Josephine Meckseper

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JOSEPHINE MECKSEPER
1964 Born in Lilienthal, Germany
  Lives and works in New York 
   
Training  
1990-1992 MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California 
1986-1990 Graduate Studies, Hochschule der Künste, Berlin
   
Solo Exhibitions
2011 Timothy Taylor Gallery, London 
  The FLAG Art Foundation, New York
  Josephine Meckseper: Contaminator, ARNDT, viewing room, Berlin 
2010 You Can Leave Your Hat On, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart
  Josephine Meckseper, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York 
2009 Josephine Meckseper, Ausstellungshalle zeitgenössische Kunst Münster
  Josephine Meckseper: Recent Films, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis
  Josephine Meckseper, John McWhinnie at Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, New York
  Josephine Meckseper, Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum of the University of Houston
  american apparel, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
  Josephine Meckseper, migros museum für gegenwartskunst, Zurich
2008 New Photography 2008: Josephine Meckseper and Mikhael Subotzky, Museum of Modern Art, New York
  Josephine Meckseper, Arndt & Partner, Berlin
  Josephine Meckseper, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York
  Josephine Meckseper, Colette, Paris
  Josephine Meckseper, GAK, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen 
2007 Josephine Meckseper, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart
  Josephine Meckseper, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart
2006 International Project Room, with Galerie Reinhard Hauff, ARCO 2006 Madrid
2005 %, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York
  The Bulletin Board, White Columns, New York 
2004 IG-Metall und die künstlichen Paradiese des Politischen, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart
2003 Lustgarten, Borgmann Nathusius Galerie, Cologne
2001 Shine-oder Jedem das Seine, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart
   
Selected Group Exhibitions 
2011 NY: New Perspectives, with the contribution of Linda Yablonsky, Brand New Gallery, Milan
  Gestamtkunstwerk: New Art from Germany, The Saatchi Gallery, London
  Geschmack: der gute, der schlechte und der wirklich teure, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany
  Praxis, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, NY
  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart
  Sharjah Biennial 10: Plot for a Biennial, Sharjah Art Museum, United Arab Emirates, curated by Suzanne Cotter
  Cover Girl, Galerie des Galeries, Paris
2010 Contemporary Magic, National Arts Club, New York, curated by Stacy Engman
  The Right to Protest, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem
  The Exquisite Corpse Project, Gasser & Grunert Gallery, New York, curated by David Salle
  Going International, FLAG Art Foundation, New York
  Man Könnte es die Elastizität des Raumes nennen, The Forgotten Bar/Galerie im Regierungsviertel, Berlin
  Peter Saville: Accessories to an Artwork, Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton, New York
  Shut Your Eyes in Order to See, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris
  Superfemmes, Rathausgalerie Kunsthalle, Munich
  You're Scripted, Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna
  CONTACT Toronto Photography Festival, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto
  Changing the World, ARNDT, Berlin
  Dere Freie Wille ist Eine Illusion, Forgotten Bar Project Berlin, curated by Claudia Seidel
  2010, Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, curated by Francesco Bonami and Gary Carrion-Muriyari
  My Brother, My Killer , Freymond-Guth & Co. Fine Arts, Zurich
  The Library of Babel/In and Out of Place, 176/Zabludowicz Collection, London
  Contemplating the Void, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
  HomeLess Home, The Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem
2009 Zeigen. An Audio Tour Through Berlin, Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, Berlin
  Dance in My Experience, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf
  1989. Spione. Mauer. Kinderheim - An Der Brücke Zwischen den Welten, Villa Schöningen, Potsdam, Germany
  Morality: Beautiful from Every Point of View, Witte de With, Rotterdam
  1989. End of History or Beginning of the Future? Comments on a Paradigm Shift, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; curated by Gerald Matt
  Infinitesimal Eternity-Images Made in the Face of Spectacle, Yale University School of Art Gallery, New Haven
  Learn to Read Art: A History of Printed Matter, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe; traveling to P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, curated by AA Bronson
  No Soul for Sale: A Festival of Independents, Galerie im Regierungsviertel/Forgotten Bar Project Berlin at X Initiative, New York
  Narcotica, Galerie Im Regierungsviertel/Forgotten Bar Project Berlin, Basel
  Extended. Sammlung Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, ZKM / Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany
  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
  Bildschön. Schönheitskult in der aktuellen Kunst , Städtische Galerie, Karlsruhe
  MAN SON 1969. Vom Schrecken der Situation, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
  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 
2008 Prospect.1 New Orleans, curated by Dan Cameron
  Shrink-Wrapped, Or Belkin Satellite Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
  Strange Connections: Art und Fashion, KUNST + PROJEKTE, Sindelfingen, Germany
  Constellations, Artissima, Turin, Italy, curated by Stephanie Moisdon and Susanne Pfeffer
  Alternating Beats, Museum of Art - Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
  Asking we Walk, Voices of Resistance, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen
  Business As Usual, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit
  That Was Then… This is Now, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York
  Zidovi na ulici | Walls in the Street, Siemens Arts Program, MSUB, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
  Common Affairs: Steirischer Herbst 2008, Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
  Vertrautes Terrain - Aktuelle Positionen in / über Deutschland, ZKM / Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe
  Sculpture Is…, Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany
2007 Fit to Print: Printed Media in Recent Collage, Gagosian Gallery, New York
  Bare Life, The Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem
  Nouvelles Acquisitions/Volet 1, FRAC Nord - Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, France
  Brave New Worlds, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, curated by Doryun Chong and Yasmil Raymond
  From 60 to 7, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Hovikodden, Norway, curated by Frank Lubbers
  An Atlas of Events, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
  Shadows in Paradise, FRAC Nord - Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, France
  When We Build Let Us Think That We Build Forever, The Zabludowicz Collection, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, curated by Jérôme Sans
  New York: States of Mind, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; traveling to The Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York, curated by Shaheen Merali
  Resistance Is, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, curated by Christina Kukielski
  Rendición Extraordinaria/Extraordinary Rendition, NoguerasBlanchard, Barcelona
  Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art: Footnotes about Geopolitics, Market, and Amnesia, curated by Joseph Backstein, Daniel Birnbaum, Nicolas Bourriaud, Fuliya Erdemchi, Gunnar B. Kvaran, Rosa Martinez and Hans Ulrich Obrist
  Just Kick It Till It Breaks, The Kitchen, New York, curated by Debra Singer and Matthew Lyons 
2006 Media Burn, Tate Modern, curated by Emma Dexter, London
  Josephine Meckseper, Eric Baudelaire, Adrian Piper, Wayne Gonzales, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York
  The Unhomely: Phantom Scenes in Global Society, 2nd International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville, Seville, curated by Okwui Enwezor
  The Searchers, EFA Gallery, New York, curated by Molly Dilworth and Amoreen Armetta
  USA Today, Works from the Saatchi Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London; traveling to The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
  Video America, The Hospital Gallery, London, curated by Neville Wakefield
  Big City Lab, Art Forum Berlin, curated by Friederike Nymphius
  Two Friends and So On, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
  Trial Balloons, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon, MUSAC, Leon, curated by Yuko Hasegawa, Agustin Perez Rubio and Octavio Zaya
  Stephen Andrews, Marc Handelman, Josephine Meckseper, Tom Molloy, Steve Mumford, Barbara Pollock: This Ain't No Fooling Around, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
  Whitney Biennial 2006: Day for Night, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, curated by Chrissie Iles and Philippe Vergne
  Cooling Out - On the Paradox of Feminism, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College, Cork, Ireland; concurrently exhibited at Halle für Kunst, Lueneburg, Germany; Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz/Basel, Switzerland
2005 Experiencing Duration, Biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon 2005, Lyon, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud and Jérôme Sans
  Schwarz Brot Gold - Die Neue Republik, Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg, Germany
  Girls on Film, Zwirner & Wirth, New York
  Bonds of Love, John Connelly Presents, New York, curated by Lisa Kirk
  A.B.Normal, NYEHAUS, New York 
2004 twinkle, twinkle, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart
  Heimweh: Young German Art, London, Haunch of Venison, curated by Juliane von Herz
  The Future Has a Silver Lining: Genealogies of Glamour, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, curated by Heike Munder and Tom Holert
  Dresscode, Kunstverein Neuhausen, Neuhausen/Fildern, Germany
  American Idyll, Greene Naftali, New York
2003 Fuckin' Trendy, Kunsthalle Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany, curated by Ellen Seifermann
  All That Glitters, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, New York
  In the Public Domain, Greene Naftali, New York
  Nation, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
  Josephine Meckseper, Christoph Steinmeyer, Bernard Kahrmann, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York 
2002 Bitch School, The Bronx Council on the Arts, New York, Longwood Arts Project, New York
  Good Vibrations: Philip Argent, Marcy Freedman, Heribert Freidl, Josephine Meckseper, Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin 
2001 Wine, Women & Wheels, White Columns, New York
2000 New New York, Texas Fine Arts Association, The Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, Texas, curated by Alejandro Diaz 
  Grok Terence McKenna Dead, Feature Inc., New York
  Flea Market, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York
  Wunderbar, Art Club Berlin at W139 Gallery, Amsterdam 
1999 Overflow, D'Amelio Terras, Marianne Boesky Gallery and Anton Kern Gallery, New York, curated by Caroline Schneider and Meg O'Rourke
  Criss Cross: Some Young New Yorkers III, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York
  Free Coke: Lines, Drawing and Paper, Greene Naftali, New York
  Lifer, Cardozo School of Law Gallery, New York, curated by Kenny Schachter
1998 Super Freaks: Post Pop and the New Generation. Part 1: Trash, Greene Naftali, New York Selective Affinities, Wahlverwandtschaften, New York Security Mini-storage, New York
  Art Club Berlin, Art Forum, Berlin; Au Base, New York; Artistsspace W139, Amsterdam; curated by Klara Wallner
1996 Mixing Messages: Graphic Design in Contemporary Culture, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, curated by Ellen Lupton
  Departure Lounge, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Clocktower Gallery, New York
  Summer Show, Greene Naftali, New York
  Intervention: Tendenzen im Schatten der Stadtplanung, Stiftung Starke, Berlin
1995 Voyeurism, 450 Broadway Gallery, New York
  Wheel of Fortune, Lombard-Fried Fine Arts, New York
  Benefit Exhibition, American Fine Arts, New York
  Alter Image, 450 Broadway Gallery, New York
  On the Lamb, Thicket Gallery, New York
  Geiselnahme, The Puck Building, New York; Zum Goldenen Hirschen, Hamburg Verisimilitude and the Utility of Doubt, White Columns, New York, curated by Bill Arning and Gregory Crewdson
1994 This Is Your Home, Stuyvesant Town, New York, curated by Ania Corcilius
  Page 5, 450 Broadway Gallery, New York
  Agent Artist, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York
  Paranoid, M*Y*T*H Series at the Brewery , Los Angeles, curated by Sam Durant
1992 Tattoo Collection, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York; Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne; Jennifer Flay Gallery, Paris, organized by Air de Paris, Nice, and Urbi et Orbi, Paris
1990 Licht und Schein, KUBUS, Kunstverein Hannover Land, Hannover, Germany
1989 Neue Darmstädtler Sezession, Darmstadt, Germany
  Grillen, Ohlauer Strasse, Berlin