Josephine Meckseper
Josephine Meckseper (* 1964 in Lilienthal , Osterholz-Scharmbeck district , Lower Saxony ) is a German visual artist who lives and works in New York .
life and work
Josephine Meckseper is the daughter of the graphic artist and painter Friedrich Meckseper and grew up in the artist village of Worpswede . She studied at the Berlin University of the Arts from 1986 to 1990 . She graduated from the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia (California) in Los Angeles County with a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in 1992. Meckseper works with all media and various pictorial techniques: she builds large installations, sets up shop windows, makes sculptures, paintings, photographs and films.
As a concept artist, her questions include power politics and political ideas as commodities. In 2007 she spoke in the Spiegel about the position of women in the art scene.
Exhibitions (selection)
- Oldenburg Art Association
- Nuremberg Art Gallery
- Royal Academy of Arts , London
- 2003: Nation collective exhibition , Frankfurter Kunstverein , Frankfurt am Main
- 2005: Biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon , Lyon
- 2006: Whitney Biennial , New York City
- 2006: Moscow Biennale , Moscow
- 2007: Josephine Meckseper , Kunstmuseum Stuttgart , Stuttgart
- 2008: Society for Contemporary Art , Bremen
- 2008: Steirischer Herbst , Graz
- 2008: New Photography: Josephine Meckseper and Mikhael Subotzky , Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York City, USA
- 2009: Josephine Meckseper , Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst , Zurich and then in the Blaffer Gallery , The Art Museum of the University of Houston , Houston , Texas , USA. Catalog.
- 2009/2010: Dance in My Experience , Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia , Düsseldorf
- 2012: Josephine Meckseper in the Worpsweder Kunsthalle
Literature (selection)
- Marion Ackermann (Ed.): Josephine Meckseper. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2007, ISBN 978-3-7757-1986-5 .
- Source International. Artist book, 13 motifs on cardboard silver paper. With essays by Sylvère Lotringer, Gabriele Mackert and Mona Schieren. GAK, Society for Contemporary Art Bremen, Bremen 2008.
- Rachel Hooper (Ed.): Josephine Meckseper. JPR Ringier, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-03764-047-0 .
Web links
- Exhibition Stuttgart 2007
- Josephine Meckseper. Saatchigallery, London: photos, catalog raisonné, exhibitions
Individual evidence
- ↑ The woman is difficult in Der Spiegel 42/2007
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meckseper, Josephine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German artist who lives and works in New York |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lilienthal , Osterholz district |