lobby.
Isa Genzken, Rose II, 2007, AP from an ed.3+1AP, lacquered aluminum & steel, 11 meters high, installed at MoMA in 2013, acquired 2014]

The photo of the sculpture, Rose II (2007), is MoMA-specific. The highlights of the morning light hitting the painted highlights of the rose petals and leaves matches MoMA’s own image of the work installed at the west end of the Sculpture Garden. [If it’s the same edition, from November 2010 until August 2013, it was on the facade of the New Museum, which dated it as 2008.]

a photo of a 11 meter tall painted metal rose that is mostly stem appears to be embedded straight into the stone paving of moma's sculpture garden porch. a grid of windows on the right and a reflective black stone in the background oddly do not show the rose by isa genzken reflected. a poorly photoshopped image made by moma for a postcard printed in 2019
some postcard on ebay

The t-shirt obviously cropped out the sculpture’s base. Interestingly, the base was also edited out of the photo on this 2019 MoMA postcard [ganked from ebay, not important now]. Which also clumsily cloned out the reflection of the base from the black glass wall of the porch.

In any case, before I get too far into conceptual bootleg territory, I’d like to figure out what this actually was. It’d be sick to make an intensely artisanal, 15-color screenprint, only to find out the shirt was Uniqlo junk.