Alexei Meshchanov

Alexej Meschtschanow (* 1973 in Kiev ) is a visual artist and sculptor living in Berlin .

Life

Meschtschanow began studying in 1997 at the Academy of Graphics and Book Art in Leipzig in the specialist class of Arno Rink and switched to Timm Rautert's class in 2002 , before he received a diploma in visual arts in 2005. In 2008 he finished his postgraduate studies as a master class student with Timm Rautert.

In the “Biedermeier” group of works, Meschtschanow has been combining bourgeois pieces of furniture with corset-like or prosthetic tubular steel constructions since 2003, which surround the various objects, elevate them and at the same time support and tie them. In the “Album” series, Meschtschanow deals with his own children's drawings that were created between the ages of four and seven. Originally drawn with ballpoint pen on glossy paper, he is exhibiting them as 150 × 100 cm, framed and glazed color photographs. Earlier work included the “Registration Set” campaigns, “Metamorphosis” in the GfZK depot and the “Meschtschanow dream office”.

Exhibitions (selection)

2013 Das Gegengen , Grafschaft Bentheim Art Association

2012 Der Morgen Heller Als Der Tag , KLEMM'S, Berlin (solo exhibition) / Berlin.Status (1) , Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin / I'll Never Smile Again , Philara Collection Düsseldorf (solo exhibition) / Spiegelkabinette , Galerie der Künstler im BBK Munich / Artists in Residence , The Meet Factory Residency Program, Prague, Czech Republic / Leipzig Annual Exhibition, Westwerk Leipzig

2011 Con Amore - Djurhuus collection , ARhoS Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark / Entropia , Philara Collection, Düsseldorf / Image to Be Projected Until It Vanishes , Museion, Bozen, Italy / A Change of Scene with No Regrets , Protok, Center for Visual Communication, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina (solo exhibition) / Attachment , Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, France

2010 The Hygienic Colors , Kunstverein Arnsberg / Feierabend , TERMINAL'S, Berlin (solo exhibition)

2009 joint venture, MICAMOCA, Berlin / amnesia , Kunstverein Leipzig / Light Motive , Galerie Suzanne Tarasiève, Paris, France / dé / montage , Galerie Grusenmeyer, Deurle, Belgium / Close the Gap , Städtische Galerie and Kunstverein Speyer; Pfaffenhof Art Association; Gallery Kleindienst / Werkschauhalle, Leipzig

2008 Russian Roulette , Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden / The Hygenic Colors , Galerie Rainer Wehr, Stuttgart (solo exhibition) / Material Presence, 176 project space , Zabludowicz Art Trust, London / Come to Daddy , KLEMM'S, Berlin (solo exhibition) / Bass Diffusion Model , Fieldgate Gallery, London

2007 We have no problems , Kunsthall Bergen, Norway / Das Buggenbauer Syndrom , Arndt & Partner, Zurich (solo exhibition)

2006 Amorphous Form in Mausefalle , Amerika, Berlin (solo exhibition) / Photo-Trafic, batiment d'art contemporain , Center de la Photographie, Geneva

2005 Fundament , Amerika, Berlin (with Adrian Sauer) / White Night Lovers , Goethe-Institut Paris (with Krisleifur Björnsson, cat.) / Steven Black and Alexei Meschtschanow, Kunstverein Leipzig / Alexej Meschtschanow, Galerie Alexandra Saheb, Berlin (solo exhibition)

2004 Civil engineering work , Museum Folkwang , Essen (with Sâadane Afif), (cat.) / Biedermeier standards , Galerie Rainer Wehr, Stuttgart (solo exhibition) / Just good news ... , Galerie EIGEN + ART, Leipzig

literature

• Alexej Meschtschnaow: The Birth of Hygiene / The Birth of the Hygienic , The Greenbox, Berlin 2011
• Timm Rautert and Matthias Kleindienst (eds.): Before all eyes. Photography from Leipzig , Kerber, Bielefeld 2005
• Necmi Sönmez (ed.): Civil engineering , Museum Folkwang, Essen 2004
• Wolfgang Schoppmann (ed.) (2003): Silver & Gold. Class Rautert Photography , Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2003