STATEMENT OF WORK

David Roeder is an artist and music maker currently based in Berlin. His visual practice centers around painting, which he studied in Leipzig and Glasgow. These works are informed by a strong interest in the "plasticities and dissolution of the everyday" (Jessica Higgins) and are influenced by fleeting symbolic gestures and canonized culture alike. Art historical references range from medieval tapestries to color field painting, vernacular art and beyond.

With Roeder emphasizing the emotional relationship to each individual artwork, paintings from the same working period might take shape in slightly varying styles. The main focus is on what each piece needs to exist as an unique entity, charged with "feeling" in the sense of Susanne K. Langer's seminal theories. Over the years certain motifs and styles re-emerge and form conversations and clusters within his output. As such, aesthetic core interestes like the poetic simplification of subject matter, illuminating outline work and a sense of calm flatness create a clear sense of artistic vision. Humor plays an important role as well, but is always kept in check in order to avoid being lead by the head.

In regrads to the bodily and the unconscious, quality of texture and associated notions of tactility play a key role in both his visual and his musical practice, with two lps (as Nein Rodere) recently released by the London based experimental music label Horn of Plenty. Roeder also runs Verdrusz Books, an occasional publishing imprint and is active in various projects facilitating and supporting art by people with additional support needs.