1952 年出生于德国施韦特。她在科隆的 Werkkunstschule 学习，直到 1978 年。特罗克尔的作品主题和媒介多种多样，包括纸上作品、“针织画”和雕塑。虽然很难将她的作品与某种特定的风格联系起来，但可以确定几个并存的主题，例如女性在社会中的角色、商标和符号作为社会符号和装饰品，最后，她对民族志和科学研究的迷恋，经常通过她的雕塑来表达。特罗克尔最出名的是她用机器制作的“针织画”，这些画是用放在画架上的针织羊毛材料制成的。这些作品挑战了绘画和一般艺术创作的传统观念，同时评论了女性在社会中的角色。特罗克尔通过加入徽标或符号（有时是文字）来引用流行文化，这是评论艺术商品化以及语言和视觉表现的主观性的另一种方式。
Born in Schwerte, Germany in 1952. She studied in the Werkkunstschule in Cologne until 1978. Trockel’s oeuvre is diverse in themes and mediums, which include works on paper, ‘knitted paintings’ and sculptures. Though it is difficult to associate a particular style with her work, several concurrent themes can be identified, such as the female's role in society, trademarks and symbols as social signifiers and decorations and finally, her fascination with ethnographic and scientific studies, often expressed through her sculptures. Trockel has become best known for her machine-generated ‘knitted paintings' made of knitted woolen material placed on a stretcher. These works challenge classic notions of painting and general art-making while simultaneously commenting on feminine roles in society. Trockel references popular culture through her inclusion of logos or symbols, and sometimes text, as yet another way to comment on the commodification of art and on the subjectivity of language and visual representation.
