David Röder

David Roeder is a painter among other things, and can now be found living and working in Berlin. Trialled and tested in Leipzig and Glasgow, his paintings and drawings travel scale and form and tread psychic bounds. Throwing into abstraction an index of familiar objects, the timbre of mood - rightly, chaos and cosmos - and the figure as both habitual and guised, Roeder delves into the plasticities and dissolution of the everyday. Roeder’s parallel writing practice plays out as internal and eternally questioning monologues, and ficto-materialisations of quotidian scenes. Since 2014 Roeder has run Verdrusz Books, an occasional imprint publishing visual art and writing by the artist and his peers, he also runs workshops and produces projects with people with additional support needs. His other love among many loves is music, which he makes with his friends, and sometimes on his own. (Jessica Higgins)

• 1987 born in Eden (Germany)
  2007-2013 Studies of painting at the Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig
  2010-2013 Studies in the class of Prof. Annette Schröter
  2011-2012 Studies at the School of Arts, Glasgow (Scotland)
• 2016-18 Residency and work at Project Ability, Glasgow
  lives and works in Berlin

Solo shows

• 2022 Remains Changed, Lunchtime Gallery, Glasgow
  2019 Der sehr lange Fluss der Sehnsucht, Salon Käthe Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig
  2017 Ideals for a Future Livin', Center for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
• Why do all your Mantras start with an 'I'?, 16 Nicholson Street, Glasgow
• 2016 Geh doch (nach) Reude, du Opfer!, Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig
• 2014 Verdrusz Times, God Press Gallery, Glasgow
• 2013 Mürbe & Die vom Parkplatz, Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig
  Noch bevor der Oheim hinsehen konnte kam ein Windstoß und blies alles davon, Delikatessenhaus, Leipzig
• PCNGZ, Glasgow School of Art Students' Association, Glasgow
  2012 Fragile Gang, Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig
  Secret Picnic Spot, Good Press Gallery, Glasgow (Scotland)
  2011 Sand für die Augen, Harkort art space, Leipzig

Group shows

• 2021 Dann/da/danach, Park-Klinik Weißensee, Berlin
  2019 Drawing Wow, BCMA, Berlin
  2018 I was a Teenage Medium, Glasgow Project Room
• 5 cm per Second, Plu 41, Berlin
• Studio Show, Adalbertstraße, Berlin
• Bilder, Hidden Lane, Glasgow
• Chairs are for Sitting on, The Modern Institute Glasgow
• The Everyday & the Fanstastic, Project Ability, Glasgow
• 2017 Effort, Dada Post, Berlin
• Ping Pong, King's Mall Residency, London
• Unswept House, Hidden Lane, Glasgow
• 2016 Dropping the Guru, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London
• Stoke a few lulling Cinders and let the Ash set around, Gallery Celine, Glasgow
• Grab a Chair, Flinch, The Glue Factory, Glasgow
  2015 Blind Date, Alabama Sir, Leipzig
  Portraits einer Stadt, City Hall, Wasserburg am Inn
  Radiophrenia, Center for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
  The Arbroath Template, Hospitalfield, Arbroath (Scottland)
  50 Million Painters can‘t be wrong, New Glasgow Society, Glasgow
  Artist Self-Publisher‘s Fair, Institute for Contemporary Arts, London
  2014 Blaue Perle, Kesselhaus, Bergisch Gladbach
  Summer Wine, Torna, Istanbul
  Pardon me but my Position has been struck by Lightning, The Substation, Melbourne (Australia)
• 2013 Adler mit Krone, Galerie im Bürgerhaus, Sulzfeld (Germany)
  At it's best, Sächsische Landesvertretung, Berlin
  WIN/WIN - Purchases of the Cultural Foundation of Saxony, Halle 14, Leipzig
  Degree Show, Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig
  2012 Keine Tricks, New Bretagne, Essen
  Ohne dich ist das Universum nicht schön, WKR, Leipzig
  High End, Raum 4.4, Leipzig
  The Family Show II, Good Press Gallery, Glasgow (Scotland)
  Wasserburg - Gestern/Heute/Morgen, Art association AK68, Wasserburg am Inn (Germany)
  2011 Junge Kunst 14, Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig
  Dis/Array, MZIN, Leipzig
  2010 Miss Waldrons roter Stummelaffe, Art association AK68, Wasserburg am Inn (Germany)
  Schnittstelle Druck, Museum of Visual Arts, Leipzig
  Hipp Hipp Hurra, Raum 4.4, Leipzig
  Die Druckgrafik, Art association Pfaffenhofen (Germany)
  2009 Studienpreis der HGB, Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig

Grants and Awards

• 2022 Scholarship by Stiftung wissensART, Berlin
  2015 Glasgow Visual Art & Craft Award
• 2011 Young Artist Award of the Kunstverein AK 68, Wasserburg am Inn (Germany)