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Jamie Niederer is a visual artist from Germany.

They have always drawn and painted on anything and anyone, much to the anger of their school teachers. Since 2018, Jamie focuses their work on the concepts of gender, body politics, and the aesthetics of drag. Their practice spans painting, performance, and photography, with a recurring interest in the body as a site of projection, control, and resistance.

Influenced by queer and feminist theory, Jamie’s work explores the constructed nature of gender and the visual codes attached to it. Drag, in particular, plays a central role – not only as a form of transformation, but as a subversive strategy to question normativity, beauty ideals, and the binaries of male and female.

Whether through larger-than-life portraits of drag performers or intimate photographic self-stagings, their images refuse passive representation. Instead, they use exaggeration, humor, and discomfort to challenge how we look, what we expect to see, and who gets to be visible.

Originally trained in media communication and design, Jamie now blends analytical tools with intuitive, expressive forms. Their visual language is both confrontational and tender – always aiming to destabilize and expand the boundaries of how identity can be seen and felt.

Jamie lives and works in Vienna, Austria.