Josephine Meckseper

Josephine Meckseper (b.1964, Lilienthal, Germany) is a German artist based in New York.

Meckseper studied at Berlin University of the Arts in Berlin from 1986-1990, and completed her MFA at the California Institute of the Arts in 1992. [http://artipedia.org/artsnews/exhibitions/2007/07/14/josephine-meckseper-at-kunstmuseum-stuttgart/ Josephine Meckseper at Kunstmuseum Stuttgart - Artipedia - Arts News ] ]

Meckseper, also publisher of the FAT Magazine, addresses questions about the politics of power and the propagation of political ideas as commodity [http://artipedia.org/artsnews/exhibitions/2007/07/14/josephine-meckseper-at-kunstmuseum-stuttgart/ Josephine Meckseper at Kunstmuseum Stuttgart - Artipedia - Arts News ] ] . Her work has been exhibited at important galleries and museums including the Oldenburger Kunstverein and Kunsthalle Nuernberg in Germany, the Museum fur Gegenwartskunst in Zurich, Switzerland, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, at The Royal Academy in London, and the 2005 Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon in France. In 2007 a major retrospective on her work was shown at the Museum of Arts in Stuttgart. [http://www.kunstmuseum-stuttgart.de/de/index.php?site=1&page=3&previewSel=22 Kunstmuseum Stuttgart - Das Museum ] ]

She is represented by Elizabeth Dee Gallery in New York, Arndt & Partner in Berlin and Reinhard Hauff in Stuttgart.

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External links

* [http://www.frieze.com/shows/review/josephine_meckseper/ Josephine Meckseper, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, frieze.com, May 2008]
* [http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/josephine_meckseper.htm Josephine Meckseper - Sculpture - Saatchi Gallery]
* [http://www.amazon.com/dp/1903973961/ USA Today: New American Art from the Saatchi Gallery (Paperback Book)]