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Isa Melsheimer

born 1968 in Neuss, Germany
lives and works in Berlin
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Isa Melsheimer studied at the Hochschule der Künste (School of the Arts) Berlin 1991–1997 in Georg Baselitz’s master class.
 
She has received several grants, including from the Schloß Balmoral, Bad Ems; Stiftung Kulturfonds, Berlin; The Chinati Foundation, Marfa; Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Perugia; Villa Aurora, Los Angeles; Goethe Institute, Lisbon; and Villa Massimo, Rome.
 
Melsheimer received the Kunstpreis der Stadt Nordhorn in 2008, and the Marianne Werefkin Prize in 2015.
 
Isa Melsheimer explores urban living spaces and the conditions for their design and change. She is as much interested in the formal vocabulary of modern architecture as she is in urban planning scenarios and the dynamics of social tension. Responding to the specific sites of her exhibitions, Melsheimer creates complex spatial installations with surprising leaps in scale, changes of perspective and material contrasts. Along with sculptures in concrete, glass, or ceramic, her model-like test set-ups can also include embroidered curtains, arrangements of collected objects, or ensembles of living plants. The sculptural work is accompanied by gouaches in which quotations from art, architecture, design, and pop culture overlap and interfuse. (Karsten Müller)
 
Selected solo exhibitions: Ernst Barlach Haus, Hamburg, Germany (2015), Ikob Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Eupen, Belgium (2014), Santa Monica Museum of Art, California (2012), Kunsthaus Langenthal, Switzerland (2010), Carré d’art, Nîmes, France (2010), Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, Germany (2008), Stiftung Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen, Germany (2008), Mönchehaus Museum, Goslar, Germany (2007), Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas (2005), Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands (2004)
 
Melsheimer’s work is represented in the collections of Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, Netherlands; Carré d’art – Musée d’art contemporain de Nimes, France; CNAP Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris, France; Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany; MUDAM, Luxembourg, and S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium, among others.

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Isa Melsheimer, Rossi (San Cataldo), 2022 — Galerie nächst St. Stephan
Isa Melsheimer
Rossi (San Cataldo), 2022
glazed ceramic
3 parts, 39 x 70 x 22 cm (15 3/8 x 27 1/2 x 8 5/8 in.), 39 x 45 x 22 cm (15 3/8 x 17 3/4 x 8 5/8 in.), 66 x 71 x 60 cm (26 x 28 x 23 5/8 in.)
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Isa Melsheimer, Communication with the Rotten Past X, 2019 — Galerie nächst St. Stephan
Isa Melsheimer
Communication with the Rotten Past X, 2019
glazed ceramic
46 x 85 x 63 cm (18 x 33 1/2 x 24 7/8 in.)
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Isa Melsheimer, Metabolit 7, 2019 — Galerie nächst St. Stephan
Isa Melsheimer
Metabolit 7, 2019
glazed ceramic
61 x 41 x 47 cm (24 x 16 x 18 1/2 in.)
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Isa Melsheimer, Max Taut, 2015 — Galerie nächst St. Stephan
Isa Melsheimer
Max Taut, 2015
glass, silicone, polycarbonate
height 63 cm (25 in.), dm 33 cm (13 in.)
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Isa Melsheimer, Sector 591, 2017 — Galerie nächst St. Stephan
Isa Melsheimer
Sector 591, 2017
gouache on paper
42 x 56 cm (16 1/2 x 22 in.), framed 52 x 61,5 cm (20 1/2 x 24 1/4 in.)
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Isa Melsheimer, Trekking Mask IX, 2018 — Galerie nächst St. Stephan
Isa Melsheimer
Trekking Mask IX, 2018
fabric, wire, thread
35 x 25 x 12 cm (13 3/4 x 9 3/4 x 4 3/4 in.)
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Isa Melsheimer, Glasarchitektur Kap. XCIV, 2009 — Galerie nächst St. Stephan
Isa Melsheimer
Glasarchitektur Kap. XCIV, 2009
fabric, threats, artificial pearls
172 x 98 cm (67 3/4 x 38 1/2 in.)
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