Jonathan Meese
Artist
Jonathan Meese (born January 23, 1970, Tokyo/Dessau) is a German painter, sculptor, performance artist and installation artist based in Berlin and Hamburg.
His (often multi-media) works include collages, drawings and writing. He also designs theater sets and wrote and starred in a play, "De Frau: Dr. Poundaddylein - Dr. Ezodysseusszeusuzur" in 2007 at the Volksbühne Theater.
Meese attended the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg, but left the school before completing his studies and was picked up by Berlin gallery Contemporary Fine Arts. An early installation Ahoi der Angst was presented at the first Berlin Biennale in 1998.
He has been included in exhibitions Spezialbilder at Contemporary Fine Arts in Berlin, Grotesk! at Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt and Schnitt bringt Schnitte at Ausstellungsraum Schnitt in Köln, and a performance at Tate Modern, entitled Noel Coward Is Back — Dr. Humpty Dumpty vs. Fra No-Finger. He has exhibited at Modern Art, London, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, and Centro Cultural Andratx, Mallorca.
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), North Miami presented the first major solo museum exhibition in the United States for Jonathan Meese, which included Meese's paintings that mix personal hieroglyphics and collage, installations, ecstatic performances, and a powerful body of sculptures in a variety of media. The exhibition was on view during Art Basel Miami Beach 2010.
He has worked collaboratively with the painters Jörg Immendorff, Albert Oehlen, Tim Berresheim, Daniel Richter, Tal R and the composer Karlheinz Essl. For the Salzburg Festival 2010, Meese created an acclaimed stage design for the world premiere of Wolfgang Rihm's opera Dionysus.
Jonathan Meese (born January 23, 1970, Tokyo/Dessau) is a German painter, sculptor, performance artist and installation artist based in Berlin and Hamburg.
His (often multi-media) works include collages, drawings and writing. He also designs theater sets and wrote and starred in a play, "De Frau: Dr. Poundaddylein - Dr. Ezodysseusszeusuzur" in 2007 at the Volksbühne Theater.
Meese attended the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg, but left the school before completing his studies and was picked up by Berlin gallery Contemporary Fine Arts. An early installation Ahoi der Angst was presented at the first Berlin Biennale in 1998.
He has been included in exhibitions Spezialbilder at Contemporary Fine Arts in Berlin, Grotesk! at Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt and Schnitt bringt Schnitte at Ausstellungsraum Schnitt in Köln, and a performance at Tate Modern, entitled Noel Coward Is Back — Dr. Humpty Dumpty vs. Fra No-Finger. He has exhibited at Modern Art, London, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, and Centro Cultural Andratx, Mallorca.
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), North Miami presented the first major solo museum exhibition in the United States for Jonathan Meese, which included Meese's paintings that mix personal hieroglyphics and collage, installations, ecstatic performances, and a powerful body of sculptures in a variety of media. The exhibition was on view during Art Basel Miami Beach 2010.
He has worked collaboratively with the painters Jörg Immendorff, Albert Oehlen, Tim Berresheim, Daniel Richter, Tal R and the composer Karlheinz Essl. For the Salzburg Festival 2010, Meese created an acclaimed stage design for the world premiere of Wolfgang Rihm's opera Dionysus.
