Annina Roescheisen is multidisciplinary fine artist. Her work includes video, photography, drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, performance art, and documentary. Roescheisen explores universal existential questions and the intricate interplay between art and consciousness.
Roescheisen’s early work weaves autobiographical elements with deeper themes including iconography, poetry, literature, medieval art, German Romanticism, Gothic architecture, and fairy tales. Influenced by religious imagery, literary and poetic traditions, spiritual philosophy, and the mysticism of nature, she channels her Northern European heritage—drawing heavily from German Romanticism and transcendental thought.
Roescheisen graduated from the Elite University of Ludwig Maximilian, Munich with a Masters in History of Art, Political Philosophy and Folklore. She is the granddaughter of the German artist Ernst Moritz Geyger (1861-1941).
Roescheisen’s work has been exhibited in galleries worldwide, including the 56th Venice Biennale, at the GAA Foundation in the context of the European Pavilion where her work was shown among artists such as Daniel Buren and Yoko Ono. Since 2012 she is performing in ”Systema Occam” by highly acclaimed 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 2016, Time Out New York named her as one of the top 10 emerging artists to follow. In their 2015 review of her series, “What are You Fishing For”, Wall Street International emphasized “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 the context of Roescheisen’s social and philanthropic engagements, through her project entitled #WhatBringsPeace (2016 -2019) she collaborated with institutions worldwide such as the United Nations Foundation and the BWM Foundation Herbert Quandt. Roescheisen was invited as a public speaker at the World Economic Forum (Davos), Global Table (Bogota & Berlin), and Summit of Peace (Bogotá), speaking about the importance and impact of art on a personal as well as global scale.
Annina Roescheisen lives and works between New York and Munich.