Posenenske created series of sculptures that explored systems and structures derived from mass production and standardization.
Posenenske studied painting with Willi Baumeister in the early 1950s at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart.
[3] After early, improvised “art informel” paintings made with a palette knife or spray gun, she in 1967 and 1968 turned to industrially inspired sculptures of aluminum, steel or cardboard, whose modular components could be combined and reproduced at will.
In 1968 Posenenske published a statement in the journal Art International referencing the reproducibility of her works, and her desire for the concept and ownership of the piece to be accessible: Poseneske stopped working as an artist in 1968, no longer believing that art could influence social behavior or draw attention to social inequalities.
She retrained as a sociologist and became a specialist in employment and industrial working practices, particularly assembly line production, until her death in 1985.