*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