Josephine Meckseper
| Josephine Meckseper | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1964 Lilienthal, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Education | California Institute of the Arts, Berlin University of the Arts |
| Known for | Installation, Sculpture, Painting, Photography, Film |
Josephine Meckseper is a German-born artist based in New York City. Her large-scale installations and films have been exhibited in various international biennials and museum shows worldwide.
Josephine Meckseper grew up in Worpswede, Germany, a utopian artist colony founded at the beginning of the 20th century. Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876–1907) and the writer and poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926), both lived in Worpswede for parts of their life, as did Meckseper’s maternal great-grand-uncle, Heinrich Vogeler (1872–1942). Vogeler was a diverse political artist and architect whose work is situated within the Jugendstil movement, a German offspring of Art Nouveau. Meckseper’s father is the widely known and celebrated German artist Friedrich Meckseper (born 1936).
Josephine Meckseper studied at Berlin University of the Arts in Germany from 1986–1990, and completed her MFA at the California Institute of the Arts in 1992, where she was influenced by artists Michael Asher and Charles Gaines, filmmaker Thom Andersen and literary critic and cultural theorist Sylvère Lotringer.
Meckseper’s time at CalArts coincided with the Gulf War and the Rodney King riots; During this politically-charged period her work reflected upon the actions of the Situationist International and the Angry Brigade.
In 1994, Meckseper founded FAT Magazine, a conceptual magazine project distributed at regular newsstands and in supermarkets, but also exhibited in galleries and museums in the form of wallpaper. It was inspired by political theorist and radical publisher Jean-Paul Marat’s newspaper, published during the French Revolution called L'Ami du peuple and the avant-garde tradition of breaking down barriers between art and life. Since 1994, Meckseper has published four issues: Good and Evil (1994); Surrender (1995/1996); on Fire (1997); and Overflow (1999).
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