Matthias Meyer (artist)

Matthias Meyer (born April 1969 in Göttingen ) is a contemporary German artist .

life and work

Matthias Meyer studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Dieter Krieg and Gerhard Richter , from whom he was appointed master class in 1994. In the same year he completed a guest study at the Chelsea College of Art in London . The painter lives and works in Mülheim an der Ruhr . His works are represented in numerous well-known collections at home and abroad.

Meyer's work is shaped by landscapes , cityscapes and interiors based on photo templates. Using a specially developed wet-on-wet painted glaze technique, the artist moves away from the realism of the original picture and gives the painting the character of a fleeting memory. Since 2012, he has been creating more and more abstract landscapes reminiscent of water surfaces, which reveal the influences of abstract expressionism and color field painting .

Scholarships and Awards

1994: Max Ernst Scholarship
1995: SBC European Art Competition, Prize Winner Germany
2015: Working grant from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation

Solo exhibitions (selection)

1994: Max Ernst Scholarship, Galerie am Schloss, Brühl
2007: Maha Kumbh Mela , Junge Kunst eV Wolfsburg (cat.)
2009: The Ornament of Beauty is suspect , Danese, New York (cat.)
2010: Into the Deep , Galerie Andreas Binder (cat.)
2011: From the actually visible , Kunstverein Duisburg (cat.)
2013: Wetland , Danese Corey, New York (cat.)
2014: Insomnia , Kunstverein Leverkusen (cat.)

Wilma Tolksdorf Gallery, Frankfurt / Main

2015: New Drawings / Horizontal Paintings , Kyoto Galerie Weissraum, Japan

Drawings , Caso, Osaka, Japan

2016: A Distant River , Danese Corey, New York (cat.)
2017: Matthias Meyer. Glass Day , Mülheim an der Ruhr Art Museum (cat.)

Pouring Oil on Troubled Waters , Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Frankfurt / Main

2018: "Deep Water", Rosenhang Museum , Weilburg an der Lahn

Participation in exhibitions (selection)

1995: SBC European Art Competition , Smith's Gallery, London
1998: Sklizen II , Manes Museum, Prague (cat.)
1999: Moerser Art Prize , Municipal Gallery Peschkenhaus, Moers
2002: Annual gifts 2002 , Kestnergesellschaft , Hanover (cat.)
2003: Lives and works in ... , Neuer Kunstverein Aschaffenburg (cat.)
2004: realism? Landscape between reality and construction , KunstRaum Hüll eV
2006: The Vern Collective , Walker's Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee (cat.)

Architecture and Landscapes , The Flat a Villa Noris, Verona

2007: Palisade Parenchum , Danese, New York
2008: Discovering the landscape , Gera art collection

Pure water - elementary motif of contemporary art , Kunstverein Villa Streccius Landau (cat.)

2010: Works on Paper II , Danese, New York (cat.)

inter-cool 3.0 , Hartware Medienkunstverein , Dortmund (cat.)

Ruhrbiennale , Duisburg (cat.)

2011: Recently in the forest , headquarters of the Bavarian State Forests, Regensburg, (cat.)

In the Presence of Light , Danese, New York

2012: The Great Art Exhibition NRW , Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, (cat.)

Megacool 4.0 , Künstlerhaus k / haus Wien (cat.)

Alles Wasser, Selected works from the SOR Rusche Collection , Galerie Mikael Andersen, Berlin

2014: Bielefeld Contemporary. Art from Bielefeld private collections , Bielefelder Kunstverein

Constructive contradiction , Alison & Peter W. Klein Collection , Nussdorf

The liquid element - seascapes of the 17th and 21st centuries , SØR Rusche Collection Oelde / Berlin in cooperation with the Ahrenshoop Art Museum (cat.)

2015: Arcadia: Land and Sea , Danese Corey, New York

More art! New acquisitions and donations for the collection , Mülheim an der Ruhr art museum

2016: salondergegenwart , Hamburg (cat.)
2017: picture and portrait , Kunstverein Duisburg

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Matthias Meyer - Into the Deep , 2010, ISBN 978-3-940985-14-9
↑ On What Is Really Seen / From Actually Visible: Matthias Meyer , 2011, ISBN 978-3-86678-504-5
^ Matthias Meyer. Glass Day , 2017, ISBN 978-3-86206-662-9
↑ Birgit Richard / Heinz-Hermann Krüger (eds.): Inter-cool 3.0, Jugend Bild Medien, A Compendium on Current Youth Culture Research, ISBN 978-3-7705-4926-9
↑ BIELEFELD CONTEMPORARY Contemporary art from Bielefeld private collections , 2015, ISBN 978-3-7356-0073-8

personal data
SURNAME	Meyer, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter
DATE OF BIRTH	April 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH	Goettingen

[1] Matthias Meyer - Into the Deep , 2010, ISBN 978-3-940985-14-9

[2] On What Is Really Seen / From Actually Visible: Matthias Meyer , 2011, ISBN 978-3-86678-504-5

[3] Matthias Meyer. Glass Day , 2017, ISBN 978-3-86206-662-9

[4] Birgit Richard / Heinz-Hermann Krüger (eds.): Inter-cool 3.0, Jugend Bild Medien, A Compendium on Current Youth Culture Research, ISBN 978-3-7705-4926-9

[5] BIELEFELD CONTEMPORARY Contemporary art from Bielefeld private collections , 2015, ISBN 978-3-7356-0073-8