short biography
Julian Röder (born 1981),
was born in Erfurt, and grew up in Berlin. After an apprenticeship as a photographer at the agency OSTKREUZ he studied photography at the School of Visual Arts in Leipzig. 2009, he graduated with a diploma under the supervision of Prof. Ute Mahler at the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg.
Since 2001 he is pursuing the long-term documentation project 'The Summits' wherein he is picturing protests at the edges of the security zones of state summits. His works have been widely published and exhibited. In 2003 he was a student at the Joop Swart Masterclass of the World Press Photo Foundation. In 2004 he became a member of the agency OSTKREUZ and received the Kodak Young Talent Award. He lives in Berlin.
CV
Education
| 2009 | Degree in photography at the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg |
| 2007 | Bachelor´s degree in photography at the School of Visual Arts in Leipzig |
| 2003 | student at the Joop Swart Masterclass of the World Press Photo Foundation y |
| 1999- 2002 |
apprenticing at OSTKREUZ - The Photographers Agency y |
| 1998 | graduate from „Stadt als Schule“ (“city as school“), Berlin |
grants/awards:
| 2010 | Nomination for the Koerber-Foto-Award |
| 2006 | Artist in residens projekt at the Goethe-Institut and the Institut Francaise in Alexandria, Egypt |
| 2004 | Kodak Young Talent Award |
| 2002 | Deutscher Jugendfotopreis |
selected exhibitions
| 2010 | Hijacked 2 - Australia / Germany, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia |
| 2010 | The City. Becoming and Decaying. C/O Berlin - International Forum For Visual Dialogues, Berlin, Germany |
| 2010 | The XXth Century - People-Places-Times, Two Decades of the German Historical Museums' Photo Collection Berlin, Germany |
| 2010 | Der Einzelne und sein Leben im System, Haus der Photographie in den Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany |
| 2008 | The Destruction Of Atlantis, Union Gallery, London, United Kingdom |
| 2008 | Re-Orientations, Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, New York, United States of America |
| 2008 | The Summits, Einstein Forum, Potsdam, Germany |
| 2007 | Art goes Heiligendamm, Rostock, Germany Art interventions on the occasion of the G8 summit 2007, Curator: Adrienne Goehler |
| 2006 | Photobiennale 2006, House of Photography, Moscow, Russia 81% have fallen in love |
| 2006 | Eine Frage nach der Geste, Opera Leipzig, Germany Curator: Prof. Tina Bara, Prof. Alba D’Urbano |
| 2006 | GlobalLocal, Alexandria, Egypt at Goethe Institute and French Culture Center in Alexandria |
| 2005 | Random Happenings, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark Curator: Jesper Elg, Peter Funch |
| 2005 | Neueinstellung, Pfefferberg, Berlin, Germany Curator: Ostkreuz |
| 2005 | Nachtisch, Spinnerei galery, Leipzig, Germany Curator: Michael Mauracher |
| 2004 | Aufruhr der Gefühle, Museum for photography Braunschweig + Kunsthalle Göppingen, Germany Curator: Wiebke Ratzeburg, Carina Herring |
| 2004 | Utopia Station, TAT, Frankfurt, Germany Curator: Molly Nesbit, Ariane Beyn, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Rikrit Tiravanija |
| 2003 | Indeterminate! Kommunismus, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt, Germany |
| 2003 | Enough, Foam_Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, Holland Curator: Francois Hébel |
