Janina Roider, born in Dachau, studied at the Glasgow School of Art and the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where she became a master student of Günther Förg in 2015. For many years, her work has combined analogue and digital processes to create a distinctive visual language: hand-drawn motifs, photographs, and text modules are digitised and further developed in multi-layered painterly processes.
The painting shows this hybrid visual language in a particularly impressive way. Roider combines vibrant areas of colour, digital compression, and haptic accents to create an energetic composition that transforms rhythm, movement, and cultural references into a vibrant visual experience. The work appears as a colour-intensive moment between ecstasy and controlled form—a symbol of her contemporary, visually powerful position. “Samba Meltdown” opens up a moment of intense, decelerated contemplation—as an invitation to stay longer, see more closely, and engage in a dialogue with the present within the image. A mirror of our algorithmic age.
Consigned by Janina Roider
