On View: September 5 – December 19, 2025
July 2, 2025 (Berlin, Germany) – ARTEFACT Gallery is pleased to announce Hold the Line, a solo exhibition by German-born, New York-based multimedia artist Annina Roescheisen, on view from September 5 – December 19, 2025. Following numerous solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Paris, and Switzerland, this exhibition marks Roescheisen’s long-awaited return to Germany and her first solo show in Berlin. While her work has been previously included in group and institutional exhibitions in the country, Hold the Line offers the first dedicated solo insight into her practice in her homeland — affirming ARTEFACT’s commitment to introducing distinct voices to Berlin’s contemporary art scene. The exhibition features a series of new works on canvas and paper and debuts THE CRIMSON, a new series the artist has been developing.
Rooted in her ongoing exploration of the intangible, Hold the Line follows a metaphysical red thread — a visual and conceptual motif that appears in sewn lines and symbolizes coherence and presence. Through the fluid interplay of gesture, color, and texture, Roescheisen has developed a symbolic visual language defined by restraint and clarity. Her compositions use space not as emptiness, but as presence, distilling each element to its essence with quiet conviction.
Roescheisen brings together drawing, painting, and textile art in a cohesive narrative. Deep ultramarine strokes sweep across canvas and paper, shifting between precise and intuitive gestures. Each mark carries rhythm, soft yet assertive, balancing vulnerability with strength. Threaded throughout is a hand-sewn red line, active and intentional, moving quietly through each piece like a steady pulse. It animates the stillness, connecting what is seen with what is felt. Color serves as the emotional core: blue evokes contemplation and the unseen, while red grounds the work in memory and embodiment. Together, they create a balance between motion and pause, matter and spirit.
Rather than offering fixed meanings, Roescheisen’s work invites perception over interpretation. Gesture becomes atmosphere; meaning arises through resonance. To hold the line is, in her practice, to remain grounded while staying open — a stillness that flows, rather than resists.
This sensibility extends across her wider practice. Working across video, photography, sculpture, installation, painting, and drawing, Roescheisen explores the emotional and philosophical dimensions of human existence. Her work is shaped by a deeply introspective gaze and a fascination with symbolism, color, and the metaphysical. Drawing on influences from medieval iconography to contemporary aesthetics, she crafts a poetic language that questions how we relate to ourselves, to others, and to the world around us.
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Hold the Line will be on view at ARTEFACT Gallery from September 5 – December 19, 2025.
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About Annina Roescheisen
Annina Roescheisen (b. 1982, Rosenheim, Germany) is an artist based in New York. While she primarily focuses on painting and drawing, Roescheisen practices in a wide range of additional media such as sculpture, installation, video, photography, and performance art. Roescheisen explores the nature of perception and aesthetic processing, investigating the boundaries between polarities such as dream and reality, visible and invisible, audible and inaudible. Her work invites the viewer to immerse themselves in the frequencies of color and their transcendent impact on our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual bodies.
Drawing inspiration from religious iconography, poetry, literature, bestiaries, spiritual philosophy and nature mysticism, Roescheisen brings her northern European cultural heritage—German romanticism, transcendentalism, gothic architecture, Nordic shamanism, myths and fairy tales—into her art. Her work embodies humanity’s enduring fascination with the occult and the supernatural. Utilizing alchemical mixtures of pigments and minerals, Roescheisen intuitively shapes and structures elements on canvas, with the resulting ‘pictures’ signaling an intimate connection between the artist‘s body and the creative process. Herein lie the resonances of her practice with the transformative and transcendent aspirations of post-war artists. While John Cage or Pat Steir, for instance, drew spiritual inspiration from Buddhism, and Eva Hesse from her Jewish heritage, Roescheisen nourishes her practice with a multiplicity of wisdom traditions. Her series Vibrational Strings (2019-2021), Flying Dragons (2020-2022), as well as her ongoing work include metaphysical and mathematical codes that engage with the profound connections between the visible and the invisible, the tangible and the spiritual. Through her art, Roescheisen explores universal existential questions and the intricate interplay between art and consciousness. Her works evoke introspection, inviting viewers to contemplate the mystery of existence and their own spirituality. Roescheisen summons us to perceive the world beyond the limitations of our senses—to hear beyond the audible frequencies that meet our ears, to see beyond the visible light that meets our eyes and feel energies beyond the tactile capacities of the skin.
Roescheisen‘s work has been presented in solo exhibitions in galleries across Europe and the United States. She has participated in group exhibitions such as the 56th Venice Biennale (2015), Salon Berlin at the Museum Frieder Burda (2019), the Delacroix Museum 2014 and Hermès Foundation 2013 in Paris, among others.
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Image Credits:
1. Annina Roescheisen ‘THE CRIMSON N9’, 2025. Ink, yarn, mixed media on raw canvas. 23.6 x 31.5 inches (60 x 80 cm). Courtesy of the artist and ARTEFACT Gallery.
2. Annina Roescheisen ‘THE CRIMSON N7’, 2025. Ink, yarn, mixed media on raw canvas. 23.6 x 31.5 inches (60 x 80 cm). Courtesy of the artist and ARTEFACT Gallery.
3. Portrait of Annina Roescheisen. Photography by Steve Stills.