Mike Meiré

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Mike Meiré (born 1964 in Darmstadt , real name Michael Meier ) is a German designer , art director , artist and curator .

Life

Mike Meiré lives and works in Cologne. He began his career as the editor and art director of Apart magazine . In 1987 he founded the M2 Meiré und Meiré agency in Cologne with his brother Marc Meiré and with Thomas Bried in Wiesbaden. In 1996 he expanded the M2 network to London, where Peter Saville's apartment under the name "The Apartment" served as an office. In 1997 he founded Aerome with his brother Marc with the aim of synchronizing films with scents. Meiré was Art Director of the business magazine Econy and has been Art Director of its successor brand eins since 1999 . For Dornbracht he developed and curated the project series Dornbracht Culture Projects and staged a. a. own artistic contributions such as “The Farm Project”, “Global Street Food” and “Revolving Realities”.

In 2004 he held the Stardust Festival with the artist Mark Borthwick in Cologne. In 2009 he was involved in the development of the new layout of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung .

In 2010 the first catalog “day in day out” about his free artistic work was published for Bartha Contemporary Ltd., London.

Mike Meiré has been Art Director of GARAGE magazine since 2011. Since May 2015, together with Philipp Blombach and Charlotte Cassel, he has been responsible for the art direction of the monthly WELT art magazine BLAU.

Works

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1991–1993: International Furniture Fair , Cologne
  • 2010: Icons of a Modern Age, Bartha Contemporary, London
  • 2012: Economy of Attention, Bartha Contemporary, London
  • 2013: Conflicts and Holes, Bartha Garage, Basel
  • 2018: ideal and everyday, ak space, Cologne
  • 2019: NORTH-WEST, from Bartha, S – chanf

Awards (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Norman Kietzmann, May-Britt Frank: Mike Meiré. In: DEAR magazine. Retrieved February 5, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Kathrin Spohr: IMM COLOGNE 2017: CO-CREATING 4.0 , in DEAR MAGAZIN , accessed on January 29, 2020
  3. ↑ David Jenal: Boundaries between advertising, art and everyday life? Not from Mike Meiré , in WELT ICONIST , accessed on January 29, 2020
  4. ↑ Peter-Philipp Schmitt: These people shape the Cologne furniture fair , in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on January 13, 2018, accessed on January 29, 2020
  5. ↑ Rose Etherington: Back Room - Adults Only by Mike Meiré , in dezeen , accessed January 29, 2020
  6. ^ Rainer Metzger: Kunstforum international , in artmagazine , accessed on January 29, 2020
  7. ↑ Sebastian Hammelehle: Hit the old aunt in the neck , in Spiegel Online from September 23, 2009, accessed on January 29, 2020
  8. ↑ Melanie Gerlis: Sofa so good: the $ 150m Modigliani up for auction , in Financial Times of April 27, 2018, accessed on January 29, 2020
  9. ↑ Janina Poesch: As society goes digital, what's coming for brand communications and trade fairs? , in Frame (magazine) on January 10, 2020, accessed on January 30, 2020
  10. ↑ Marco Velardi: Having It All , in T Magazine on the New York Times website on November 2, 2012, accessed January 29, 2020
  11. ↑ Joachim Bessing: Mike Meiré , in waahr.de , accessed on January 27, 2020
  12. ↑ Dornbracht Culture Projects
  13. ↑ Mike, The Man , in NZZ , January 23, 2009, accessed January 27, 2020
  14. ↑ On our own behalf: Giving substance more aesthetics , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , 23 September 2009
  15. ↑ Book Description Meurer Verlag
  16. ↑ Bartha Contemporary Ltd., London ( Memento of the original from September 17, 2011 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.barthacontemporary.com
  17. ↑ "Art and Fashion in Dasha Zhukova's Garage" , The New York Times , August 24, 2011
  18. ↑ A look at the sheet: “The world” makes “blue”. , at turi2.de from May 2, 2015
  19. ↑ And forever attracts young people , at NZZ Folio .de from October 2009
  20. ^ Winner of the LeadAwards 2006
personal data
SURNAME Meiré, Mike
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meier, Michael (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German designer, art director, artist and curator
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt