Josephine Meckseper 11 July 23 September 2017 515 West 19th Street, New York, NY 10011 T +1 212 256 1669 info@timothytaylor.com timothytaylor.com
Josephine Meckseper 11 July 23 September 2017 On View a four-part presentation at Timothy Taylor, New York will unveil an evolving exhibition over the course of a year. Each iteration will take place in the intermediary period between the gallery s exhibitions, for the duration of approximately one month, with four episodes in total throughout 2017. On View functions as a group exhibition, separated into distinct parts, with the broader conversation between the works revealing itself as the year unfolds. For the second edition of On View, Timothy Taylor is pleased to present a selection of works by Josephine Meckseper. This is the artist s third solo exhibition with the gallery, and the first in the New York space. For this exhibition two sculptural works from 2005 have been placed alongside new wall-based sculptures and pigment prints, highlighting Meckseper s long-standing investigation into the visual and material cultures of protest and political activism, advertising, cinema, early Modernism and the Avant-Garde. These various sites of enquiry are conflated through paradoxical juxtapositions of images and objects. Through the resulting performative and open narratives, Meckseper successfully forges a type of contemporary archaeology which documents both ideology and commodity. Meckseper s work has been included in two Whitney Biennials (2006 and 2010); the Sharjah Biennial (2011); and the Taipei Biennial (2014). In 2007 a major retrospective on her work was organised by the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart. Meckseper s large-scale public project, Manhattan Oil Project, was commissioned by the Art Production Fund and installed in a lot adjacent to Times Square in New York, in 2012. In 2015 her works were featured in Storylines, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Zabludowicz Collection: 20 Years, London; and America Is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Meckseper s works are in the permanent collections of numerous institutions, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and the Migros Museum, Zurich. Josephine Meckseper was born in Lilienthal, Germany and lives and works in New York. She received her MFA from Cal Arts in 1992. Prior to this she studied at the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin (198690).
Josephine Meckseper I Love Jesus, 2005 Aluminium, plexiglass, glass, lights, c-print, metal display stands, plastic mannequin leg, argyle sock, found jewellery, gouache and tape on inkjet print mounted on cardboard, toilet brush, feather duster, acrylic on glass ball, glass vases 89 46 18 in. 226 117 46 cm T008867
Josephine Meckseper Untitled, 2005 Mannequin, fabric, found jewellery, inkjet print on fabric, acrylic and fabric on canvas Mannequin: 57 26 17 1/3 in. 145 66 44 cm Painting: 24 24 in. 61 61 cm Collage: 16 16 in. 41 41 cm T008870
Josephine Meckseper Untitled, 2017 Pigment print on anodized aluminum, pigment print on acrylic sheeting 22 5/8 40 in. 57.4 101.6 cm Edition of 3 + 1 AP TE003975
Josephine Meckseper Untitled, 2017 Pigment print on anodized aluminum, pigment print on acrylic sheeting 9 15 3/4 in. 22.9 40.1 cm Edition of 5 + 1 AP TE003976
Josephine Meckseper Untitled, 2017 Pigment print on anodized aluminum, pigment print on acrylic sheeting 9 15 3/4 in 22.9 40.1 cm Edition of 5 + 1 AP TE003977
Josephine Meckseper Josephine Meckseper s work conflates the aesthetic language of Modernism with the formal languages of commercial display and advertising. In her shop window installations, large-scale display sculptures, and films, Meckseper exposes the paradoxes of consumer culture through the combination of mass-produced objects with images and artefacts of historical and political events. Meckseper s work has been included in two Whitney Biennials (2006 and 2010); the Sharjah Biennial (2011); and the Taipei Biennial (2014). In 2007 a major retrospective on her work was organised by the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart. Meckseper s large-scale public project, Manhattan Oil Project, was commissioned by the Art Production Fund and installed in a lot adjacent to Times Square in New York, in 2012. In 2015 her works were featured in Storylines, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Zabludowicz Collection: 20 Years, London; and America Is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Her works are in the permanent collections of numerous institutions, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and the Migros Museum, Zurich. Josephine Meckseper was born in 1964 in Lilienthal, Germany and now lives and works in New York. She received her MFA from Cal Arts in 1992. Prior to this she studied at the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin (1986-90).
Biography 1964 1992 1990 Born in Lilienthal, Germany MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California, USA Graduate Studies, Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, Germany Selected Solo Exhibitions 2017 Josephine Meckseper, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City, Mexico On View: Josephine Meckseper, Timothy Taylor 16 34, New York, NY, USA Josephine Meckseper, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany Josephine Meckseper, Gagosian Gallery, Paris, France (catalogue) Josephine Meckseper, Timothy Taylor, London, UK (catalogue) Silver Shadow, Half Gallery, New York, USA 2X(I)ST, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany Josephine Meckseper, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, USA Josephine Meckseper: Platform, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, USA Josephine Meckspecker, Worpsweder Kunsthalle, Worpswede, Germany American Leg, Window Spaces, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada Manhattan Oil Project, with Art Production Fund, The Last Lot, Times Square, New York, USA Josephine Meckseper, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London UK Josephine Meckseper, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA (catalogue) Josephine Meckseper: Contaminator, ARNDT, Project Room, Berlin, Germany You can leave your hat on, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany Josephine Meckseper, Elizabeth Dee Gallery New York, USA (catalogue) Josephine Meckseper, Aussetellungshalle zeitgenössische Kunst, Münster, Germany Josephine Meckseper, Aussetellungshalle Josephine Meckseper: Recent Films, Indianopoilis Museum of Art, Indianopolis, USA Josephine Meckseper, John McWhinnie at Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, New York, USA Josephine Meckseper, Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum of the University of Houston, USA American Apparel, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK Josephine Meckseper, Migros Museum Für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland (catalogue) New Photography 2008: Josephine Meckseper and Mikhael Subotzky, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA Josephine Meckseper, Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany Josephine Meckseper, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, USA Josephine Meckseper, Colette, Paris, France Josephine Meckseper, GAK, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen (catalogue) Josephine Meckseper, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart (catalogue) 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007
2006 2005 2004 2003 2001 Selected Public and Private Collections Josephine Meckseper, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany International Project Room, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, ARCO 2006, Madrid, Spain %, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, USA (catalogue) The Bulletin Board, White Columns, New York, USA IG-Metall und die Künstlichen Paradiese des Politischen, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart (catalogue) Lustgarten, Borgmann Nathusius Galerie, Cologne, Germany Shine - oder Jedem das Seine, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany Baltimore Museum of Art, USA Berezdivin Collection, San Juan, Puerto Rico Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA DekaBank, Frankfurt, Germany FRAC Nord - Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, France Hammer Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, Germany Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA Miami Art Museum, Miami, USA Migros museum für gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia Pérez Art Museum, Miami, USA Saatchi Gallery, London, UK Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA Van Dam Art Collection, The Netherlands Viehof Collection, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
Josephine Meckseper 11 July 23 September 2017 515 West 19th Street, New York, NY 10011 T +1 212 256 1669 info@timothytaylor.com timothytaylor.com