Annina Roescheisen


Annina Roescheisen is a German-Slovenian multi-media artist that resides and works between Munich and New York City.
With a strong artistic heritage as the granddaughter of German artist Ernst Moritz Geyger, Roescheisen graduated from the Elite University of Ludwig Maximilian, Munich, Annina Roescheisen has a Masters in History of Art, and political Philosophy and Folklore.
In 2015, her exhibition What Are You Fishing For was displayed at the Palazzo Bembo as part of the 56th Venice Biennale and was nominated for the Aesthetica Art Prize. The series was also displayed at the Elliot Levenglick Gallery in New York City.

Early life and career

Born in Germany in 1982 to a German father and Slovenian mother, Roescheisen spent her childhood in Munich. She received her master's degree in History of Art, Philosophy and Folklore from the Ludwig Maximillian University of Munich.
In 2006, Roescheisen began working at Sotheby's in Munich. In 2008, she moved to Paris and in 2015 to New York.
In 2012, Roescheisen began making her own art, using photography, video, sculpture, installation and other mediums. Roescheisen opened two exhibitions in Paris in 2013. In 2015, her exhibition What Are You Fishing For was displayed at the Palazzo Bembo as part of the 56th Venice Biennale. Roescheisen was awarded the BORN Art Award for her A Love Story exhibition in 2015.
Since 2012 she is performing in”Systema Occam” by French contemporary artist Xavier Veilhan. This performance was shown at the MAMO/ Le Corbusier in Marseille, the Delacroix Museum in Paris, the Hermès Foundation in Paris, and the French Alliance Institute in New York, to name a few.
In their 2015 review of her series, “What are You Fishing For”, Wall Street International emphasised that “Her “holistic” approach to art allows for a broad spectrum of activities and has seen the artist become an active participator in the human rights field and a collaborator with fellow artists.”
In 2016, Time Out New York named her as one of the top 10 emerging artists to follow.

Artistic themes

Roescheisen is a multi disciplinary artist. Her work includes video, photography, drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, performance art, and documentary.
Roescheisen’s multimedia works are held together by underlying concepts such as iconography, poetry, literature, Medieval art, German Romanticism, Gothic architecture, the fairytale, the inspection of dream and reality, and the visible and invisible world. But above all her work deals with the observation, reflection and investigation of humans and their emotions.
Throughout her artistic practice a constant interplay between dream and reality takes place. The medium of video is used to further explore this relationship where it is considered ‘painting in motion and emotion’. The videos are slow and deliberate, the music compositions shaped to form a new level of interpretation, encouraging the viewer to exist outside time constraints, constrictions and pressures. Her work shifts between childhood and adulthood, shedding light on human existence in all its forms.
Roescheisen states:
Art, is a non-verbal and universal, free language, that raises awareness and brings us back to our emotional truths.
Where the simple word often seems stuck in the brain, the artistic visual language pierces on our emotional body, therefore revealing our emotional truths.
We often understand color as a unity, we don’t tend to divide them into its components.
A color stays the same, while our vision of color is dynamic.

Philanthropy

In the context of Roescheisen’s social and philanthropic engagements she collaborates with institutions worldwide such as the United Nations Foundation and the BWM Foundation. She was invited to numerous public talks including the World Economic Forum, Global Table, and Summit of Peace, to speak and share the impact and importance of art from an interdisciplinary approach. She believes art can be used to ensure and engage in collaborations with governments, institutions, NGOs, as well as locally with universities and individuals to promote an agenda of sustainability, social welfare, and human rights.
In 2013, Roescheisen served as the "godmother" of the Ninoo Association for Autistic Children. In 2016, Roescheisen began working on the project The Exit Fairytale of Suicide to raise suicide awareness in collaboration with the German organization Freunde fürs Leben.

Exhibitions

Selected solid exhibitions

2019
-Solo Exhibition “Bridging Grey”, Ki Smith Gallery, New York
-Solo Exhibition “Unsung Heroes”, Speerstra Gallery, Bursin
2018
-Solo Exhibition “Black and Blue”, Speerstra Gallery, Paris
-Solo Exhibition “Ethereal Souls” & Artist Residency, HUSH Gallery, Istanbul
-Solo Exhibition at DDessin Drawing Fair, curated and organized by Eve de Medeiros, Paris
-Solo Exhibition at Artrooms Roma Art Fair, exhibiting “What Are You Fishing For?”, Church Palace, Rome, created by Cristina Cellini Antonini, founder of Le Dame Art Gallery
2017
-#WhatBringsPeace project launch, Frank Pages Gallery & VAF Vision Art Festival, Crans Montana/ Geneva
2016
-Studio Vendome Gallery, Digital Art Canvas curated and presented by Joseph Kraeutler, in collaboration with Samsung, NYC
2015
-Elliott Levenglick Gallery, NYC
2014
-Espace Gloow, 2014, Paris
2013
-Gallery Art Cube, Paris

Selected group exhibitions

2018
-Group Exhibition, Pen and Brush Gallery, New York
-Exhibition “Vertical Poesy”, Annina Roescheisen & Antoine Vidal, Gallery FreeStudios, Geneva
-Charity Gala & Auction for the “Bal de Printemps” organized by the IRP Foundation, Geneva
2017
-Miami Art Basel, Exhibition Videowork, private Viewing and diner in collaboration with Blackdove x Kevin Barry Fine Art x Aimen Chouchane PR, Miami
-“Das DaSein” at Circle Culture Gallery, Berlin
-Leonardo di Caprio Foundation, Gala & Auction, St. Tropez Vineyard Domaine Bertraud Belieu
-Museum Exhibition curated by Apostrophe NY at MANA Contemporary Art Museum, NJ
-Gala for the BFAMI, British Friends of the Art Museum of Israel, Exhibition in the CHRISTIE’s Auction among: Ron Arad, Tracey Emin, Anish Kapoor, Alex Katz, etc., London
2016
-Art Lima Fair, Yam Gallery Mexico City, Lima
-Cabinet of Curiosity of Thomas Erber, Palais Royal, Colette Store, Gallery Molière, Paris
-Womanity Foundation, Charity Gala with an Auction held by Christie’s, Geneva,
-Frank Pages Gallery, “Young Collective”, Geneva,
2015
-Venice Biennale, GAAF Foundation, Palazzo Bembo & Mora: European Pavilion, Venice
-Aesthetica Art Prize, longlisted, St.Mary’s Abbey, York
-Art Toronto, Fair, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery NYC, Toronto
2014
-Art Up, Fair, Gallery Cedric Bacqueville, Lille
-Fair in Off, Off Fiac, Paris
2013
-VIC, Very Important Chair, Charity Exhibition at Peugot, Paris

Performances

With Xavier Veilhan & Eliane Radigue, “Systema Occam”, 2013 – 2016
Nantes, Lieu Unique, June 2016, Nantes
Delacroix Museum, September 2014, Paris
Hermes Foundation, November 2013, Paris
FIAF, French Alliance Institute, September 2013, New York
MAMO & Ora Ito, at Le Corbusier’s Cité Radieuse, June 2013, Marseille

Public talks, screenings and artist panels

2017
Global Forum of the BWM Foundation Herbert Quandt
-#WhatBringsPeace project film viewing and panel at the Global Forum: “Restoring Responsibility and Trust”, Berlin
-Global Table Event of the BMW Foundation
  1. WhatBringsPeace project panel: “Transitional Justice in post conflict societies and authorities”, Bogotá
-TOA TECH Summit, Artist Panel 13 July: Funkhaus Berlin – ” Virtue or Vice? When Art & Social Media ally in a panhuman quest for Peace”, Berlin
-BORN AWARDS, Jury Born Awards, Born.com in collaboration with Land Rover, London & Norway
WEF World Economy Forum, Talk about #WhatBringsPeace project in collaboration with the United Nations Foundation & the Guggenheim Museum, Davos
2016
-NYU University NYC – Screening: “The Exit Fairytale of Suicide” & Artist Panel with Dr.Joan Wheelis MD, New York
-Screening & Panel “The Exit Fairytale of Suicide”, 2 days, Soho House Berlin, Public & Private Event with -German Suicide Prevention Organisation “Freunde fürs Leben”, Berlin
-Screening and Artist Panel/ Interview held by Loyse de Pury, Ace Hotel Shoredtich, London
-Screening: “A Love Story” at New York New Filmmakers, Anthology Theater, July 2016, New York
-Screening: “A Love Story” at Love International Film Festival, July 2016, Los Angeles
-March – Speechless Film Festival, Mankato, 2016, Minnesota

Awards

2017
-Celeste Art Prize, longlisted, London
2016
-International Award of Outstanding Excellence – by IFFPIE – Internat. Film Festival for Peace, Inspiration & Equality, Jakarta
-Born Award, Category Art, Born.com & Land Rover Group, ” La Belle Création” for the piece of videoart “A Love Story”, Courchevel
-Award of Merit – Best female filmmaker of the “Best Short Film Festival”, International Competition
-International Short Film category –Award for A Love Story, Love International Film Festival, Los Angeles
-Speechless Film Festival, Speechless Shorts –Award for A Love Story, Mankato, Minnesota
2015
-Aesthetica Art Prize, longlisted, St. Mary’s Abbey
-Best Short Film Festival, Award of Merit: Best Women Filmmaker: category for A Love Story, International Competition. Los Angeles

Publications

-Crossing Boarders, Personal Structures, GAAF Foundation, Venice Biennale. Ed. European Cultural Center, 2015
-Lillie – une aventure vers la lumière, ed. La Baleine Project, 2013
-Over the Rainbow, ed. La Baleine Project, 2013