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.

list of exhibitions

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

 curriculum vitae:

since
2007
Member of OSTKREUZ-Agency
since
2003
study photography at Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (Akadamy of visual arts) in Leipzig
1999-
2002
apprenticeship as a photographer at OSTKREUZ-Agency
1998 graduate from „Stadt als Schule“ (“city as school“), Berlin
1981 born in Erfurt, grow up in Berlin

 Awards and Scholarships:

2004 Kodak Nachwuchsförderpreis
2003 Student at Joop Swart Masterclass of the World Press Photo Foundation
2002 Deutscher Jugendfotopreis, (Award for young photography, Germany)