Josephine Meckseper

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Born 1964 in Lilienthal, Germany; lives and works in New York, New York
Education

1990–92 MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
1986–90 Graduate Studies, Hochschule der Künste, Berlin

Selected SOLO Exhibitions

2011 The FLAG Art Foundation, New York (upcoming)

2010
Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart (upcoming)
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 (catalogue)

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 (catalogue)

2007
Josephine Meckseper, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart (catalogue)
Josephine Meckseper , Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart

2006
International Project Room, with Galerie Reinhard Hauff, ARCO 2006 Madrid

2005
%, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York (catalogue)
The Bulletin Board , White Columns, New York

2004
IG-Metall und die künstlichen Paradiese des Politischen, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart
(catalogue)

2003
Lustgarten, Borgmann Nathusius Galerie, Cologne

2001
Shine—oder Jedem das Seine, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2010
The Exquisite Corpse Project, Gasser & Grunert Gallery, New York (catalogue)
Superfemmes, Rathausgalerie Kunsthalle, Munich
You’re Scripted, Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna (catalogue)
CONTACT Toronto Photography Festival , Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art,
Toronto (catalogue)
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 (catalogue)
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 (catalogue)
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 (catalogue)
1989. End of History or Beginning of the Future? Comments on a Paradigm Shift , Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; curated by Gerald Matt (catalogue)
Infinitesimal Eternity—Images Made in the Face of Spectacle, Yale University School of Art Gallery, New Haven (catalogue)
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 (catalogue)
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)
Bildschön. Schönheitskult in der aktuellen Kunst , Städtische Galerie, Karlsruhe (catalogue)
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 (catalogue)

2008                                                                                                                                                                                     Prospect.1 New Orleans, curated by Dan Cameron (catalogue)
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 (catalogue)
Common Affairs: Steirischer Herbst 2008 , Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria (catalogue)
Vertrautes Terrain - Aktuelle Positionen in / über Deutschland , ZKM / Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe (catalogue)
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 (catalogue)
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 (catalogue)
From 60 to 7 , Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Hovikodden, Norway, curated by Frank Lubbers
An Atlas of Events , Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (catalogue)
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 (catalogue)
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 (catalogue)
Just Kick It Till It Breaks , The Kitchen, New York, curated by Debra Singer and Matthew Lyons (catalogue)

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 (catalogue)
The Searchers, EFA Gallery, New York, curated by Molly Dilworth and Amoreen Armetta (catalogue)
USA Today , Works from the Saatchi Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London; traveling to The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (catalogue)
Video America , The Hospital Gallery, London, curated by Neville Wakefield
Big City Lab , Art Forum Berlin, curated by Friederike Nymphius (catalogue)
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 (catalogue)
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 (catalogue)
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 (catalogue)

2005
Experiencing Duration, Biennale d’art contemporain de Lyon 2005, Lyon, curated by Nicolas
Bourriaud and Jérôme Sans (catalogue)
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 (catalogue)
A.B.Normal , NYEHAUS, New York (catalogue)

2004
twinkle, twinkle, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart
Heimweh: Young German Art , London, Haunch of Venison, curated by Juliane von Herz
(catalogue)
The Future Has a Silver Lining: Genealogies of Glamour , Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, curated by Heike Munder and Tom Holert (catalogue)
Dresscode , Kunstverein Neuhausen, Neuhausen/Fildern, Germany
American Idyll , Greene Naftali, New York

2003
Fuckin’ Trendy, Kunsthalle Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany, curated by Ellen Seifermann
(catalogue)
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 (catalogue)
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 (catalogue)
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 (catalogue)

1995                                                                                                                                                                                     Wheel of Fortune, Lombard-Fried Fine Arts, New York
Benefit Exhibition , American Fine Arts, New York
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
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

SELECTED FILM FESTIVALS AND SCREENINGS

2009
Hot or Cold, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Migrating Forms Film Festival, New York

SELECTED LECTURES AND SYMPOSIA

2010
Whitney Contemporaries Gallery Talk with Gary Carrion-Muriyari, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New
York, May 20
Contemporary Photography Forum, Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 18
Young Collectors Council, Guggenheim Museum, New York, February 19

2009
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana, December 10
University of Houston, Houston, Texas, November 12
Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, United Kingdom, July 28
“How Can Art be Political in a Free Market System?,” Rotterdam Dialogues: The Artists, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands, April 16-18 (catalogue)

2008                                                                                                                                                                                     Fundación/Colección Jumex, Mexico City, July 10

2007
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California, November 6

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Monographs , Books and Exhibition Catalogues

2010
Bonami, Francesco and Gary Carrion-Muriyari (editors), 2010, Whitney Biennial, Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York (exhibition catalogue). New Haven: Yale University Press.
Pervasive Influence , CONTACT Photography Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto (exhibition catalogue).
Singer, Debra, Creamier: Contemporary Art in Culture: 10 Curators, 100 Contemporary Artists, 10 Sources. London: Phaidon (forthcoming).

2009
Bildschön. Schönheitskult in der aktuellen Kunst, Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe (exhibition
catalogue).
Dailey, Meghan (introduction), The Shape of Things to Come: New Sculpture. New York:
Rizzoli, pp. 490-511.
Dexter, Emma, 60: Innovators Shaping Our Creative Future, edited by Lucas Dietrich. London:
Thames and Hudson, pp. 314-319.
Extended. Sammlung Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, ZKM / Museum für Neue Kunst Karlsruhe (exhibition catalogue).
Gonzales, Erik, et. al, Infinitesimal Eternity—Images Made in the Face of Spectacle, Yale University School of Art Gallery (exhibition catalogue), edited by George Rush.
Hooper, Rachel, Sylvère Lotringer, and Heike Munder, Josephine Meckseper, Zurich: JRP|Ringier.
Jansen, Gregor and Thomas Thiel (editors), Vertrautes Terrain - Aktuelle Positionen in & über Deutschland, ZKM / Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe (exhibition catalogue). Heidelberg: Kehrer Verlag; pp. 278.
Lotringer, Sylvère, Vitamin 3-D: New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation. London: Phaidon Press, pp. 194-197.
Matt, Gerald, Cathérine Hug and Thomas Mießgang (editors), 1989. Ende der Geschicte oder
Beginn der Zukunft , Kunsthalle Wien and Villa Schöningen (exhibition catalogue). Nuernberg: Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg (forthcoming).
Morality, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art (exhibition catalogue)(forthcoming).
Müller, Vanessa Joan (editor), Béton Brut, Dance in My Experience, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf (exhibition catalogue). Schwarzach am Main: Benedict Press, pp. 11-13, 59.
Neil, Jonathan T.D. (editor), FAX, The Drawing Center (exhibition catalogue). New York: The Drawing Center/Independent Curators International.
Rancière, Jacques, Der emanzipierte Zuschauer, trans. Richard Steurer. Vienna: Passagen Verlag.
Roth, Andrew and Phil Aarons (editors), In Numbers: Serial Publications by Artists Since 1955, New York: PPP Editions; pp. 51-52, 160-164.
Zeigen. An Audio Tour Through Berlin, Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin (exhibition catalogue). Berlin: Temporäre Kunsthalle.

2008                                                                                                                                                                                     Andelkovic, Branislava, Marko Lulic and Thomas Trummer (editors), Zidovi na ulici | Walls in
the Street , Siemens Arts Program, MSUB, Museum of Contemporary Art (exhibition catalogue), pp. 70-75, 194.
Bloemink, Barbara, et. al, Prospect.1 New Orleans (exhibition catalogue), Brooklyn: Picturebox, pp. 238 – 241.
Hoff, James (editor), Top Ten: 1998-2008. New York: No Input Books, p. 304.
Holzwarth, Hans Werner (editor), Art Now Vol. 3. Cologne: Taschen, pp. 308-311.
Lotringer, Sylvère, Gabriele Mackert and Mona Schieren, Quelle International. Josephine Meckseper. Bremen: GAK.
Rancière, Jacques, Le spectateur émancipé. Paris: La Fabrique editions, p. 32, ill.
Schaschl, Sabine, Bettina Steinbrügge, René Zechlin (editors) Cooling Out - On the Paradox of Feminism, Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz/Basel, Switzerland (exhibition catalogue), Zürich: JRP|Ringier, cover and pp. 136-137.
Common Affairs: Steirischer Herbst 2008, Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz: Edition Camera Austria (exhibition catalogue), pp. 95-103, 126.
Tresaco, Boyer, Best New York Art 2008. New York: Theredoom, pp. 18-19.
Weibel, Peter, Vertrautes Terrain - Aktuelle Positionen in & über Deutschland, ZKM / Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe (exhibition brochure), pp. 49, 226.


2007
Baudrillard, Jean, and Sylvère Lotringer (introduction), Forget Foucault. Los Angeles:
Semiotext(e), 2nd Revised Edition, cover ill.
Bourriaud, Nicholas, et. al., Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art: Footnotes about Geopolitics, Market, and Amnesia (exhibition catalogue). Moscow: Artchronika, pp. 102-103.
Brand, Roy (editor), Bare Life, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem (exhibition catalogue), pp. 81-78.
Enwezor, Okwui, Christian Hoeller and Marion Ackermann (editor), Josephine Meckseper. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag.
Hooper, Rachel, “Satire and a Cynical Smile: Josephine Meckseper,” Brave New Worlds, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (exhibition catalogue), edited by Doryun Chung and Yasmil Raymond, pp. 144-149.
Merali, Shaheen (editor), New York – States of Mind. Art in the City (exhibition catalogue), London: Saqi, pp. 116-119.
Ribeiro, Antonio Pinto, An Atlas of Events (exhibition catalogue). Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, pp. 50-51.
Singer, Debra and Matthew Lyons, Just Kick It Till It Breaks, The Kitchen, New York (exhibition catalogue).

2006
Big City Lab, Art Forum Berlin (exhibition catalogue). Berlin: Messe Berlin GmbH.
Dailey, Meghan, Patricia Ellis and Norman Rosenthal, USA Today: New American Art from The Saatchi Gallery (exhibition catalogue). London: Royal Academy of Arts, cover and pp. 248-263.
Day For Night, Whitney Biennial 2006, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (exhibition catalogue). New York: Henry N. Abrams, Inc.
Enwezor, Okwui (editor), The Unhomely: Phantom Scenes in Global Society, 2nd International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville (exhibition catalogue). Seville: Fundación BIACS.
Lotringer, Sylvère, The Josephine Meckseper Catalogue No. 2 (exhibition catalogue), New York and Berlin: Sternberg Press.
Schmidt, Jason, Artists, Paris: Edition 7L., p. 14.
The Searchers, EFA Gallery, New York (exhibition catalogue).
Trial Balloons , Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon, MUSAC, Leon (exhibition catalogue).

2005
A.B.Normal, NYEHAUS, New York (exhibition catalogue).
Bonds of Love , John Connelly Presents, New York (exhibition catalogue). Canada: PAZAZZ.
Expérience de la durée , Biennale d’art contemporain de Lyon 2005 (exhibition catalogue). Paris: Paris Musées.
The Future Has a Silver Lining: Genealogies of Glamour , Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich (exhibition catalogue). Zurich: JRP-Ringier.

2004
Gandhi, Arun, et al., 2/15: The Day the World Said No to War. New York: Hello NYC; Oakland and Edinburgh: AK Press.
H eimweh: Young German Art, Haunch of Venison, London (exhibition catalogue).
Kelsey, John and Andrew Ross, The Josephine Meckseper Catalogue (exhibition catalogue). New York: Lukas & Sternberg.

2003
Fuckin’ Trendy, Kunsthalle Nuremburg (exhibition catalogue).

2000
New New York, The Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, Texas (exhibition catalogue). Austin: Texas Fine Arts Association.

Periodicals, Radio and Television

2010
2010, Visionaire No. 57.
Belenky, Alexander, “Why Aren’t Artists Angry Anymore?,” The Atlantic, March 3.
Bradley, Bill, “A Sneak Peek at the Whitney Biennial,” VF Daily | Vanity Fair, February 25, www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2010/02/a-sneak-peek-at-the-whitney-biennial.html.
Bodin, Claudia, “Got weiss, was Amerika im Schilde führt,” ART Das Kunstmagazin, February
25, www.art-magazin.de/kunst/26831/whitney_biennale_2010_new_york.
Bodin, Claudia, “Immer shön laufen und trinken,” ART Das Kunstmagazin, March 5, http://www.art-magazin.de/kunst/27168/armory_show_new_york.
Budick, Ariella, “Confronting the Void, Guggenheim, New York,” Financial Times, Arts: Design & Architecture, March 4.
“Capture,” Interview, March, p. 72.
Carrion-Muriyari, Gary and Josephine Meckseper, interview by Leonard Lopate, “2010 Whitney Biennial,” The Leonard Lopate Show, WNYC, April 16.
Chaillou, Timothée, "Apparaître Ici," L'art même 46, 1er Trimestre 2010, pp. 12-13.
Decker, Julia, and Lars Reichardt, “Hoffnung is für mich ein duboioser Begriff,” Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, No. 19, May 14, cover and poster insert.
Douglas, Sarah, and Andrew Goldstein, “Bustling Armory Opening Heralds Contemporary Art Market Resurgence,” ARTINFO, March 4, www.artinfo.com/news/story/34062/bustling-armory-opening-shows-contemporary-art-market-resurgence/.
Eberle, Todd, “The Whitney 2010 Ambienalle,” VF Daily | Vanity Fair, February 24, http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2010/02/the-whitney-2010-ambienalle.html.
Egan, Maura, “Fair Game | Playing it Safe at the Armory,” New York Times / T Magazine Blog, March 5, http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/05/fair-game-playing-it-safe-at-the-armory.
Gartenfeld, Alex, “2010,” Art in America Online, April 21, http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/reviews/2010.
“Goings on About Town: Art,” The New Yorker, March 8.
Goldstein, Andrew, Andrew Russeth and Amber Vilas, “Whitney Biennial 2010 Breakdown: The Outliers,” ARTINFO, February 23, www.artinfo.com/news/story/34003/whitney-biennial-2010-breakdown-the-outliers.
Gopnik, Blake, “Art review: Blake Gopnik on 2010 Whitney Biennial, consumed with small
Change,” The Washington Post, March 4, p. C03.
“Guggenheim artists fill ‘void’ with ideas,” France24, February 13, 11:33 PM, and www.france24.com/en/20100213-guggenheim-artists-fill-void-with-ideas.
Halle, Howard, “Art Review: 2010 Whitney Biennial,” Time Out New York, Issue 753, March
4-10.
Häntzschel, Jörg: "Ruhe bitte!: die Krise der amerikanischen Kunst bei der Whitney Biennale,"
Süddeutsche Zeitung, February 27.
Johnson, Ken, “Ahoy From Nudes, a Pirate and Scrooge McDuck,” The New York Times, March 4.
“Josephine Meckseper,” The New Yorker, Goings on About Town: Art
Laster, Paul, “Surveying the 2010 Whitney Biennial,” Flavorwire, February 26, http://flavorwire.com/73377/surveying-the-2010-whitney-biennial
Levin, Todd, “Whitney Biennial: The Voices of Silence,” Flash Art, No. 272, May/June, pp. 61-62.
McGarry, Kevin, “2010: A Small Odyssey,” Rhizome Front Page, March 10,
http://rhizome.org/editorial/3362.
“Meckseper im Whitney,” Stuttgarter Zeitung, February 2.
Phillips, Lisa, “Whitney Biennial,” Interview, February, pp. 100-107.
Smee, Sebastian, “Whitney show is an anthem to the awful,” The Boston Globe, A&E, February 25.
Smith, Roberta, “Creative Debate, Not Too Loud,” The New York Times, The Arts, June 2, pp. C1, C5.
Smith, Roberta, “Take This Museum and Shape It,” The New York Times, Weekend Arts,
February 19, pp. C23, C27.
Szewczyk, Monika, “Josephine Meckseper: American Still Life,” Flash Art, No. 272, May/June, pp. 98-100.
Thorson, Alice, “Whitney Biennial art show keeps a smaller, tighter focus in 2010,” The Kansas
City Star , March 13.
Walker, Benjamen, “WhiBi Conversations: Film and Video,” WNYC Culture Blog, February 18, http://culture.wnyc.org/blogs/whitney-biennial-2010/2010/feb/18/whitney-biennial-converstions-film (ill. only).
Walleston, Aimee, “In the Style of Bonami/Bonami in Profile,” V Magazine Online, http://www.vmagazine.com/article.php?n=14968.
Winklbauer, Andrea, "Vom heissen Atem der Geschichte," Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Kultur, January
20.
Wolff, Sarah, “Best of the Whitney Biennial,” The Daily Beast, February 24, http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-02-24/best-of-the-whitney-biennial.
Yablonsky, Linda, “Whitney Biennial Mishmash Serves Up Michael Jackson, Macrame,”
Bloomberg.com, February 25, www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088.
Yablonsky, Linda, “Women’s Work,” The New York Times Style Magazine, February 28, pp.
142-144.

2009
Ackermann, Tim, “Alles is kommerziell, alles ist politisch,” Welt am Sonntag, Kultur, November
8.
Bodewein, Lena, “Widerstand erzeugen: Josephine Meckseper im Portrait,” ARD German
Radio Network, August 27.
Britt, Douglas, “Unsettling works are order of the day,” Houston Chronicle, September 11, E2.
Buhr, Elke, "Drei Fragen an: Josephine Meckseper," Monopol. Magazin für Kunst und Leben, No.
4, April, p. 14.
Büsing Nicole & Klaas, Heiko, "Auf dem Pulverfass," kunstmarkt.com, April 21.
Danicke, Sandra, “Gnadenlos und schwarzweiß,” Frankfurter Rundschau, March 2.
Dumas, Brittni, “Art. Love. Politics.” Envy Magazine Online, Houston Arts, September 30, http://envymags.com/2009/09/art-love-politics/.
Fronz, Hans-Dieter, “Schönheit als Ware,” Badische Zeitung, May 7.
Glauner, Max, "Josephine Meckseper, Kapitalismuskritik reloaded," Kunstforum International,
No. 196, April/May, pp. 363-364.
Hess, Eva, "Wollt ihr die totale Kunst?," SonntagsZeitung, February 15.
Kaufman, Anthony, “’Migrating Forms’ at Anthology Film Archives,” The Village Voice, April 15.
Krebs, Edith, "Alles geht fein säuberlich auf," Die Wochenzeitung, March 19.
McQuaid, Cate, “Videos, then and now, tell a story,” The Boston Globe, January 4.
Meckseper, Josephine, “Josephine Meckseper on Birkenstocks’ unearned radical rep,” TAR Magazine, No. 2, Spring, p. 118.
Meier, Philipp, "Strahlender Abglanz des amerikanischen Albtraums," Neue Züricher Zeitung, February 24.
“migrosmuseum | Josephine Meckseper,” Art-TV.ch, February.
Müller, Sabine, “Hemmungslose Verführer – Austellung: Josephine Meckseper übt in Münster Kapitalismuskritik,” Münstersche Zeitung, No. 247, October 22, Kultur.
Powers, Bill, “Car Culture | Josephine Meckseper,” New York Times / T Magazine Blog, September 24, http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/24/car-culture-josephine-meckseper.
Richter, Peter, “Der Mann mit den Mädchen,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, No. 5, February 1.
Santilli, Paula, “Crítica Realidad,” Semana, September 13-19, Culture, p. 22.
Schindler, Felix, "Politische Kunst in gestylter Kulisse," Tages-Anzeiger, February 23.
Schroeder, Mariana, “A Video Artist’s Uncompromising Political Takes,” Wall Street Journal Online, March 26, Europe News.
Sherwin, Skye, "Josephine Meckseper," Art Review, Issue 30, April, p. 25.
Spampinato, Francesco, Arte e Crimini di Josephine Meckseper,” Impakt, No. 2, October.
Stevenson, Bob, “Josephine Meckseper,” The Front Row, KUHF Houston Public Radio, October 20.
“Subtile Analyse des amerikanischen Wertesystems: Künstlerin Josephine Meckseper stellt neue Werke in Münster aus,” Stadtmagazin Echo Münster Online, Kultur, October 22, http://www.echo-muenster.de/node/5624.
“Transatlantic,” Parkett, No. 85, June, pp. 34, 38.
Trieloff, Sabine, “Josephine Meckseper / Migros Museum, Zürich,” Vernissage.tv, February 27.
Ullmer, Brigitte, “Ich nehme der Kunst ihren Sonderstatus,” Du Magazin, No. 795, April, pp. 122-124.
Wang, Michael, “Form and Function,” Artforum.com, April 10.
Wendland, Johannes, "Krieg und Konsum," Handelsblatt, February 27.
Wewer, Antje, “Die Schwarz-Weiß-Malerin,” Süddeutsche Zeitung, March 21.
Wiginton, Christina, “Prop Star,” HOUSTON Magazine, September, pp. 12 and 44.
“Wirtschaftskrise und Konsumrausch Die Kunst der Josephine Meckseper,” Kunst Raum Münster, No. 4, October-December, pp. 9, 21, and 24.

2008                                                                                                                                                                                     Amado, Miguel, “An Atlas of Events. Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation” Artforum, February, p.
309.
Bayer, Helen,"FAT Magazine," Next Level, Edition 13, pp. 110-113.
Bodin, Claudia and Jürgen Frank, "New York und ich," Art (Germany), No. 10, October, p. 53.
Büsing, Nicole and Heiko Klaas,”The Erosion of the Symbolic, Josephine Meckseper,” Next Level, Edition 13, pp. 74-77.
Carlin, T.J., “Art review: ‘That Was Then...This is Now,’” Time Out New York, September 11-17.
Dany, Hans-Christian, "Josephine Meckseper," Springerin, No. 02, Spring, p. 57.
Gillick, Liam, "Josephine Meckseper," Interview, November, pp. 48-49.
Halle, Howard, "Josephine Meckseper," Time Out New York, May 15-21, p. 73.
Hildebranst, Tina and Heinrich Welfing, “Was tun wenn’s brennt?,” Zeit Magazin Leben, February 28, pp. 18-21.
Johnson, Ken, "Josephine Meckseper," The New York Times, May 16, p. E29.
Johnson, Ken, "Will the Revolution Be Museumized? Will There Be a Revolution?," The New York Times, July 25.
Jones, Kristin M., "Josephine Meckseper," frieze.com, May 8.
Judd, Flavin, "Josephine Meckseper," BOMBsite.com, December 11.
Kastner, Jeffrey, "Party Lines," Art and Auction, July.
Mummenhoff, Julia, "Ornament der Masse," Spike Art Quarterly, No. 15, Spring, pp. 123-124.
Probst, Carsten, "Zeitgeist-Rebellin," Deutschlandradio, February 16.
Raab, Jürgen, "Aktionen & Projekte," Kunstforum International, No. 193, September-October, p. 412.
Rosenberg, Karen, "Splitting a Gallery in Half to Focus on Social Strife," The New York Times, September 11.
Schirrmeister, Benno, "Kunst, so unromantisch, wie es nur geht," die tageszeitung, February 21.
Schneider, Konstantin, “Josephine Meckseper: Gewagtes Spiel/Going for Broke,” Berliner Kunstkontakter, http://www.berlinerkunstkontakter.de/flash/kw3708/meckseper20092008.htm.
Spampinato, Francesco, “Arte e Crimini di Josephine Meckseper,” Impakt, No. 2, October.
"Steirischer Herbst 2008," Camera Austria, 102/2008, July.
"Untitled, 2008," herbst. Theorie zur Praxis, Graz: Steirischer Herbst, pp. 90-97.
Zhong, Fan, “New Photography 2008: Josephine Meckseper and Mikhael Subotzky,” Interview, September.

2007
Artnet Questionnaire, “Where is Josephine Meckseper,” artnet.de, September 20.
Amado, Miguel, “Just Kick It Till It Breaks,” Artforum.com.
Braun, Adrienne, “Die Demo als Deko,” Süddeutsche Zeitung, July 17, p. 13.
Bryan-Wilson, Julia, “Josephine Meckseper: Display; the female form and protest culture,” Frieze No. 105, March, p. 166.
Büsing, Nicole & Klaas, Heiko, “Josephine Meckseper,” artist kunstmagazin 72, February, pp. 22-27.
Büsing, Nicole & Klaas, Heiko, “Josephine Meckseper: Die Kunst der stilvollen Anarchie,” spiegelonline.de, July 14.
Carnevale, Fulvia and John Kelsey, “Art of the Possible: An interview with Jacques Rancière,” Artforum, March, p. 259.
Christofori, Ralf, Checkpoint, Jan - April 2007, pp. 60-69 (excerpt from Monopol, No. 04/2005).
Christofori, Ralf, “Schöne Ware Welt,” Der Tagesspiegel, August 12, p. 26.
Columbus, Nikki, “Previews: Josephine Meckseper,” Artforum, May, p. 206.
Cotter, Holland, “Just Kick It Till It Breaks,” New York Times, April 13, p. E34.
Cumming, Laura, “Go ahead and shock me," The Guardian (London), January 7.
Deepwell, Katy, "Social Feminism and the question of difference," n.paradoxa, Vol. 19, January, p. 94.
Diez, Georg, “Atelierbesuch: Josephine Meckseper,” ZEIT magazin Leben, 27/07, June 28, pp. 46-48.
Fox, Dan, “USA Today,” Frieze, No. 105, March, p. 183.
Frenzel, Sebastian, “Ich bin dann mal links,” Vanity Fair 07/29, July 12, pp. 112-115.
Genocchio, Benjamin, “Resistance Is...,” The New York Times, Museum and Gallery Listings, July 6.
Harris, Jane. “Art and Politics,” Artnet.com, August 29.
Herbert, Martin, “2nd Seville Biennial,” Frieze, No. 104, January/February, pp. 162-163.
Johnson, Ken, "Never Mind the Map: Sometimes New York City is More of an Idea" (Art
Review: New York States of Mind), The New York Times, December 12.
“Josephine Meckseper Ausstellung im Kunstmuseum Stuttgart,” arte Kultur, arte-televison, July 10.
“Josephine Meckseper Ausstellung im Kunstmuseum Stuttgart”, Nachtkultur, SWR 3-television, July 13.
Kedves, Jan, “Wäschetag,” Monopol, Magazin für Kunst und Leben, No. 6, June, pp. 68-75.
Knöfel, Ulrike, “Die Frau ist schwierig,” Der Spiegel 42/2007, October 15, pp. 182-183.
Kuni, Verena, “Josephine Meckseper im Kunstmuseum” Kunstbulletin, September 20, p. 60.
“Kunstmuseum in Stuttgart zeigt das Werk der Konzeptkünstlerin Meckseper,” tagesthemen, ARD-television, July 13.
Leisten, Georg, “Die Warenwelt verdaut ihre Kritiker,” Stuttgarter Zeitung, July 14, p. 33.
Léith, Caoimhín Mac Giolla, “Cooling Out,” Frieze, No. 105, March, pp. 180-181.
McElheny, Josiah, “Readymade Resistance,” Artforum, No. 6, October, pp. 331-332.
Meckseper, Josephine, “The Artists’ Artists,” Artforum, December, p. 132.
Meinhardt, Johannes, “Josephine Meckseper: In den Fängen der Konnotation,” Kunstforum International 188/07, July, pp. 431-432.
Merali, Shaheen, “Biennials/Survey Shows,” Frieze, No. 104, January/February, p. 125.
Peine, Sibylle, “Lob des Designer-Hammers,” Die Welt, August 3, p. 24.
“Portfolio,” Art on Paper, January/February, cover and pp. 44-45.
Reier, Sharon, “Contemporary Art: Follow the money,” Herald Tribune, January 27-28.
Rosenau, Mirja, “Sexy Stützstrümpfe,” Art, October, p. 89.
Rosenberg, Karen, “At Fairs by the Beach, The Sands of Creativity,” The New York Times, December 8, pp. A15, A19.
Sansom, Anna, “This city is a riot. Josephine Meckseper,” Sleek Magazine, No. 13, Winter 2006/2007, pp. 110-115.
Schumacher, Hajo, “Gefaehrliche Liebschaften,” Sueddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, February 9, pp. 8-9.
Ullrich, Wolfgang, “Der Duft der Kapitalismuskritik,” die tageszeitung, September 18, p. 21.
Widmann, Arno, “Den Durchblick simulieren,” Frankfurter Rundschau, August 3, p. 37.
Woeller, Marcus, “Der große Kunstrabatt,” die tageszeitung, July 23, p. 15.

2006
"Academy plans new US art showcase," BBC News, April 5.
Andrews, Max, “Trial Ballons,” Frieze, October, pp. 262-263.
“American Expressions,” Harper’s Bazaar, November, p. 112.
Baker, R.C., “Adrian Piper, Eric Baudelaire, Josephine Meckseper, Wayne Gonzales,” Village Voice, December 6.
Bollen, Christopher, “Adrian Piper, Wayne Gonzales, Eric Baudelaire, Josephine Meckseper,” New York Times, December 8.
Burn, Gordon, “Make it new,” Saturday Guardian, October 14, pp. 12-13.
Clayton, Richard, “Legends of the Fall,” The Sunday Times Culture Magazine, September 17, p. 10.
"Cool Feminists," Irish Arts Review, October, p. 35.
Coulson, Amanda, “Emerging Artists, Josephine Meckseper,” Modern Painters (London), March, pp. 60-62.
Dunne, Aiden, “This Ain’t No Fooling Around,” The Irish Times, April 7.
Eleey, Peter, “2006 Whitney Biennale,” Frieze, June-August, pp. 256-57.
Ellis, Patricia, “Catching up with Charles (Saatchi),” Flash Art, October, pp. 66-67.
Falconer, Morgan, “The States They’re In,” The Times 2, October 4, p. 15.
Gopnik, Blake, “Red, White and Bleak,” The Washington Post, March 2, p. C1.
Johnson, Ken, “Cady Noland Approximately,” The New York Times, May 12, p. E32.
Knöfel, Ulrike, “Die Zeitgeist-Rebellin,” Der Spiegel, July 10, pp. 126-127.
Lewis, Ben, “Private View,” Prospect, July, p. 60.
Lienhard, Tim, “Josephine Meckseper: Eine Deutsche bei der New Yorker Whitney Biennale,” Arte-televison (Germany, France), March 4.
Littlejohn, Georgina, “Academy feud,” Evening Standard (News Extra), May 11, p. 19.
Markovits, Benjamin, “Culture sculpture,” The Times Literary Supplement, November 3, p. 18.
McKeith, Eimear, “A war on the road to nowhere,” Dublin Sunday Tribune, April 16.
Meckseper, Josephine, "A Project for Atlántica." Atlántica Magazine, Summer, p. 78-89.
O'Brien, Treasa, "Cooling Out – on the paradox of feminism," Circa, No. 118, Winter, pp. 92-95.
Pisano, Hortense, "Bomben, Sexbomben überhaupt," die tageszeitung, September 19.
Porter, Charlie, “Demand Economy,” GQ Style: Luxury Edition, Autumn/Winter.
Reynolds, Nigel, “Saatchi is ready for another sensation at the RA” Daily Telegraph, April 4.
Rosenberg, Karen, “Ready to Watch,” New York Magazine, February 27, pp. 46-48.
Scott, Andrea, “Exhibit A-list,” Time Out New York, February 23-March 1, pp. 16-22.
Scott, Andrea, “Josephine Meckseper, ‘%’,” Time Out New York, January 12-18, p. 58.
Sholis, Brian, “Josephine Meckseper,” Artforum, February, pp. 111-112.
Smith, Roberta, “Josephine Meckseper,” The New York Times, January 6, p. E34.
Spiegler, Marc, “American Renaissance,” The Art Newspaper, No. 171, July-August, p. 32.
“USA Today: New American Art from The Saatchi Gallery,” The Week, October 14, p. 31.
Von Burg, Dominique, “Im Taumel vielfaeltiger weiblicher Lebensentwuerfe,“ Kunstbulletin, cover and pp. 36-47.
Ward, Ossian, “Young Americans,” DB Artmag No. 38, October, p. 13.
Wullschlager, Jackie, “An Ad-man’s Snapshot of America,” Financial Times, October 9, p. 11.

2005
Ammirati, Domenick, “Critics’ Picks: Bonds of Love,” Artforum.com, September.
Christofori, Ralf, “Josephine Meckseper,” Monopol, Berlin, August, p. 22-33.
Doran, Anne, “‘Girls on Film’: Zwirner & Wirth,” Time Out New York, September 1–7, p. 57.
Egan, Maura, “Au Courant,” New York Times Style Magazine, November, p. 26.
“Experiencing Duration, Biennale d’art Contemporain de Lyon, 2005,” Flash Art, December, pp. 97-98.
Kurbjuweit, Dirk, “Putsch gegen die Wirklichkeit: Gerhard Schröder will das Wahlergebnis nicht akzeptieren,” Der Spiegel, 39, September 26, p. 165.
Meckseper, Josephine, “Top Ten,” Artforum, Summer, p. 142.
“Neue Kunst,” Berliner Zeitung, September 29, pp. 1, 34 and cover.
Studer, Margaret, “Autumn Is for Art Fairs,” The Wall Street Journal Europe, September 23–25, cover and p. 1.

2004
Gopnik, Blake, “Studio Visit: The Artist at Home with Contradictions,” The Washington Post,
April 13, pp. C1, C7.
Harrison, Sarah, “Heimweh: Young German Art,” Art Monthly, October.
Herbert, Martin, “Heimweh: Young German Art,” Time Out London, September 29–October 6.
Mayer, Gabriele, “Frauen brauchen schusssichere Kleider,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, January 14, p. 33.
Ross, Andrew, "Low Pay, High Profile," The New Press.
Zimmermann, Annina, “The Future Has a Silver Lining: Genealogies of Glamour,” Springerin 3, p. 69.

2003
Ammirati, Domenick, “Critics’ Pick: Josephine Meckseper,” Artforum.com, May–June.
Appel, Stefanie, “Volkskunst,” Prinz (Frankfurt), May 30.
Buhr, Elke, “Auf dem Meldeamt,” Frankfurter Rundschau, May 15.
Christofori, Ralf, “Die verlorene Heimat der Lara Croft,” Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten, July 8.
Pisano, Hortense, “Globale und lokale Zeichentraeger,” TAZ (Berlin/Frankfurt) June 5, p. 17.
Reed, John, “Editor's Choice: Josephine Meckseper,” Bomb, Summer/Fall, p. 20.
Urban, Regina, “Designerkleider als feuerfester Schutzanzug,” Nuernberger Nachrichten,
December 10, p. 27.
Verwoert, Jan, “Nation-Stereotyen en iconen van het globalisme,” Metropolis M 4, p. 157.

2002
Albers, Markus, Welt am Sonntag (Berlin), September 22, p. 53.
Christofori, Ralf, “Pop-politische Wahlversprechen,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, January 5.
Feist, Silvia, “Radikales Flimmern,” Vogue (Germany), February, p. 132.

2001
“Verkitschte Flagge,” Stuttgarter Zeitung, November 20.

2000
Chaplin, Julia, “They Like it Like That,” Smock (New York), November, p. 40.
“Fette Welt,” Marie Claire (Germany), February, p. 21.
Freund, Michael, “Feuer unterem Hintern, Nummerngirls in Glitzerwaesche," Der Standard (Vienna), January 8, Album section, p. 5.
Schachter, Kenny, “Lifer,” Zing magazine, Spring/Summer, p. 249.
Schmidt, Jason, “Beds,” Flaunt, December/January.

1999
“Criss Cross: Some Young New Yorkers III,” Zing magazine (New York), Winter, p. 5.
Levin, Kim, “Overflow,” The Village Voice (New York), August 3, p. 72.
“Mob Rule: Material and Narrative,” New York Arts Magazine 32, April 7.
“Pop Art,” New York Post, March 30, p. 6.
Smith, Roberta, “Free Coke,” The New York Times, February 26, p. E41.
Waldherr, Gerhard, "Die Poesie von Mord und Totschlag," Die Sueddeutsche Zeitung (Munich), October 2-3, p. 7.

1998
Estrela, Alexandre, “Josephine Meckseper,” Biblia (Lisbon), December, pp. 34–35.
Von Schlegell, Mark, “Selective Affinities,” New York Arts Magazine, June, p. 17.

1996                                                                                                                                                                                     Haden-Guest, Anthony, "True Colors: The Real Life of the Art World," New York: The Atlantic
Monthly Press , p. 337.
Mattussek, Matthias, “Stolzes Absaufen,” Der Spiegel 4, p. 177.
Müller, Katrin Bettina, “Zeitschleife,” Der Tagesspiegel, July 11, p. 26.
Saltz, Jerry, “Summer Group Show,” Time Out, July 24–31, p. 34.
“The Eight Day Weekend,” The New York Observer, February 12.

1995                                                                                                                                                                                     Held, Matthias, “Ruhm oder Rueckfahrkarte,” Allegra Magazin (Hamburg), October, pp. 170–72.
Hertin, Katja, “New York/Berlin,” Der Tagesspiegel (Berlin) December 11, p. 12.
“ML Mona Lisa: New York,” ZDF Television, Germany.
“New FAT,” Adbusters, Vol. 3, no. 3, Winter.

1994                                                 &nb

  • Josephine Meckseper at the Guggenheim Museum 1 Apr 2010

    February 12—April 28, 2010

    Since its opening in 1959, the Frank Lloyd Wright–designed Guggenheim building has served as an inspiration for invention, challenging artists and architects to react to its eccentric, organic design. The central void of the rotunda has elicited many unique responses over the years, which have been manifested in both site-specific solo shows and memorable exhibition designs. For the building’s 50th anniversary, the Guggenheim Museum invited nearly two hundred artists, architects, and designers to imagine their dream interventions in the space for the exhibition Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum. Organized by Nancy Spector, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, and David van der Leer, Assistant Curator for Architecture and Design, the exhibition will feature renderings of these visionary projects in a salon-style installation that will emphasize the rich and diverse range of the proposals received.

    http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/on-view-now/contemplating-the-void

  • Josephine Meckseper at the Ausstellungshalle zeitgenössische Kunst Münster 24 Oct 2009
  • Josephine Meckseper solo exhibition at the Migros Museum, Zurich 1 Jan 2009
    February 21 – May 3, 2009

    Josephine Meckseper has pursued the capitalist-critique approach of recent years with subject areas agitating around the Iraq war and the oil industry with all their inherent economic and socio-political implications, in particular regarding the automobile industry. The exhibition in the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst is to display a new series of works developed from this context. Meckseper’s object arrangements recall the window displays of department stores and expensive boutiques, re-contextualizing the exhibited objects: the shibboleths are ascribed a new significance – from now on a consumerist lifestyle posture.
    www.migrosmuseum.ch/ausstellung/fs_main.php?object=ausstell&key=108⟨=en&back=/ausstellung/jahresprogramm.php
  • Josephine Meckseper in Prospect. 1 New Orleans 27 Oct 2008

    November 1, 2008 – January 18, 2009 

    On November 1, 2008, Prospect.1 New Orleans [P.1], the largest biennial of international contemporary art ever organized in the United States, will open to the public in museums, historic buildings, and found sites throughout New Orleans. Prospect.1 New Orleans [P.1] has been conceived in the tradition of the great international biennials, and will showcase new artistic practices as well as an array of programs benefiting the local community. Over the course of its eleven-week run, Prospect.1 New Orleans [P.1] plans to draw international media attention, creative energy, and new economic activity to the city of New Orleans. Curated by Dan Cameron.

    http://prospectneworleans.org/

  • Josephine Meckseper in New Photography 2008 at MoMA 8 Aug 2008

    MoMA New Photography 2008: Josephine Meckseper and Mikhael Subotzky

    September 10, 2008–January 5, 2009

    New Photography is the annual fall showcase of significant recent work in photography. This year's exhibition features the work of Josephine Meckseper (German, b. 1964) and Mikhael Subotzky (South African, b. 1981). In her photographs and signature vitrine displays, Meckseper explores the media's strategy of mixing political news and advertising content. Her installation includes a selection of larger-than-life-size photographs of models dressed in vintage lingerie from the 1950s, from her 2006 Blow-Up series. Also included is Quelle International (2008), a new group of pictures culled from a mail order catalogue popular in Germany in the 1970s that have been printed on reflective Mylar. In both series the artist uses the semantic codes of advertising to address issues of power and consumerism.

    http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/exhibitions.php?id=8380&ref=calendar

  • Josephine Meckseper in "Brave New Worlds" at the Walker Art Center 15 Oct 2007

    October 4, 2007 – February 17, 2008
    Some artworks offer escape: fanciful worlds, soothing aesthetics, images and ideas made to calm and comfort. Others nudge us to question and reflect on realities facing us as individuals and as a society. The latter definition of art guides the exhibition Brave New Worlds, which considers the present state of political consciousness, expressed through the questions of how to live, experience, and dream. Organized by Walker visual arts curators Doryun Chong and Yasmil Raymond, the exhibition of some 70 works by 24 artists from 17 countries doesn’t resort to simplistic notions of “political art.” Instead, the diverse artistic voices gathered here seek different potentials for engagement and thus collectively offer a look beyond glib expressions of globalism.

    WALKER ART CENTER

  • Alex Bag and Josephine Meckseper in "Fit to Print" at Gagosian Gallery 15 Oct 2007

    The upcoming exhibition for Gagosian Gallery’s new fifth floor space at 980 Madison Avenue, Fit to Print, focuses on the medium of collage, specifically works that utilize printed media in a prominent fashion. To set a contemporary tone, every work included in this exhibition will have been made since January 2000. This focus will bring to light the work of many international artists united by the common theme of the media in print and its myriad forms.

    This exhibition seeks to expose an artist’s compulsion to react to the steady stream of information that print media supplies. The work on view will range from meditations on formal composition to personal takes on current events.

  • Josephine Meckseper solo show opens at Kunstmuseum, Stuttgart 28 Jun 2007

    14 July – 28 October 2007
    The German newsmagazine, Spiegel called the conceptual artist, Josephine Meckseper, a "rebel against the zeitgeist." The magazine, Die Zeit, characterized her as a sophisticated admirer of the works of Jean Baudrillard. A German-born artist who has lived and worked in New York since the early 90s, Meckseper has achieved international recognition with her participation in noteworthy exhibitions and biennial contemporary art shows such as the Whitney Biennale in 2006 and the Moscow Biennale in 2007. The Kunstmuseum Stuttgart is the artist's first solo museum exhibition. In the 1,200-square-meter space, over 150 works from Meckseper's oeuvre consisting of her earliest creations, to new work created especially for the Stuttgart exhibition will be on display. Meckseper is a multimedia conceptual artist using a variety of techniques: She creates large installations, window displays, sculptures, paintings, photographs and films.

    Visit the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart website for more info

  • The Josephine Meckseper Catalogue No. 2

    by Sylvere Lontringer (Author)

    Produced by Elizabeth Dee Gallery this fully illustrated, artist-designed catalogue features the most recent work of New York-based Josephine Meckseper, including her work for the 2006 Whitney Biennial. The artist suggests that our desire for luxury goods and fashion is induced by media-driven ruling regimes, and comes to the conclusion that partisan politics are just another status symbol. Radicalism quickly morphs into radical chic, which is just one more object to be fetishized and sold in a museum-gallery-boutique that samples utopian dreams ranging from the communists to the hippies.

    Paperback: 48 pages
    Publisher: Sternberg Press; Elizabeth Dee Gallery, LLC (September 1, 2006)
    Language: English
    ISBN-10: 1933128143
    ISBN-13: 978-1933128146

    To order please visit Amazon.com

  • Josephine Meckseper (Hardcover)

    by Okwui Enwezor (Author), Marion Ackermann (Author), Christian Holler (Author), Josephine Meckseper (Author), Simone Schimpf (Contributor)

    The work of the New York-based German conceptualist, Josephine Meckseper, deals with themes of consumerism and commodity fetishism in modern society. For example, her shop window installations, Shelves, juxtapose fashion accessories with regalia, such as Palesetinian kaffiyeh, taken from left wing protest movements. The connection between consumerism and politics was initially sparked by the confluence of luxury advertising and political news, but Meckseper also does straight politics--she has filmed anti-Bush demonstrations and Berlin protest marches. The resulting work is held in the Saatchi Collection among others, and appeared in the 2006 Whitney Biennial. This monograph, which also features contributions from Okwui Enwezor, Christian Holler and Simone Schimpf, presents a concise overview of Meckseper's visual worlds, in a wide range of video, collage, painting, sculpture and installation. Born in 1964, Meckseper was deemed one of the top ten artists to watch by New York magazine in 1996.

    Hardcover: 120 pages
    Publisher: Hatje Cantz (December 1, 2007)
    Language: English
    ISBN-10: 3775719865
    ISBN-13: 978-3775719865

    To order please visit Amazon.com

  • The Josephine Meckseper Catalog

    by John Kelsey (Author), Andrew Ross (Author)

    Paperback: 48 pages
    Publisher: Lukas & Sternberg; Bilingual edition (November 2004)
    Language: German
    ISBN-10: 1933128003
    ISBN-13: 978-1933128009

    To order please visit Amazon.com

  • USA Today: New American Art from the Saatchi Gallery

    By Meghan Dailey (Author), Norman Rosenthal (Author)

    Features Josephine Meckseper and Ryan Trecartin

    This 400-page blockbuster, designed in close consultation with renowned contemporary art collector Charles Saatchi, showcases 250 works—paintings, constructions, sculpture, and photography—by 40 artists from across the U.S.A.
    This is a new generation of American art; most of the works are less than two years old and focus on artists’ views of world events and America’s place in global society. Artists profiled include Banks Violette, Kelley Walker, Matthew Monahan, Terence Koh, Christoph Schmidberger, Inka Essenhigh, Dash Snow, Josephine Meckseper and many others. Together, in this stunning volume, they offer an astounding, controversial, and wide-ranging collection.

    Paperback: 400 pages
    Publisher: Royal Academy of the Arts (February 1, 2007)
    Language: English
    ISBN-10: 1903973961
    ISBN-13: 978-1903973967

    To order please visit Amazon.com

  • Brave New Worlds

    Text by Doryun Chong & Yasmil Raymond

    Features Josephine Meckseper

    Addressing contemporary international art beyond glib expressions of globalism, Brave New Worlds assesses the current state of political consciousness and its multivalent artistic manifestations in an era characterized by the unraveling of a unified world order. Guided by the questions "How do we know?," "How do we experience?" and "How do we dream about the world?," 24 artists from Southeastern Europe to South America, from the Middle East to East Asia and from North Africa to North America propose their own answers in paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations and videos. The catalogue includes several brief "correspondent" essays, inspired by newspaper reports and penned by an international cast of young art historians, critics and curators, including Max Andrews and Mariana Canepa Luna (Spain), Cecilia Brunson (Chile), Hu Fang (China), Tone Hansen (Norway), Mihnea Mircan (Romania) and Jose Roca (Colombia). Recent texts by philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah, celebrated author and activist Arundhati Roy and award-winning foreign correspondent Janine di Giovanni provide additional perspectives on global affairs of the past decade. In addition, Brave New Worlds features an artist insert by Lia Perjovschi of Romania, entitled "Subjective Art History from Modernism to Today," and entries on each individual artist.

    Paperback: 272 pages
    Publisher: Walker Art Center (November 1, 2007)
    Language: English
    ISBN-10: 0935640894
    ISBN-13: 978-0935640892

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  • 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (Catalogue)

    Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art: Footnotes about Geopolitics, Markets and Amnesia, curated by Joseph Backstein, Daniel Birnbaum, Nicolas Bourriaud, Fuliya Erdemchi, Gunnar B. Kvaran, Rosa Martinez and Hans Ulrich Obrist

    Features Josephine Meckseper and Meredyth Sparks

    Unlike the First Moscow Biennale, the international team of curators presented a number of shows produced by individual curators or groups of curators instead of a common collective project. All these projects shared the common theme of FOOTNOTES on Geopolitics, Market, and Amnesia, and presented the works of more than 80 artists. The organizers believed that the structure of the main project, which can be figuratively compared to a book divided into chapters, helped spectators review the issues that will be presented from various points of view.
    The catalogue of the 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art consists of three books:
    Biennale's Main Project "Footnotes on geopolitics, market and amnesia" (Russian version)
    Biennale's Main Project "Footnotes on geopolitics, market and amnesia" (English version)
    Biennale's Special Projects (Russian and English versions)

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  • Whitney Biennial 2006: Day for Night (Catalogue)

    Features Ryan Trecartin and Josephine Meckseper

    The 2006 Whitney Biennial catalogue, with 800 pages and more than 200 images, uses an innovative book format in order to present a remarkable artists’ section, "Draw Me a Sheep." Borrowing its title from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince, the section is a collection of individual artist pages done as a series of four-panel “poster” foldouts. By inviting each artist to create a page for the book, "Draw Me a Sheep" presents an image from the artist's world and explores how each artist deals with representation in his or her own time.

    Introduction and a conversation between the curators, Chrissie Iles and Philippe Vergne and the art historian Toni Burlap; foreword by Whitney director Adam D. Weinberg; and contributions by critic and teacher Johanna Burton; Bradley Eros, an artist, experimental filmmaker, curator, writer, performer, and researcher, whose work was shown in the 2004 Whitney Biennial; Lia Gangitano, founder and director of Participant Inc. and former curator of The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston and Thread Waxing Space, New York; Bruce Hainley, a contributing editor of Artforum and Associate Director of Graduate Studies in Criticism & Theory at Art Center College of Design; Molly Nesbit, a professor of Art at Vassar College and a contributing editor of Artforum; cultural historian and media scholar Siva Vaidhyanathan; and writer and cultural commentator Neville Wakefield. In addition the book includes excerpts from a series of articles by the writer and noted French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy

    2006 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

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  • The Unhomely: Phantom Scenes in Global Society

    by Okwui Enwezor (Editor)

    Features Josephine Meckseper

    Focusing on the contemporary confluence of aesthetics and politics, The Unhomely: Phantom Scenes in Global Society is concerned with the complexities of intimacy, proximity, antagonism, and renews. Published in conjunction with the Second International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville (Biacs 2), The Unhomely: Phantom Scenes in Global Society functions as more than simply a catalog for the exhibition. The book features essays by Judith Butler, Okwui Enwezor, Martin Heidegger, Thomas Keenan, Achilles Mbembe, Retort, Alberto Ruiz de Samaniego, Terry Smith, and Ruti Teitel, as well as featuring images from the artwork of the ninety-one artists featured in the biennial. Focusing on the contemporary confluence of aesthetics and politics, The Unhomely: Phantom Scenes in Global Society is concerned with the complexities of intimacy, proximity, antagonism, and renews the call for neighborliness in the present condition. Edited by Okwui Enwezor, Artistic Director of Biacs 2.

    Paperback: 336 pages
    Publisher: Biacs (December 1, 2006)
    Language: English
    ISBN-10: 8493487937
    ISBN-13: 978-8493487935
    Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.6 x 1.1 inches

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  • Josephine Meckseper

    by Rachel Hooper (Editor / Author), Gail Kirkpatrick (Editor), Heike Munder (Editor / Author), Sylvère Lotringer (Author)

    In her photography, videos, and installations Josephine Meckseper (born in Lilienthal, 1964, lives and works in New York) engages with the interaction between politics and glamour. Thus, in her works, images of political activism—whether photographs of demonstrations or newspaper cuttings—are set against sparkling consumer goods and advertising motifs, evoking a paradoxical effect. On the one hand, the pop-political vocabulary of forms appears absurd in its opposing ideological effect; on the other, the artist discloses references by interpolating them seamlessly in a decorative and apparently elegant display. Meckseper has pursued the capitalist-critique approach of recent years, with subject areas agitating around the war in Iraq and the oil industry, with all their inherent economic and socio-political implications, in particular those concerning the automobile industry. The publication concentrates on a new series of works developed from this context. Hence in the installation "Ten High" (2007) numerous silver shop display dummies converge on a mirror smooth platform holding in their hands objects such as signs, bearing anti-war slogans like "No War in Iran" or the notorious recession signal "Going Out of Business/Sale," a whisky bottle or a bible and other classical American "icons." Meckseper's object arrangements recall the window displays of department stores and expensive boutiques, re-contextualising the exhibited objects: the shibboleths are ascribed a new significance—from now on a consumerist lifestyle posture.

    Published with the migros museum für gegenwartskunst, Zurich; Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston; and Ausstellungshalle zeitgenössische Kunst Münster.

    Hardcover: 96 pages
    Publisher: JRP-Ringier (June 2009)
    Language: English / German
    ISBN: 978-3-03764-047-0

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  • Vitamin 3-D: New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation

    Features Josephine Meckseper and Mika Tajima

    "Vitamin 3-D: New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation" is an up-to-the-minute survey of current global developments in contemporary sculpture and its close relative, installation. This vast medium of sculpture continues to be a central pillar of artistic practice, and "Vitamin 3-D" presents the outstanding artists who are engaging with and pushing the boundaries of the medium. "Vitamin 3-D" follows the success of "Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting", "Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing" and "Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives in Photography", presenting a cross-generational survey of contemporary artists from 27 countries. Chosen from more than 500 nominations by significant international critics, curators, art historians and creative writers, "Vitamin 3-D"'s 117 established and emerging artists were selected on the basis that they have made a significant contribution to sculpture and installation (in their broadest sense) in the last five years. "Vitamin 3-D" allows the reader to look at the medium in detail, to study sculpture's unique properties in relation to itself, in relation to contemporary art and in relation to the world at large. An ongoing fascination with the key issues of modern sculpture, from the readymade to the specific object, today drives many artists to return to those issues again and again, with fresh and often surprising results. In her evocative introductory essay for "Vitamin 3-D", Anne Ellegood uses Rosalind Krauss' landmark 1978 essay "Sculpture in the Expanded Field" as the basis to explore the wildly inclusive breadth and depth of work that the term 'sculpture' can now be applied to within contemporary practice - and the key historical moments that serve as the precedents for what we now understand as both sculpture and installation. Sculpture continues to strike out into new territory, harnessing the medium to confront today's commodity world in its own materials or conjuring visionary new objects and environments like nothing seen before. "Vitamin 3-D" contributes to these international debates on contemporary sculpture and installation while providing an accessible overview and a concise reference book in an innovative design that embodies the materiality of its subject

    Hardcover: 352 pages
    Publisher: Phaidon Press (May 23, 2009)
    Language: English
    ISBN-10: 071484974X
    ISBN-13: 978-0714849744

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  • 60: Innovators Shaping Our Creative Future

    by Lucas Dietrich (Editor)

    Features Josephine Meckseper

    A celebration of sixty innovators in art, design, fashion and other creative fields. Artists, photographers, architects, fashion designers, product designers, street artists, graphic designers: all are helping to redefine our aesthetics, values, and ideas about the future.

    Here, a group of international experts from twelve contemporary fields of creative practice—from fine art and photography to graphic design, architecture, and ecology—have each selected five people who are making significant contributions to the way we experience everyday life and visual culture. The resulting compendium contains hundreds of the most exciting projects and concepts being produced today.

    Each section features an introduction by the editor and richly illustrated profiles of the five innovators. The featured artists and designers include Jonathan Harris and Ben Fry (Graphic Design); Swoon and Space Invader (Street Art); Taryn Simon and Christopher Williams (Photography); Miuccia Prada and Tom Ford (Fashion); and Wendy Seltzer and Natalie Jeremijenko (New Media).

    Hardcover: 408 pages
    Publisher: Thames & Hudson (November 3, 2009)
    Language: English
    ISBN-10: 0500514925
    ISBN-13: 978-0500514924

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  • New York: States of Mind, Art in the City

    by Shaheen Merali (Editor).

    Features Josephine Meckseper.

    New York: States of Mind addresses the current state of art and film as explored by artists living and/or working in New York. This vivid collection of artists' interviews, film synopses, and essays investigates the relevance of postwar artworks to contemporary artistic statements. The films about New York range from the silent era through investigations of post-9/11 realities, spanning mainstream and avant-garde practice. Key works by artists and filmmakers-from Marcel Duchamp to Fred Wilson, from Martin Scorsese to Mira Nair-are interwoven to present a coherent picture of the New York contemporary art world.

    Hardcover: 320 pages
    Publisher: Saqi Books (November 1, 2007)
    Language: English
    ISBN-10: 0863566812
    ISBN-13: 978-0863566813

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  • Biennial de Lyon 2005: Expérience de la durée

    by Nicolas Bourriaud, Jérôme Sans

    Features Josephine Meckseper 

    Hardcover: 350-351 pages
    Publisher: Paris Musées
    Language: English and French
    ISBN-10 : 2-87900-929-4
    ISBN-13 : 978-2-87900-929-2