Artefact Gallery Debuts Annina Roescheisen’s ‘Hold The Line’ In Her First Berlin Solo Exhibition

On View: September 5 – December 19, 2025

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 15 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.