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ÉLODIE ANTOINE
ROSALÍA BANET
WIEBKE BARTSCH
BARBARA BERNSTEINER
TANIA CANDIANI
BARBARA CAVENG
LADA CERAR
ANDREJKA ČUFER
JOCHEN FLINZER
CLAUS FÖTTINGER
ZUZANNA JANIN
METKA KAVČIČ
JUSTYNA KOEKE
MICHAEL KOS
EDUARD LESJAK
MARTIN LÖFFKE
POLONA MAHER
ISA MELSHEIMER
JANET MORTON
ALEN OŽBOLT
SANDRINE PELLETIER
MARIJA MOJCA PUNGERČAR
IRIS SCHIEFERSTEIN
SAŠO SEDLAČEK
CHIHARU SHIOTA
KEI TAKEMURA
ANDRÉ TEMPEL
ANU TUOMINEN
JULIA VAN KOOLWIJK
MARJOLIJN VAN DER MEIJ
PETRA VARL
PATRICIA WALLER
SILKE WAWRO
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Isa Melsheimer
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Another Fucking Day, 2007 (silk curtain,
red thread, pearls)
As a painter, Isa Melsheimer uses
thread as a pure painterly means, combining it with many other
materials. Her work shows itself mainly in the form of installations
executed by combining soft and hard materials, almost as a rule
taken from everyday life and the environment. Common properties
of materials and their symbolic language contribute to, merge
with and underline the contextual levels of her artworks. This
work entitled Another Fucking Day,
tempting as it is with its juicy swear word, actually speaks about
the circulation of the blood, which is manifested in tiny entwinements
of red thread and bulks of red pearls (red blood cells). The message
of this work refers to the circulation of the blood which, paradoxically,
does not differ between day and night (periods of activity and
rest); nevertheless, every single morning it has to get vigorously
started again, so that its "owner" can function in full
force through the day and into the night. In other words, even
the tireless have the right to be lazy (including the right to
say so). If we have mentioned that the artist uses materials from
our everyday surroundings, it must also be emphasised that this
work – a tribute to one of our major organs – is also made of
an everyday object: a curtain from the artist's bedroom, exclusively
exhibited at the Thread exhibition
in Slovenj Gradec.
Born in 1968 in Neuss (Germany). Between
1991 and 1997 she studied at HDK in Berlin under Professor Georg
Baselitz. From 1999 to 2007 she held numerous scholarships, e.g.
Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral in Bad Ems (1999), Schloß Plüschow
in Mecklenburg (2001), Stiftung Kulturfonds in Berlin (2002),
Artist in Residence programmes in Marfi, Texas (2005) and in Umbertido,
Italy (2005), Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Forschung und
Kultur in Berlin (2005) and Villa Aurora in Los Angeles (2007).
Solo exhibitions (selection):
2007
Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris
Mönchehaus Museum für moderne Kunst, Goslar
2006 Das
Queenshotel heisst jetzt Best Western, Galerie Barbara
Wien, Berlin
dépendance, Brussels
Art Statement, Art 37, Basel
2005 Geliehene
Landschaften, Projektraum der Galerie Nächst St. Stephan,
Vienna
Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris
The Chinati Foundation, Marfa
Group exhibitions (selection):
2006
Asterism / Artists Living
in Berlin, Museo Tamayo, Mexico
City
2005
Drift, Aktuelle Positionen
der Zeichnung, Paraplufabriek, Nijmegen
M0DELLRÄUME,
Bühnen, Spielfelder
Versuchsanordnungen,
Städtische Galerie, Nordhorn
Kritische Gesellschaften,
Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
2004
Achtung Berlin!/Uwaga Berlin!,
Baltycka Galeria sztuki wspólczesnej, Slupsk (Poljska/Poland)
and Kunstraum Düsseldorf
the built, the unbuilt, and
the unbuildable, Overgaden, Copenhagen
2003
un-built cities,
Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn
Small talk, on the invitation
of Lily van der Stokker, Museum
Ludwig, Cologne
2002
Come-In,
Tourneeausstellung des Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e. V.,
Stuttgart
2001
new Heimat,
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt a. M.
willing refugees,
Schloß Plüschow, Plüschow; Kunsthalle Rostock
1999
Rosa für Jungs hellblau für
Mädchen, NGBK u. Kunstamt Kreuzberg,
Berlin
www.isamelsheimer.de
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