Pola Rader is an award-winning director, photographer and media artist with Russian roots, who now resides in Germany.
2004-2009 she obtained a teaching degree for English and French philology at the Murmansk Arctic State University.
Then she moved to Germany, where in 2014 she completed her bachelor degree in film and theatre studies from the Free University of Berlin.
In 2019 Rader graduated in MA Film from University of the Fine Arts HFBK Hamburg.
In her eye-catching work Pola engages with social related issues using film, photography and media art as her main mediums of expression.
Pola Rader’s vivid surreal art invites us into a magical world combining elements from different cultures and times.
Her conceptual motion designs, films or photography balance on the edge of beauty and weirdness creating a genuine kind of visual poetry.
Rader is on the board of the association "Filmkultur Schleswig-Holstein eV." and co-founder of "multicArts" media art group.
Pola is curator of the Short Film Festival "Lokale Held'innen" in Kiel, Germany and also participates in the Project "Kinolino", including film talks and screenings for children since 2017.
Education
2019 | University of the Fine Arts Hamburg HFBK, Master of Fine Arts, Film
2014 | Free University of Berlin, bachelor degree in film and theatre studies
2009 | Murmansk Arctic State University, teaching degree for English and French philology
Selected Shows
2021 | FilmFest Schleswig-Holstein , Kiel, Germany
2021 | Athens digital Arts festival, TĀCTUS, Athens, Greece
2021 | HER Docs Film Festival, Warsaw, Poland
2021 | Hochkantfilmfest, media art open-air gallery, Bremen, Germany
2020 | solo exhibition, KirchenKAI Gallery, Kiel, Germany
2020 | Nordische Filmtage Lübeck, Germany
2020 | Regard Bleu Filmfestival, Völkerkunde Museum, Zürich, Switzerland
2019 | Lockvögel, Baby!, group exhibition, HFBK Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
2017 | Filmfest Schleswig-Holstein 2017, Kiel, Deutschland
2015 | Monsters of film, International short film festival, Stockholm, Sweden
2015 | International short film festival Detmold 2015, Detmold, Germany
2015 | Västerås film festival 2015, Västerås, Sweden
Grants & Awards
2021 | Gesa-Rautenberg film award 2021, FilmFest Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany
2021 | Audience award 2021, FilmFest Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany
2021 | Concept development funding by MOIN Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
2021 | Idea funding by MOIN Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
2019 | Short List, Felix Schoeller Photo Award “Best Work by an Emerging Photographer”, Germany
2019 | Short List, Boutographies, photo-competition, Montpellier, France
2016 | Nomination for film award „Serge Daney of diffusion”, Paris, France
2015 | Best short film Preis, international short film festival for social advertisement „Ladoshka“, Minsk, Belarus
Publications
https://mini-maven.com/iso-sun/
https://www.floatmagazine.us/portfolios/pola-rader-iso-sun
https://www.floatmagazine.us/portfolios/pola-rader
https://parabola.org/2019/08/13/icon-and-mirror-a-photo-project-by-pola-rader/
https://www.plough.com/en/topics/community/icon-and-mirror
http://www.squaremag.org/resources/PolaRader.pdf
http://ortaformat.org/icon-and-mirror-27