Biography
Nina Röder studied Media Art and Design with the focus on photography at Bauhaus University in Weimar/Germany. Next to her artistic activities she holds a Ph.D. in the field of artistic research. Her research focus lies on performative strategies in contemporary photography in the context of contingency. Her photographs have been shown in international festivals and museums, such as the GoaPhoto Festival in India, the European Month of Photography in Berlin or the Format Festival in Derby/UK.
Nina’s artistic focus is on photographic works that negotiate sublime structures of biographical narratives and combine aspects of the performative with the time-based image space of photography. The often absurd or poetic atmosphere of her scenographies conveys the tension of her figures’ biographical experiences. Two thematic complexes crystalize in Nina’s work: photographs taken in natural space that connect to discourses on the Anthropocene and post-Romanticism, and series that engage with biographical narratives of her family. The series about her family are explicitly searching for hidden and historical mechanisms of personality development and inherited traumas. A whimsical – often humorous – approach plays a crucial role. Nina’s photographs in the natural space negotiate different aspects of psychological states in connection with the phenomenon of letting go of people.
Since 2017 Nina is a Professor of Photography at University of Europe for Applied Sciences in Hamburg. Nina is a member of the DFA (German Photographic Academy) and the DGPh (German Photographic Society.) She lives and works in Hamburg and Berlin.