Bjørn Melhus

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Bjørn Melhus (2015)

Bjørn Melhus (* 1966 in Kirchheim unter Teck ) is a German video artist . In his socially critical short films , videos and video installations , Melhus takes up current global issues and trends.

Life

Melhus grew up as the son of a German and a Norwegian in Swabia. In Stuttgart he graduated from the Adolf Lazi School (today the Lazi Academy for Film and Design in Esslingen ) and the state film school . From 1988 to 1997 he studied fine art in Birgit Hein's film and video class at the HBK Braunschweig . He then received a DAAD scholarship at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles in 1997/98 and a studio scholarship from 1999 to 2001 as a prize from the Kunstverein Hannover. With a scholarship from the State of Lower Saxony, he took part in the renowned ISCP (International Studio and Curatorial Program) in New York in 2001/02. Melhus made commercials at the beginning of his career , but has been producing films, videos and installations in the experimental film and art context since 1986.

Bjørn Melhus is a member of the German Association of Artists . He has lived and worked in Berlin since 1987 and has been Professor of Fine Art / Virtual Reality at the Kassel Art College since 2003 . In May 2018, Melhus was elected as a new member of the Fine Arts section of the Berlin Academy of the Arts .

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Melhus' works find their inspiration again and again in the tensions between freedom and violence or oppression. He often reflects the impact and influence of the mass media and consistently uses found footage material from various media channels such as classic films, YouTube videos or talk shows. With stylistic devices such as ironic-grotesque exaggeration or exaggeration, he questions stereotypical ideas, figures, patterns of behavior and perception. He embodies the protagonists in his works from humans to animals, regardless of gender and age. However, his own voice can never be heard, instead varying, repetitive voice quotations. With the breaking of the rigid relationships between media and recipients, Melhus with its “wonderful, almost magical world” opens up the view for the essential elements of human actions and interactions.

"Bjørn Melhus is one of the most famous German short filmmakers and media artists and at the same time one of the few whose work has received international attention and recognition both at short film festivals and in the art scene."

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Filmography (selection)

Exhibitions

Melhus artistic works were u. a. in the Tate Modern in London, in the MOMA in New York, the Serpentine Gallery London, in the Sprengel Museum Hannover , in the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, in the ZKM Karlsruhe , in the Center Pompidou in Paris, and in the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich. In 2003 Melhus was one of the 44 participants in the DKB project exhibition Herbarium of Views , which was shown in the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn.

Selection of further individual exhibitions

  • 2011: Bjørn Melhus - Live Action Hero , Haus am Waldsee , Berlin
  • 2011: Olrik Kohlhoff / Bjørn Melhus · The forest is black , Herbert Gerisch Foundation, Neumünster
  • 2013/14: Bjørn Melhus - I love you , Art Collection - Jena City Museums

Awards (selection)

Melhus films and videos can be seen regularly at film and media art festivals such as the Oberhausen Short Film Festival , the European Media Art Festival Osnabrück, the IMPAKT Festival in Utrecht, the Kino der Kunst in Munich and the transmediale Berlin, and have received numerous awards in the past .

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Melhus at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2011

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Web links

Footnotes

annotation

  1. ↑ Overview of the artists' work on All Works . melhus.de; accessed on May 20, 2017

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Tim Ackermann: Bomb mood . In: Welt am Sonntag . March 27, 2011 ( Online: How "Militainment" could also benefit Gaddafi . March 29, 2011 on welt.de [accessed on May 21, 2017]).
  2. ^ Exhibition 2014 - WE, THE ENEMY. jena.de, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on May 20, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b c d Luc-Carolin Ziemann: THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS - Bjørn Melhus doesn't want to have to choose between black box and white cube. shortfilm.de, June 4, 2010, archived from the original on May 18, 2015 ; accessed on May 20, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Bjørn Melhus . From kuenstlerbund.de, accessed on May 20, 2017
  5. ↑ Bjørn Melhus - Professorship for Fine Arts / Virtual Realities. kunsthochschulekassel.de, 2015, archived from the original on March 24, 2016 ; accessed on May 20, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Academy of Künste14 welcomed new members. , Deutschlandfunk from July 10, 2018, accessed on July 10, 2018.
  7. ↑ Peter Nowak : The wonderful world of Björn Melhus . April 4, 2011 from freitag.de, accessed on May 20, 2017
  8. ^ Exhibition 2014 - WE, THE ENEMY. pinakothek.de, 2015, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on May 20, 2017 .
  9. ^ "Herbarium of Views - New Admissions in the German Association of Artists" . ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) kuenstlerbund.de; accessed on May 20, 2017
  10. ↑ Bjørn Melhus - Live Action Hero ( Memento from November 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). From hausamwaldsee.de, accessed on May 20, 2017
  11. ↑ Am I on TV now? or is it upside down? In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , February 13, 2011, p. 20
  12. ^ West ART Corner: Anja Backhaus at the Short Film Days in Oberhausen - Bjørn Melhus. In: West ART magazine. wdr.de, May 5, 2015, archived from the original on May 18, 2015 ; accessed on May 20, 2017 .
  13. ^ Exhibition 2014 - WE, THE ENEMY. emaf.de, 2014, archived from the original on July 5, 2014 ; accessed on May 20, 2017 .
  14. ↑ How the West was One . On October 26, 2012 at impakt.nl, accessed on May 20, 2017
  15. ↑ KINO DER KUNST 2014 ( Memento from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). On September 29, 2014 from kinoderkunst.de, accessed on May 20, 2017
  16. ↑ Bjørn Melhus . At transmediale.de, accessed on May 20, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Melhus, Bjørn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German video artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirchheim unter Teck