Josephine Meckseper (German, born )

Josephine Meckseper (German, b.1964) is a New York-based collage and installation artist whose work critics cultural consumerism and the politics of power through the appropriation of images from advertising and fashion. Meckseper studied at the Berlin University of Fine Arts, and went on to complete her MFA at the California Institute of the Arts. She has held exhibitions at major international institutions, including the Whitney Museum of Fine Art in New York, NY; the Royal Academy in London, UK; and the Museum fur Gegenwartskunst in Zurich, Switzerland.

The artist is represented by the Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York, and ARNDT in Berlin.

Timeline

1964
Born in Lilienthal, Germany
1986–1990
Attended Graduate studies, Hochschule der Künste, Berlin
1990–1992
Recieved MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
Lives and works in New York

Exhibitions

2017
Josephine Meckseper Selected Exhibitions in 2017:
Josephine Meckseper, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City, Mexico (solo exhibition)
NGV Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
NO MAN’S LAND: Woman Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
2016
Josephine Meckseper Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
Josephine Meckseper, Gagosian Gallery, Paris, France (solo exhibition)
Josephine Meckseper, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany (solo exhibition)
9999, The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, USA
History of Nothing, Inside the White Cube, White Cube Bermondsey, London, UK
2015
Josephine Meckseper Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
Josephine Meckseper, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK (solo exhibition)
Silver Shadow, Half Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
I don’t care, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany
The Whitney’s Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
NO MAN’S LAND: Woman Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA
20 Years of Collecting: Between Discovery and Invention, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim, Solomon F. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
2014
Josephine Meckseper Selected Exhibitions in 2014:
2X (I) ST, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany (solo exhibition)
Mark Boulos and Josephine Meckseper, The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Waltham, USA (solo exhibition)
Pop Departures, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA
Taipei Biennial 2014, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, Taipei, Taiwan
Silver Pockets Full, The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, USA
Surplus Living, KM Temporaer, Berlin, Germany
The Brancusi Effect, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
CalArts Benefit 2014, Paula Cooper Gallery and Metro Pictures, New York, USA
A World of Its Own: Photographic Practices in the Studio, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
We Fragment, Collect and Narrate, Cultuurcentrum Mechelen, Belgium; traveled to Kunstmuseum
Thun, Thun, Switzerland; Galerie Robespierre, France; Leopold Hoesch-Museum-Düren, Germany, curated by Sayoko Nakahara at FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais
DISPLAY, Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA
Between Critique and Absorption, Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University, Milwaukee, USA
2013
The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
2013
2Q13 – Women Artists, Women Collectors, curated by Marcelle Joseph and Lydia Cowpertwait, Lloyds Club, London, United Kingdom
2013
REVERSE ENGINEERING, Curated by Bill Powers, The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, NY
2013
The Spook Rock Road, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris, France
2013
Secrets of Sunset Beach, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2013
L’Ange de l’histoire, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
2013
Cultural Freedom in Europe, Goethe Institute, Brussels, Belgium
2013
Living With More Art, Korrigierte Version, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany
2013
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2012
Josephine Meckseper, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York (solo)
2012
Josephine Meckseper, Worpsweder Kunsthalle, Worpswede, Germany (solo)
2012
Now’s the Time: Recent Acquisitions, curated by Lauren Hinkson and Carmen Hermo, Solomon F. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
2012
Newly Renovated Contemporary Wing, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
2012
The Simple Life, curated by Valérie Knoll and Bettina von Dziembowski, Kunstverein Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen, Germany
2012
est. 2002: 10th Anniversary Summer Exhibition, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, NY
2012
Parque Industrial, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil
2012
Living With Art, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany
2012
Cultural Production, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
2012
Worpsweder Kunsthalle, Worpswede, Germany
2012
American Leg, Window Spaces, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2012
Manhattan Oil Project, with Art Production Fund, The Last Lot, Times Square, New York, NY
2011
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK (solo)
2011
Gestamtkunstwerk: New Art from Germany, The Saatchi Gallery, London
2011
NY: New Perspectives, Brandnew Gallery, Milan
2011
Geschmack: der gute, der schlechte und der wirklich teure, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany
2011
Praxis, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York
2011
A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany
2011
Sharjah Biennial 10: Plot for a Biennial, Sharjah Art Museum, United Arab Emirates
2011
Cover Girl, Galerie des Galeries, Paris
2011
Glamourama, Lanchester Gallery, Coventry, UK
2011
The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA (solo)
2010
ARNDT, Berlin, Germany
2010
The Exquisite Corpse Project, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, USA (catalogue)
2010
CONTACT Toronto Photography Festival, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada (catalogue)
2010
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA (catalogue)
2010
My Brother, My Killer, Freymond-Guth & Co. Fine Arts, Zurich, Switzerland
2010
The Library of Babel/In and Out of Place, 176 / Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
2010
Contemplating the Void, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
2010
HomeLess Home, The Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem
2010
You can leave your hat on, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart (solo)
2010
Josephine Meckseper, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York (solo)
2009
Zeigen. An Audio Tour Through Berlin, Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, Berlin, Germany (catalogue)
2009
Dance in My Experience, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
2009
1989. Spione. Mauer. Kinderheim – An Der Brücke Zwischen den Welten, Villa Schöningen, Potsdam, Germany
2009
Ausstellungshalle zeitgenössische Kunst Münster, Germany (solo)
2009
Josephine Meckseper: Recent Films, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, USA (solo)
2009
John McWhinnie at Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, New York, USA (solo)
2009
Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum of the University of Houston, USA (solo)
2009
american apparel, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK (solo)
2009
Morality: Beautiful from Every Point of View, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands (catalogue)
2009
1989. End of History or Beginning of the Future? Comments on a Paradigm Shift, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
2009
Infinitesimal Eternity—Images Made in the Face of Spectacle, Yale University School of Art Gallery, New Haven, USA(catalogue)
2009
Learn to Read Art: A History of Printed Matter, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe; traveling to P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, USA
2009
No Soul for Sale: A Festival of Independents, Galerie im Regierungsviertel/Forgotten Bar Project Berlin at X Initiative, New York
2009
Narcotica, Galerie Im Regierungsviertel/Forgotten Bar Project Berlin, Basel, Switzerland
2009
Extended. Sammlung Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, ZKM / Museum für Neue Kunst Karlsruhe, Germany (catalogue)
2009
FAX, The Drawing Center, New York; traveling to Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Maryland; Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, Canada; Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong; Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, California; Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, Canada; Dowd Gallery, State University of New York, College at Cortland, Cortland, New York (catalogue)
2009
Bildschön. Schönheitskult in der aktuellen Kunst, Städtische Galerie, Karlsruhe, Germany (catalogue)
2009
MAN SON 1969. Vom Schrecken der Situation, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
2009
Living Together, Centro Cultural Montehermoso Kulturunea, Vitoria Álava, Spain; traveling to Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Vigo, Spain, curated by Xabier Arakistain and Emma Dexter (catalogue)
2009
migros museum für gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
2008
Prospect.1 New Orleans, USA (catalogue)
2008
Shrink-Wrapped, Or Belkin Satellite Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
2008
Strange Connections: Art und Fashion, KUNST + PROJEKTE, Sindelfingen, Germany
2008
Constellations, Artissima, Turin, Italy
2008
Alternating Beats, Museum of Art - Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA
2008
Asking we Walk, Voices of Resistance, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, Denmark
2008
Business As Usual, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, USA
2008
That Was Then… This is Now, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, USA
2008
Sculpture Is…, Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany
2008
Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
2008
Colette, Paris, France
2008
GAK, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany (catalogue)
2008
New Photography 2008: Josephine Meckseper and Mikhael Subotzky, MoMA, New York (solo)
2008
Arndt & Partner, Berlin (solo)
2008
Zidovi na ulici (Walls in the Street), Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia
2008
Vertrautes Terrain - Aktuelle Positionen in / über Deutschland, ZKM, Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany (Catalogue)
2008
Common Affairs: Steirischer Herbst 2008, Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria (catalogue)
2007
An Atlas of Events, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, Portugal
2007
From 60 to 7, Henie Onstad Art Centre, Norway
2007
Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany (solo)
2007
New York – States of Mind, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2007
Josephine Meckseper, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart (solo)
2007
Fit to Print: Printed Media in Recent Collage, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA
2007
Nouvelles Acquisitions/Volet 1, FRAC Nord – Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, France
2007
Brave New Worlds, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA (catalogue)
2007
Shadows in Paradise, FRAC Nord - Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, France
2007
When We Build Let Us Think That We Build Forever, The Zabludowicz Collection, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
2007
New York: States of Mind, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; traveling to The Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York, USA
2007
Resistance Is, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
2007
Rendición Extraordinaria/Extraordinary Rendition, NoguerasBlanchard, Barcelona, Spain
2007
Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art: Footnotes about Geopolitics, Market, and Amnesia, Russia
2007
Just Kick It Till It Breaks, The Kitchen, New York, USA (catalogue)
2006
Cooling Out - On the Paradox of Feminism, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College, Cork, Ireland
2006
Stephen Andrews, Marc Handelman, Josephine Meckseper, Tom Molloy, Steve Mumford, Barbara Pollock: This Ain’t No Fooling Around, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
2006
Day for Night, Whitney Biennial of American Art, New York
USA Today. Works from the Saatchi Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2. International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Sevilla, Sevilla
Tate Modern, London
International Project Room, ARCO ’06, Madrid
GAVLAK, West Palm Beach
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon, MUSAC, Leon, curated by Yuko Hasegawa, Agustin Perez Rubio and Octavio Zaya
Josephine Meckseper, Eric Baudelaire, Adrian Piper, Wayne Gonzales, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York
Two Friends and So On, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New Yor, USA
2005
Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art, Lyon
Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York (solo)
The Bulletin Board, White Columns, New York (solo)
Josephine Meckseper, GAVLAK, West Palm Beach
Experiencing Duration: Biennale d’art contemporain de Lyon 2005, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud and Jérôme Sans, Lyon (catalogue)
Die Neue Republik, Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg, Germany
A.B. Normal, Nyehaus, New York
Bonds of Love, curated by Lisa Kirk, John Connelly Presents, New York, (catalogue)
Faure & Light Gallery, Santa Monica
Girls on Film, Zwirner & Wirth, New York, USA
2004
IG-Metall und die künstlichen Paradiese des Politischen, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart (solo)
Heimweh: Young German Art, curated by Juliane von Herz, Haunch of Venison, London
The Future Has a Silver Lining: Genealogies of Glamour, curated by Heike Munder and Tom Holert, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
Dresscode, Kunstverein Neuhausen, Neuhausen/Fildern, Germany
American Idyll, Greene Naftali, New York
twinkle, twinkle, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany
2003
Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, USAbr>Fuckin’ Trendy, curated by Ellen Seifermann, Kunsthalle Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany
All That Glitters, curated by Karen Shaw, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, New York
Girls on Film, curated by Joseph R. Wolin, Produce Gallery, Penrose Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia
Wheeling, curated by Marcus Sendlinger, Cell Project Space, London
In the Public Domain, Greene Naftali, New York
Nation, curated by Nicolaus Schafhausen, Kunstverein Frankfurt, Frankfurt
Growing Up Absurd, curated by Jette Rudolph, Post-LA Gallery, Los Angeles
Lustgarten, Borgmann Nathusius Gallery, Cologne (solo)
2002
Summer Show, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
Bitch School, curated by Robert Blackson and Eddie Torres Longwood Arts Project, The Bronx Council on the Arts, New York
Wheeling! Krad Culture, curated by Marcus Sendlinger, Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin, Germany
Good Vibrations: Philip Argent, Marcy Freedman, Heribert Freidl, Josephine Meckseper, Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin, Germany
2001
Shine—oder Jedem das Seine, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart (solo)
Wine, Women & Wheels, White Columns, New York
2000
New New York, curated by Alejandro Diaz, Texas Fine Arts Association, The Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, Texas
Grok Terence McKenna Dead, Feature, Inc., New York
Rob Pruitt’s Flea Market, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
Art Auction 2000, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Wunderbar, Art Club Berlin at W139 Gallery, Amsterdam
1999
Overflow, curated by Caroline Schneider and Meg O’Rourke, D’Amelio Terras, Marianne Boesky Gallery, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
Criss Cross—Some Young New Yorkers III, curated by Klaus Biesenbach and Alanna Heiss, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York
Free Coke—Lines, Drawing, Paper, Greene Naftali, New York
Art Club Berlin Au Base Gallery, New York
Lifer, curated by Kenny Schachter, Cardozo School of Law Gallery, New York
1998
Super Freaks: Post Pop and the New Generation, Greene Naftali, New York
Selective Affinities, curated by Caroline Nathusius, New York Ministorage, New York
Art Club Berlin, curated by Klara Wallner, Artforum, Berlin
Summer Show, Debs & Co., New York
1996
Intervention, Starke Stiftung, Berlin
Mixing Messages: Graphic Design in Contemporary Culture, curated by Ellen Lupton, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York
Departure Lounge, Clocktower Gallery, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
Summer Show, Greene Naftali, New York
Scratch, Thread Waxing Space, New York
Intervention: Tendenzen im Schatten der Stadtplanung, curated by Thomas Büsch, Stiftung Starke, Berlin
1995
Voyeurism, 450 Gallery, New York
Wheel of Fortune, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York
Benefit Exhibition, American Fine Arts, New York
On the Lam, Thicket Gallery, New York
Verisimilitude and the Utility of Doubt, curated by Bill Arning and Gregory Crewdson, White Columns, New York
1994
This Is Your Home, curated by Ania Corcelius, Stuyvesant Town, New York
Agent Artist, curated by Thomas Büsch, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York
Paranoid, curated by Sam Durant, The Brewery Gallery, Los Angeles
1992
Every Day is the Same, Main Gallery, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
1990
Gemelli o dell’Attenzione Simultanea?, Contatto Europa Gallery, Milan

Public Collections

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, USA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, USA
FRAC Nord - Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, France
Hammer Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles USA
Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Migros museum für gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel

Literature

2016
Young Collectors Council, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, February 22
2016
The Artist Project, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Season 6, New York
2016
Visiting Artist Lecture, Yale School of Art, New Haven, April 11
2014
“Shame, Guilt & Prejudice: Emerging Possibilities”, 42nd Annual NAAP Conference, Scholastic Center, New York, November 15
2014
“Pop Art: Thomas Crow, Milton Glaser, Catharina Manchanda, Josephine Meckseper, Gary Panter: An Art Book Series Event”, New York Public Library, New York, October 15
2014
“SAM Talks: Josephine Meckseper”, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, October 9
2014
“Collaborations: Artists and Architects Sharing Space”, Friends Seminary Auction 2014, Phillips, New York, February 20
2012
Visiting Artist Lecture, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT, March 19
2012
“Subjective Histories of Sculpture: Josephine Meckseper,” SculptureCenter, New York NY, April 9
2011
“Josephine Meckseper on Hanne Darboven,” Artists on Artists Lecture Series, Dia Art Foundation, New York, April 4
2010
Singer, Debra, Creamier: Contemporary Art in Culture: 10 Curators, 100 Contemporary Artists, 10 Sources. London: Phaidon
2009
Hooper, Rachel, Sylvère Lotringer, and Heike Munder, Josephine Meckseper, Zurich: JRP|Ringier
2009
Rancière, Jacques, Der emanzipierte Zuschauer, trans. Richard Steurer. Vienna: Passagen Verlag
2007
Enwezor, Okwui, Christian Hoeller and Marion Ackermann (editor), Josephine Meckseper. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag.
2006
Lotringer, Sylvère, The Josephine Meckseper Catalogue No. 2, New York and Berlin: Sternberg Press
2004
Kelsey, John and Andrew Ross, The Josephine Meckseper Catalogue. New York: Lukas & Sternberg
English (US)

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