Andrei Roiter (born 1960 in Moscow, Russia) works in a range of disciplines, including sculpture, drawing, photography, installation and painting. He selects the medium most suitable to his needs at the time. Roiter’s attitude to life is inextricably bound up with his work. Just as he himself keeps changing location — Amsterdam, Moscow, New York — his works likewise are always of new shapes and materials.
His motifs — the suitcase, the notebook, the camera or the speaker — recur through his plethora of shapes and materials (which are often found objects). The significance of these motifs lies hidden in the numerous cultures in which Roiter is at home, but above all also in his own past and his own today. As he himself puts it: “Since I grew up in Russia, I feel an attraction to old, worn-out things. For me, however, it is important that they should also have a connection with today.”*
