Meina Schellander

Meina Schellander (born July 28, 1946 in Klagenfurt , Carinthia ) is an Austrian object artist and painter of conceptual art .

life and work

Meina Schellander grew up as the daughter of a tailor in Ludmannsdorf in the Rosental . After graduating from high school in 1966, she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna , where she attended the master class for graphics with Maximilian Melcher . Her first major project was "Findling Krastal" in 1973 at Otto Eder's Krastaler Symposium , where she hung a boulder between the rocks. Influenced by Eder, public space plays a major role in her work, such as plaza designs and church interiors. For example, in 2007 she designed the installation “Konnexion 1” in and around the Maria Saal cathedral by stretching yellow threads around the building, including a homage to her mother. In 2008 she dealt with the work of Simone Weil in “Konnexion 2” in the Jesuit Church in Vienna .

In her work phases of object art alternated with phases of painting. Her subjects are often set in the religious area, for example, she dealt with Hemma von Gurk and Katharina von Siena .

Many of her installations, objects and works are made of traditional materials, especially stone and metal. The sculptural works “Head Additions” from the late 1970s and 1980s were accompanied by graphic studies, which played an important role in preparation.

In her exhibition “Fremdbild Heimat - for example Carinthia” in 1989, she staged a parallel action that corresponded to her personal life situation between Vienna and Klagenfurt and not only referred to Robert Musil , who was born in Klagenfurt , but also showed a distance to the term Heimat, similarly as with Ingeborg Bachmann .

Many of Meina Schellander's projects, although they often received awards, could not be implemented because they often caused a lack of understanding and contradictions. Schellander is a member of the Vienna Secession and of the Carinthian Art Association .

Meina Schellander lives in Vienna.

Exhibitions and projects

• 1981 parallel work 1977-80. Renée Ziegler Gallery, Zurich
• 1985 unit joints. Kunstverein Kärnten, Klagenfurt, and Museum of Modern Art, Ludwig Palais Liechtenstein Foundation , MMK, Vienna
• 1997-2000 Escape into the distance. Forecourt design of the HTL Ferlach ,
• 1999 Omega room. Rest gently - you blue land. Room installation, Liaunig Museum
• 1997/1998 Bar Square, three digital displays. Art in architecture , Federal Schools Josef-Preis-Allee, Salzburg. Architecture: ARGE Zeitler & Lechner Architekten, client: BIG - Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft Wien

literature

• Thomas fence screen: Meina Schellander - head and cross. Ritter Verlag, Klagenfurt 1998, ISBN 978-3-85415-236-1 .
• Gottfried Biedermann: Painting and sculpture in the 20th century . In: Christian Brugger, Karin Leitner-Ruhe, Gottfried Biedermann: Modernism in Carinthia . Carinthia Verlag, Klagenfurt 2009, ISBN 978-385378-582-9 , pp. 239f.

Web links

• Art database based on Vienna , with a list of your exhibitions and projects
• Meina Schellander at Galerie Walker (with pictures of works)
• Meina Schellander's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Image on basis wien , accessed December 5, 2009.
2. ↑ KHK: Extensive connections between times - Meina Schellander's "Domvernähung" in Maria Saal  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , [Catholic Church in Carinthia - Diocese Gurk] of July 10, 2007, accessed on December 5, 2009.  
3. ^ Kerstin Kellermann: Dissolve gravity , Augustin, August 2008, accessed December 5, 2009.
4. ^ Art database based on wien , accessed December 5, 2009.
5. ↑ Description ( Memento of the original from July 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the developer, accessed December 5, 2009 
6. ↑ image , accessed on December 5, 2009.
7. ↑ Federal schools (BGN WRG and BORG) in the Josef Preis Allee in Salzburg, the installation by Meina Schellander haben.at, July 1, 2013