*1984 Hann. Münden
german-peruvian-austrian artist
till 2023 working under the shortened name Mercedes Wagner

mail(at)wagnerromero.net


Education
2023 - 2025    MFA with Prof. Natalie Czech
                                 Class for Extended Photography, Media & Poetics
                                 University of Arts Braunschweig, GR
                2025    DAAD-Project Class Abbas Akhavan 
                                 University of Arts Braunschweig, GR 
2018 - 2025     Research on informal power structures 
                                 in western subcultures
2013 - 2018      MA Photography Studies and Practice
                                 Prof. Gisela Bullacher, Prof. Christopher Muller
                                 Prof. Elisabeth Neudörfl, Prof. Elke Seeger 
                                 Folkwang University of the Arts Essen, GR 
2015 - 2016       Research and study trips in South America
                                 Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Chile, Brazil 
               2015       Masterclass Contemporary Photography
                                 Prof. Luz Maria Bedoya, Prof. José Villacorta
                                 Centro de la Imagen Lima, PR  
2011  -  2013       Self-study of Photography
                2013      Research and study trip to Argentina
                2012      Research and study trip to France
2006 - 2011       BA Scenography and Costume
                                 Prof. Maren Christensen, Prof. Colin Walker
                                 Faculty III Media, Information and Design, 
                                 Univ. of Applied Sciences and Arts Hannover, GR 
2004 - 2005    Studies of Philosophy, Gender Studies,
                                        Economic and Social History 
                                 Georg August University of Göttingen, GR


Collections and archives
2024   Mail Art Archive Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt and Robert Rehfeldt
2021     Photo Collection of the Federal Government, 
                on permanent loan at Museum der Moderne Salzburg, AT

Grants and prizes
2021    Project Funding, Linden Limmer CDC, Hannover, GR 
2021    Microfunding, Cultural Office Hannover, GR  
2021    NEUSTART KULTUR, Digital Voucher, BBK Berlin, GR 
2019    Project Funding, Federal Land of NRW, GR 
2018    Research Funding Federal Land of NRW, GR  
2018    Grant, Friends & Sponsors of Folkwang UdK Essen, GR  
2018    Deutschlandstipendium, Folkwang UdK Essen, GR 
2017    Short List Folkwang Prize 2017, Essen, GR


Solo exhibitions
2023    nature telling, telling nature, Bruchhof, Stadthagen, GR 
2018     Touch, Raum Z13 Essen, GR 
2017      LIQUID LAYERS même l’eau a l’air fausse,
                 Galerie52 Essen, GR


Group exhibitions (selected)
2025    Meisterschüler*innen, Kunstverein Braunschweig, GR 
2025    WOLFSTÖNE, Uferstudios, Berlin, GR
2024    Divided Planet, Chert Lüdde Bookstore, Berlin, GR  
2024    Als wär's der erste Tag, Y42 Workspace, Hannover, GR  
2021     Digitale Herbstausstellung, Kunstverein Hannover, GR 
2021     The Dreamer, Millepiani, Rome, IT 
2021     Stationen, Markthalle / Landtag, Hannover, GR 
2020    Open Studios, Kulturetage Ihmezentrum, Hannover, GR 
2019     Made in..., Kunsthaus Essen, GR 
2018     ExExoArtefakt, Folkwang Finale, Zollverein, Essen, GR 
2018     Intern. Young Photographers, Photo Biennale Daegu, KR 
2018     Photo 2007- 18, Baustelle Schaustelle Duesseldorf, GR 
2018     You there, us here, W-10 Gallery FIU Miami, US  
2017     Before Miami, Baustelle Schaustelle Essen, GR 
2017     Folkwang Preis 2017, Zollverein, Essen, GR 
2017     Stopover, UG im Folkwang Museum, Essen, GR 
2014     Fotografie, Auktionshaus Schützenbahn, Essen, GR  
2014     Krisen des Sichtbaren, Pasinger Fabrik, Munich, GR 


Screenings
2024    Hexennacht - reloaded, KuBitz Weißensee, Berlin, GR  
2024    Filmprogramm, University of Arts Braunschweig, GR 
2021     The Hidden Me, Cabaret Voltaire S. & D., CN (online)
2018     Video Screening, Folkwang UdK, Zollverein Essen, GR
2011       ...können wir das bitte sehen?, Ballhof, Hannover, GR


Publication contributions
(p = publication, c = catalogue, m = magazine)

2025   die banane am falschen ende aufmachen, in Klasse Czech, 
                Klasse Czech, HBK Braunschweig, GR (P)
2025   Braunschweig, in cache cache trappe trappe, 
                Klasse Czech, HBK Braunschweig , GR (P)
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, Photo Biennale 2018, Daegu, KR (C)
2018     International Young Photography Exhibition,
                Photo Biennale 2018, Daegu, KR (C) 
2014     Schöne neue Welt, HANT Magazine for Photography, 
                No. 04, Erfurt, GR (M)


Artist's books
2017    Irgend, hand made, 30 C-Prints on cardboard, 
               japanese binding, 40 Pages, Essen, GR 
2013    Last days of Now, handmade, digital print, 
               stich binding, 76 Pages, Hannover, GR


Texts
2020   Über weites Wasser, Flusser Studies 29 - 2020 / 
                Centennial Three-Part Issue (online)
2018    Ein fotografischer Körper? Aktivität und Passivität 
                eines theoretischen Objekts. 
                MA thesis, Folkwang University of the Arts Essen, GR


Teaching experience and committee work
2017 / 2018    Student representative, appointment procedure 
                              for photography and time-based media, 
                              W2 professorship, Folkwang University of the Arts, 
                              Essen, GR
2011 / 2012     Teaching assignment in artistic work,
                              Faculty III Media, Information and Design, 
                                    Univ. of Applied Sciences and Arts Hannover, GR






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