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Annina Roescheisen
(b. 1982) Rosenheim, Germany

Annina Roescheisen is a pluridisciplinary artist. Her work includes video, photography, draw- ing, painting, sculpture, installation, performance art, and documentary.

With a strong artistic heritage as the granddaughter of the German artist Ernst Moritz Geyger (1861–1941), Roescheisen graduated from the Elite University of Ludwig Maximilian, Munich, Annina Roescheisen has a Masters in History of Art, and political Philosophy and Folklore.

Roescheisen’s work has been exhibited in galleries worldwide, including the 56th Venice Bien- nale, at the GAA Foundation in the European Pavilion where her work was shown among well- known artists such as Daniel Buren and Yoko Ono. Since 2012, she has performed in Xavier Veilhan’s Systema Occam, shown at such institutions as the MAMO (Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation in Marseille), the Delacroix Museum and the Hermès Foundation in Paris, and the French Alliance Institute in New York. In 2016, Time Out New York named her as one of the top 10 emerging artists to follow.

In their 2015 review of Roescheisen’s 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.” This same work was longlisted for the 2015 Aesthetica Art Prize.

Roescheisen’s multimedia works are held together by underlying concepts such as iconog- raphy, 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 humanity.

Throughout her artistic practice a constant interplay between dream and reality takes place. Roescheisen further explores this relationship in her video work, considering the medium as “painting in motion and emotion.” Her videos are slow and deliberate, with musical composi- tions shaped to form a new level of interpretation, encouraging the viewer to exist outside the constraints of time. Her work oscillates between childhood and adulthood, shedding light on human existence in all its forms.

Through her social and philanthropic work Roescheisen has collaborated with institutions worldwide such as the United Nations Foundation and the BMW Foundation. She has been invited to speak about her practice at the World Economic Forum (Davos), Global Table (Bo- gotá & Berlin), and Summit of Peace (Bogotá). Roescheisen believes art can be useful social and political tool to promote an agenda of sustainability, social welfare, and human rights.

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