Nina Röder
Marienbad am Meer
10.3. – 6.4.
2023
Berlin
Part of EMOP Berlin
Artist Talk
with Miriam Zlobinski & Nina Röder
Sat, 1 April 2023, 3 pm
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For the first time, Nina Röder shows works from her long-term project in which she uses the Czech spa town Marienbad as the backdrop for a play with biographical and fictional identity constructions.
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In the late 1920s, Röder's great-grandfather worked as a concierge at the hotel then called Bayerischer Hof in Marienbad; his family lived in the neighboring village of Chodský Újezd.
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Since her childhood, Röder has regularly traveled with her family to the place her grandparents called home.
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Accordingly, alluding to Shakespeare and Bachmann, Marienbad is stylized as a utopian place of longing whose neo-kitsch aesthetic can be seen as ‘too decadent for today's taste’.
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In the apparent light-heartedness of the place, Röder repeatedly stages her mother in absurd and bizarre situations, in addition to erotically connoted motifs.
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With this series, Röder ties in with earlier works on family narratives that follow the quest for knowledge about one's own origins.
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