KATIA ROESSEL 
©KATIA ROESSEL - video stills "Glee IX" from the serie "GLEE"

BIOGRAPHY 

Katia Roessel completed her studies in Paris in 2009
at École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, (French National Fine Arts),
under the tutors Jean-Marc Bustamante and Christian Boltanski.
She has worked on the television program Paris Cinq as an assistant
director and has also collaborated with RE:Voir Video editions,
where she discovered the work of Kenneth Anger.
She also provided production assistance for the French film production
company Les Films de l’Après-­Midi, best known for its feature films by
Manoel de Oliveira. She had the following Exhibitions : 'blue-movies'
video series at Gallery Ivana de Gavardie in Paris, parts of the
'GLEE' series in 2012 in Seoul (South Korea), 
and in London and Brighton (G.B.), then in 2013 in Paris: 
exhibition 'toute pure' at Galerie Everest Standard and Artplateforme Projet.
Her first selection of poems 'Les Yeux Bandés' has been published by
the French publishing house Mémoire Vivante.
Extracts of her writings published in French and German reviews,
with a programme on Radio Libertaire. Her second selection of poems,
'fugace', has been published by Le Hasard d'Être, with chronicle in
CCP­ Cahier Critique de Poésie. Her first short film 'Le Giron' ('The Core')
competed at the Cyprus International Film Festival (Nicosia) 
and the Peloponnesian-Corinthian International Film Festival
in Greece, in 2011. 'René', her second short film, was shown
at the Cyprus International Film Festival for its International
Premiere, at the Hrizanthema Horror & Fantasy Film Festival (Subotica)
in Serbia and in Greece, in 2013.

Her work has been shown in festivals, galleries, collective projects
and open-air events such as POINT IN THE ENDLESS UNIVERSE,
Moscow (2014), Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris (2011),
AVIFF Cannes (2014), OCAT Shanghai (2014), Collection VIDEO SALON,
Galerija Duplex 100m2, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (2016),
and PARISARTISTES # (2017) among others.