Timothy Taylor Gallery

Over the past ten years, the New York based artist has developed a practice, which melds the aesthetic language of modernism with a profound critique of consumerism. Employing sculpture, video, installation, painting and photography, she confronts the Western desire for instant gratification with the erosion of personal political agency. Meckseperʼs project is to challenge ingrained perspectives and habits of seeing by employing a proxy retail aesthetic to expose the cracks and contradictions of contemporary living.

Josephine Meckseper was born in Lilienthal, Germany and lives and works in New York. She received her MFA from Cal Arts in 1992 and prior to that studied at Hochschule der Künste, Berlin (1986-90). Meckseper’s work will be included in Gestamtkunstwerk: New Art from Germany at the Saatchi Gallery, London this autumn. She has previously exhibited in galleries and institutions including The FLAG Art Foundation, New York (2011); migros museum für gegenwartskunst, Zurich (2009); Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham (2009); Indianapolis Museum of Art (2009); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2008); Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart (2007) and Tate Modern, London (2006). She has been included in two Whitney Biennials (2006 & 2010) and featured in this year’s Sharjah Biennial. Josephine Meckseper’s work is held in private and public collections worldwide including those of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York; Hammer Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles; The Saatchi Gallery, London; migros museum für gegenwartskunst, Zurich and Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany.

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