Mercedes Wagner
lens-based artist
german-peruvian-austrian
*1984
Education
2013-2018: MA Photography Studies and Practice, Folkwang University of the Arts Essen, GER 2015-2016: Research and study trips in Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Chile, Brazil 2015: Masterclass Contemporary Photography, Centro de la Imagen Lima, PER 2006-2011: BA Scenography and Costume, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hannover, GER 2004-2005: Magister Studies of Philosophy, Gender Studies, Economic & Social History, Georg-August-University Goettingen, GER
Purchases
2021 Photo collection of the Federal Government, on permanent loan at the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, AT
Grants
2021: Project funding, Linden Limmer City District Council, Hannover, GER Microfunding, Young Culture, Cultural Office Hannover, GER NEUSTART KULTUR, Digital Voucher, BBK Federal Association, Berlin, GER 2019: Individual Artistic Development (Project), Federal Land of North Rhine-Westphalia, GER 2018: Individual Artistic Development (Research), Federal Land of North Rhine-Westphalia, GER Project Funding, Society of Friends & Sponsors, Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen, GER Scholarship, Federal Government of Germany/Foundation Sparkassenstiftung Essen, GER 2017: Short List Folkwang Prize 2017, Folkwang University of the Arts Essen, GER
Exhibitions
2024/25: Panoni te ao Change is the only constant, Kunsthalle Faust e.V., Hannover, GER 2023: nature telling, telling nature, Bruchhof, Stadthagen, GER (solo) 2021: Stationen, Subway Stop Markthalle / Landtag, Hannover, GER Digitale Herbstausstellung, Kunstverein Hannover, GER The Hidden Me, Cabaret Voltaire Société and Diversions, Victoria, BC, CAN The Dreamer, Millepiani, Rome, ITL 2020: Open Studios, Kulturetage Ihmezentrum, Hannover, GER 2019: Made in..., Kunsthaus Essen, GER 2018: Folkwang Finale, Sanaa Building, Zollverein Essen, GER International Youn Photographers, Photo Biennale 2018, Daeguart Factory, Daegu, KOR Video Screening, Rundgang 2018, Zollverein Essen, GER Touch (solo), Raum Z13 Essen, GER Photoprojekte Bauschau 2007-2018, Baustelle Schaustelle Duesseldorf, Photo Duesseldorf, GER You there, us here, W-10 Gallery FIU Miami, USA 2017: LIQUID LAYERS même l’eau a l’air fausse (solo), Galerie52 Essen, GER Before Miami, Baustelle Schaustelle Essen, GER Folkwang Preis 2017, Sanaa Building Zollverein, Essen, GER Stopover, UG im Folkwang, Museum Folkwang, Essen, GER 2014: Rundgang Fotografie, Auktionshaus Schützenbahn, Essen, GER Krisen des Sichtbaren, Pasinger Fabrik, Munich, GER 2011:...können wir das bitte sehen?, Ballhof, Hannover, GER 2010: Vol. 10, Seilbahn Expo Plaza, Hannover, GER
Publication Contributions
2018: Encounter V History of Photography in Daegu, International Young Photographers Exhibition, Photo Artists Society of Korea: Photography Exhibition, Fringe Photo Festival, Galleries Association of Daegu: Special Photography Exhibition, catalogue, Photo Biennale 2018, Daegu, KOR International Young Photography Exhibition, catalogue, Photo Biennale 2018, Daegu, KOR 2017: Stopover, brochure, UG im Folkwang, Museum Folkwang Essen, GER Irgend, artist's book, hand-made, Essen, GER 2014: Schöne neue Welt, HANT Magazine for Photography, No. 04, Erfurt, GER Folkwang UdK, brochure, Photokina Academy 2014, Cologne, GER
Artist's Books
2017: Irgend, hand made 30 C-Prints on cardboard, japanese binding, 40 Pages, Essen, GER 2013: Last days of Now, handmade, digital print, sich binding, 76 Pages, Hannover, GER
Texts
2020: Über weites Wasser, Flusser Studies 29 – 2020/Centennial Three-Part Issue, flusserstudies.net 2018: Ein fotografischer Körper? Aktivität und Passivität eines theoretischen Objekts. MA thesis, Folkwang University of the Arts Essen, GER