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Isa Melsheimer (born September 19, 1968, in Neuss) [1] is a German sculptor, object and installation artist, painter and university lecturer. [2]
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Isa Melsheimer (born September 19, 1968, in Neuss) [1] is a German sculptor, object and installation artist, painter and university lecturer. [2]
Isa Melsheimer grew up on a vineyard in Reil on the Moselle. From 1991 to 1997, she studied painting at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin (now Berlin University of the Arts) in the Georg Baselitz master class. [3]
After a substitute semester in Björn Dahlem's class at the Bauhaus University Weimar and a guest professorship for experimental drawing at the Braunschweig University of Art, she has been Professor of Ceramics in the Fine Arts program at the Muthesisus Academy of Fine Arts in Kiel since the winter semester 2022.
Isa Melsheimer lives and works in Berlin.
In her artistic work, Isa Melsheimer deals with the built environment and explores the conditions for its design and adjustment. She is interested in the history of the architectural styles – especially the legacy of Modernism and the 1950s-70s examples of concrete architecture – as well as the influence of humans on nature. One focus of her work is on surreal, often fragile living landscapes and improvised dwellings. [4]
Melsheimer's site-specific installations playfully puzzle architectural and urban spaces by mixing subjective memories, current events, symbols, and metaphors. In exhibitions, she displays spatial tension made of strings inspired by shell structures, for example. [5]
Another series of works are gouaches in which architectural and design icons are quoted and, together with natural motifs (animals, plants), mutate into fantastic spaces. [6]
Isa Melsheimer works with simple materials such as ceramics, concrete, glass, metal, wood, but also with yarn and fabric, plants, furnishings, and everyday objects. [7]
Works by Isa Melsheimer are held in the following public collections:
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