Josephine meckseper biography
- Josephine Meckseper is a German-born artist, based in New York City.
- Josephine Meckseper is a German-born artist, based in New York City.
- Josephine Meckseper, born in Germany, uses commercial forms of presentation such as vitrines, window displays, and magazines, to demonstrate inextricable.
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"Looking at art can really help to show you that there's a different reality."
Artist Josephine Meckseper reflects on George Tooker's "Government Bureau" in this episode of The Artist Project—an online series in which artists respond to works of art in The Met collection.
About the Artist
Josephine Meckseper, born in Germany, uses commercial forms of presentation, such as vitrines, window displays, and magazines, to demonstrate inextricable influences of consumer culture on society.
Josephine Meckseper (German, born Lilienthal 1964)
Blow Up (Michelli), 2006
Body form (torso with undergarment), two plastic frames with two photos in each, leg form (calf high with sock), leg form (thigh high with stocking), round metal stand, toilet scrubber in holder, metal sculpture, 2 glass balls, double sided ENDLESS DEALS sign, clipstand, double sided color prints mounted on Sintra, double-sided C-print/silver gelatin print mounted on Sintra and unmounted silver gelatin print; 82 × 96 × 27 in. (208.3 × 243.8 × 68.6 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Ar
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Josephine Meckseper
German artist
Josephine Meckseper | |
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| Born | Lilienthal, Lower Saxony, Germany |
| Known for | installation, sculpture, painting, photography, film |
| Awards | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship |
Josephine Meckseper is a German-born artist, based in New York City.[1] Her large-scale installations and films have been exhibited in various international biennials and museum shows worldwide.
Life and education
Meckseper grew up in Worpswede, Germany, an artist community founded at the beginning of the 20th century, by a group of artists including Heinrich Vogeler (1872- 1942).[2] Vogeler was a diverse political artist and architect whose early work is situated within the Jugendstil movement, a German offspring of Art Nouveau. Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) and the writer and poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), both lived in Worpswede for parts of their life.
Meckseper studied at Berlin University of the Arts in Germany from 1986–1990, and completed her MFA at the California Institute of the
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Josephine Meckseper
Josephine Meckseper, born in Germany, uses commercial forms of presentation such as vitrines, window displays, and magazines, to demonstrate inextricable influences of consumer culture on society. Meckseper melds the aesthetic language of modernism with the formal language of commercial display, combining them with images and artifacts of historical undercurrents and political protest movements. She approaches her art as a conceptual experiment — throughout her installations and vitrines, by simultaneously exposing and encasing common signifiers, such as advertisements, political symbols, and everyday objects, she creates a window into the collective unconscious of our time.
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Past
Cultural Production
Hanne Darboven, Josephine Meckseper, Allen Ruppersberg, Alexandre Singh
February 11 – March 24, 2012
Main Gallery
Josephine Meckseper
Text by John Cassidy, James Frey, Stephen Roach. Interview by Francesco Bonami.
Paperback: 72 pages
Publisher: The Flag Art
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