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Shave, 2007,
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March 25, 2016
Melanie Manchot's solo exhibition, People Places Propositions, at Towner Art Gallery, London
Solo show of Melanie Manchot, People Places Propositions at Towner Art Gallery, in London. Opening : Friday 15 April 2016, 6.30 – 8.30pm Exhibition dates : 16.04.2016 – 10.07.2016 Invitation to the opening of People Places Propositions. Melanie Manchot, Out of Bones, 2016, two channel video installation, colour, sound. Melanie Manchot, Twelve, 2015, multi-channel video installation, colour,... ...
January 28, 2014
Melanie Manchot at Oriel Davies Gallery, Wales
Melanie Manchot solo exhibition “Tracer” at Oriel Davies Gallery, Wales. Exhibition launch: Saturday 01.02.2014 at 3pm-5pm Melanie Manchot, Tracer, production still (Jak), 2013 Melanie Manchot, winner of the Oriel Davies Open in 2012 for her captivating films Leap after The Great Ecstasy and Dance (All Night) Paris, returns to the Gallery to present stunning new work. Her... ...
December 2, 2013
Melanie Manchot at MOTINTERNATIONAL, PROJECTS gallery, London
Melanie Manchot at the exhibition “When the Grid Goes Soft” at MOTINTERNATIONAL Projects gallery, London. Curator:Persilia Caton Private View: Friday 13.12.2013 6-8pm Melanie Manchot, Tracer, production still (Jak), 2013 Nathan Bomford and Cedric Bomford have been invited to construct an installation that will function as a sculptural form, as well as a framing device for... ...
April 12, 2011
Chelouche Gallery at Art Brussels, 2011
Chelouche Gallery at Art Brussels, 2011 Booth 3D – 02 Guy Goldstein / Gaston Zvi Ickowicz / Miki Kratsman /Volker Maerz Melanie Manchot / Assaf Rahat / Gal Weinstein Preview & Vernissage 27 April (by invitation only) 28 April – 1 May: 12 am till 7 pm Assaf Rahat, Untitled, 2007, thread and string... ...
October 28, 2010
Festive Opening Weekend | CHELOUCHE ON MAZEH, RE-LOCATION, 28.10.10 – 04.12.10
The festive inaugural exhibition “Re-Location” is celebrating the expansion of Chelouche Gallery and its move to “the Twin House”, a spectacular historical building in central Tel Aviv, designed and built in the 1920s by architect Joseph Berlin. The building is an outstanding, unique example of neo-classical architecture in 1920s Tel Aviv; a specimen of a... ...
October 4, 2010
Melanie Manchot at Impakt Festival 2010
Melanie Manchot at Imapkt Festival 2010, Utrecht, The Netherlands Panorama 5: An Exchange of Gestures and Emotions Saturday, October 16 2010 21:00 Fight – Melanie Manchot (Groot-Brittannië, 2009, 16mm/file, 05:00 min.) Spat – Melanie Manchot (Groot-Brittannië, 2010, 16mm/file, 08:00 min.) Trilogie of Reconstructions, 2009 – 2010 The relationship between documentation and staged situations is central... ...
April 26, 2010
Four Photographers: Group exhibition at Chelouche Gallery, 2010
Four photographers Group exhibition Carmela Garcia / Gaston Zvi Ickowicz / Miki Kratsman / Melanie Manchot 22.05.10 – 01.05.10 Opening: Saturday, 01.05.10 at 12:00 The exhibition “Four Photographers” holds a dialogue between two sorts of looks; the external look which appears in the works of Miki Kratsman and Gaston Zvi Ickowicz, who deal with documentation... ...
March 11, 2010
Chelouche Gallery at Art Brussels 2010
Chelouche Gallery at Art Brussels 2010 Stand 1D-04 Guy Goldstein / Gaston Zvi Ickowicz / Miki Kratsman / Volker Maerz Melanie Manchot / Assaf Rahat / Gal Weinstein 23-26.04.2010 Preview & Vernissage 22 April (by invitation only) Preview 22 April: 12 – 4 pm (by invitation only) Vernissage 22 April: 4 pm – 10 pm (by... ...
December 31, 2009
Melanie Manchot at Whitechapel Gallery, London
Melanie Manchot at Whitechapel Gallery, London Celebration (Cyprus Street) Melanie Manchot, Celebration (Cyprus Street), 2009, still from video work (1) Drawing on traditions of group portraiture at public street parties, Melanie Manchot’s new work explores individual and collective identity through photography and film. For this commission, Manchot has worked with residents of Cyprus Street, east... ...
October 6, 2009
Chelouche Gallery at FIAC 2009
Opening reception Wednesday 21 October, 2009 22-25 October, 13.00 – 21.00 Miki Kratsman, Combat, 2008, digital print, 116×170 cm Miki Kratsman, Wanted #1-5, 2007, digital print, 70×50 cm each Miki Kratsman (b.1959) One of Israel’s highly distinguished photographers, Miki Kratsman has been for over 22 years, infinitely committed to seriously documenting the evolution of the... ...
September 8, 2009
Melanie Manchot at Istanbul Biennale
Doubleportrait (displaced), Serdar + Selma, 2009, c-print, diasec, 34.5 x 28.5 cm each Doubleportrait (displaced) is a new series of photographs based on the tradition of painted doubleportraits. It brings together two people who nominate each other as their counterpart for the portrait, the person they each feel closest to but from whom they are... ...
May 19, 2009
White Night in Tel Aviv
Chelouche Gallery is delighted to participate at the White Night events in Tel Aviv with the exhibition NEIGHBORS 27.05.09, the gallery will be open for visitors 17:00-24:00 Neighbors Group Exhibition Gaston Zvi Ickowicz / Nadav Weissman / Melanie Manchot 3P=3Players / Laurent Mareschal / Tal Shoshan Curator: Nira Itzhaki Neighbors, 2009, general view, Chelouche Gallery,... ...
May 14, 2009
Melanie Manchot at the Thessaloniki Biennale
Melanie Manchot at the Thessaloniki Biennale ART IN TIMES OF UNCERTAINTY The Dream Collector (Mexico City), 2008 The Dream Collector (Mexico City), 2008, five channel video installation, installation view (1), Passage De Retz, Paris The Dream Collector (Mexico City), 2008, five channel video installation, installation view (2), Passage De Retz, Paris The Dream Collector (Mexico... ...
November 25, 2008
Melanie Manchot at Petach Tikva Museum of Art
Melanie Manchot at Petach Tikva Museum of Art INSOMNIA Opening: Saturday, 22.11.08 at 9:00 pm Curator: Marie Shek Melanie Manchot: The Dream Collector (Mexico City), 2008 The Dream Collector (Mexico City), 2008, five channel video installation, installation view (1), Passage De Retz, Paris The Dream Collector (Mexico City), 2008, Still from video work (Ada Raquel... ...
Biography
Melanie Manchot is a foremost and internationally renowned artist who has exhibited since 1993 in museums and galleries across Europe and the USA, among them: Haus am Waldsee in Berlin, The Whitechapel Gallery and The Photographers’ Gallery in London, The Moscow Museum of Modern Art and the 1st Moscow Biennial, Goff & Rosenthal in New-York, the 52nd Venice Biennial and the Thessaloniki Biennale and Istanbul Biennale in 2009.
Curriculum Vitae
1966 Born in Germany
lives and works in London
Education:
1988-1989 New York University, New York
1989-1990 City University, London, England, MA in Arts & Education
1990-1992 Royal College of Art, London, England, MFA in Photography
Teaching Appointments:
1995-2006
Visiting and Part time lectureships at the following institutions (selection)
Goldsmith College, University of London, England
New York University, New York, USA
London College of Printing, England (MA & BA)
Royal College of Art, London, England
Central Saints Martin College of Art & Design,London, England
Middlesex University, London, England
The Architectural Association, London, England
Westminster University, London, England
Kent Institute of Art and Design, England
1993-1997
Lecturer Bournemouth & Poole College of Art and Design, England
Solo Exhibitions (Selection):
1993 Kunsthaus Mettmann, Duesseldorf, Germany
Photofusion Gallery, London, England
1994 Galerie Augustus, Berlin, Germany
Cut Gallery, London, England
Watershed Media Centre, Bristol, England
1995 Posta Restante, Arquivo Fotografico, Lisbon, Portugal
1996 Well Cured, The Cut Gallery, London, England
1997 Mater et Materia, Hartlepool Art Gallery, England
Lifelines, The Royal Photographic Society, Bath, England
1998 OUT, Poster Project, South Kensington, London, England
Lifelines, The Bracknell Art Gallery, South Hill Park & Bonington Galleries,
Nottingham
Lifelines, Galerie Siegert, Basel, Switzerland
Behind the Screen, Public Art Project, York, England
Look at you loving me, Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London, England (plus book
launch)
1999 Look at you loving me, Poster Project, Bucknell University, Pennsylvania, USA
travers, Galerie Siegert, Basel, Switzerland
Galerie Fiebig, Berlin, Germany
2000 Intimate Distance, Ffotogallery, Cardiff, England
2001 Just one kiss?, Rhodes + Mann Gallery, London, England
Art Sway, New Forest, England
Fotogalerie in der Feuerwache, Mannheim, Germany
2002 Cornerhouse Manchester, England
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon, USA
Staedtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
Norwich Arts Center, Norwich, England
Focalpoint Gallery, Southend, England
University of Illinois Art Gallery, USA
2003 Love is a stranger, Leicester City Art Gallery, England
Phoenix Art Leicester, Public Video projection “For a moment a stage”, England
The Tea Building, off site Rhodes + Mann project, London, England
2004 Moscow Girls, Rhodes + Mann Gallery, London, England
2005 Stories from Russia, The Photographers Gallery, London, England
2006 Security, FRED, London, England
Moscow Girls und andere Geschichten, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany
Security, Lolita, Madrid, Spain
2007 Shave, Galerie m Bochum, Germany
Security, Goff + Rosenthal, New York
Shave, Galerie m, Bochum, Germany
Shave, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2010 Celebration (Cyprus Street), Whitechapel Gallery, London
2011 LEAP after The Great Ecstasy, Galerie m, Bochum, Germany
2014 Tracer, Oriel Davies Gallery, Wales.
Group Exhibitions (Selection):
1991 Treading a fine line, Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London, England (plus touring)
1992 Royal College of Art, London, England
1994 The South Bank Photo Show, Royal Festival Hall, London, England
1995 Outpost, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award, National Gallery, London, England
1996 Mauvais Genre, Mais de Reims, Reims, France
John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
We don’t talk about it, Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London, England
1997 Caren Golden Gallery, New York, USA
1998 The Whitechapel Open, London, England
The Ugly Show, Leeds Metropolitan Museum + touring
The Century of the Body, Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal & Musee de l’ Elysee,
Lausanne, Switzerland
Spaete Freiheiten, Historisches Museum Bielefeld, Germany
Museum der Arbeit, Hamburg & Siemens Kulturforum, Muenchen, Germany
2000 Spaete Freiheiten, Schweizerisches Landesmuseum, Zurich, Switzerland
The Insanity Benefit, Vilma Gold, London, England
Mommy Dearest, Gimpel Fils, London, England
Fusion, Rhodes + Mann Gallery, London, England
Crossing Place, Bucknell Art Gallery, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, USA
2001 Something happened, Hasselblad Centre, Goteburg, Sweden
Don’t go to work, Rhodes + Mann Gallery, London, England
Love me/Love me, Galerie La Peripherie, Paris, France
Video Umbrella, Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery, England
Adorn/Equip, Leicester City Art Gallery + Oriel 31, Wales + Bradford Industrial
Museum + Rugby Museum & Art Gallery + London Institute Gallery
2002 Intimacy, The Russel Coates Museum & Art Gallery, Bournmouth, England
Odalisque, Mafuji Gallery, London, England
Welde Kunstpreis, Kunstverein Schwetzingen, Germany
Frauen, Fotogalerie Wien, Austria
St James Group Ltd Photography Prize, Flowers East Gallery, London
Over Time, Rhodes + Mann Gallery, London
2003 Influence, Anxiety and Gratitude, MIT List Visual Art Centre, Boston, USA
Furtive Gaze, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA
Bid, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon, USA
Of Bodies and other Things. German Photography in the 20th Century, City
Gallery, Prague, Chech Republic.
Touring to Deutsches Museum, Berlin/ Museum
Bochum, Germany/House of Photography, Moscow, Russia
Trigger Happy, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England
East Wing, Courtauld Institute, London, England
2004 Naked, The Academy of the West of England, Bristol, England
Moving images, tank.tv, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England
Arte et Naturaleza, Jardin Botanico, Bogota, Colombia
2005 First Moscow Biennale, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
Art Digital. M’Ars Gallery, Mosco, Russia
Detroit International Film + Video Festival, The Museum of New Art, Detroit, USA
After Dark. Film + Video Festival, Custard Factory, Birmingham
Appearance, Whitehall Waterfront, Leeds, England
Anonyme Portraits, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna, Austria
2006 Portraits – The view behind the mask, Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt, Germany
Territories of Freedom, Moscow Centre For the Arts, Russia
1+1=3: Collaborations in Recent British Portraiture, Fotofreo Festival of
Photography, Fremantle, Australia
Gever Gever, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Berlin as impulse – art makes worldHaus am Waldsee, Berlin
SummertimeGalerie m Bochum, Germany
European Media Arts Festival, Kunsthalle Osnabruck, Germany
Summertime, Galerie m, Bochum, Germany
Animalcity, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
Bulgaria Bienale, Shumen, Bulgaria
Rohkunstbau: Three Colours-Blue, Schloss Gross Leuthen, Brandenburg,
Germany
2007 My Vision, Reiss Engelhorn Museum, Mannheim
Eine Frage (nach) der Geste, Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria
The Venice Biennale, New Forest Pavilion
2008 Insomania, Petah-Tikwa Museum of Art
2009 Neighbors, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
The Dreamcollector, The 2nd Thessaloniki Biennale
Journeys with no returns, The Istanbul Biennial
2010 “Good Little Thing”, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
“Four Photographers“, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
2011 Videonale 13, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
2013 When the Grid Goes Soft, MOTINTERNATIONAL Projects gallery, London. Curator:Persilia Caton
Awards & Prizes:
1992 Chesterton Award
Fuji Award
1997 Arts for everyone Award, through the Arts Council of England
1999 British Council Award (Grants to Artists Scheme)
John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award
2001 ifa, Institut fuer Auslandsbeziehungen
2002 Welde Kunstpreis, Germany
St James Group Photography Prize (nomination)
2004 Arts Coucil of England Grant
2005 British Council Travel Grant
Public Collections:
Arts Council Collection, England
Bucknell Art Gallery Collection, USA
DG Bank Collection, Germany
Joel & Sherry Mallin Collection, USA
Mead Collection, Warwickshire University , England
Unilever Collection, England
Staedtische Gallery Wolfsburg, Germany
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, USA
Publications:
Moscow Girls + Other Stories, Haus am Waldsee, exhibition cataloigue, Berlin, Germany, 2006
Art Photography Now, Susan Bright, Thames + Hudson, England, 2005
The Portrait Now, Sandy Nairne, National Portrait Gallery Publications, London, England, 2006
The Photograph as contemporary Art, Charlotte Cotton, Thames + Hudson, England, 2004
Five, The Labyrinth of the Gaze, edited by Gavin Turk, England, 2004
Miser & Now, inaugural issue, Keith Talent Gallery, England, 2004
Von Koerpern und anderen Dingen. Deutsche Fotografie im 20. Jahrhundert. Klaus Honnef & Gabriele Honnef-Harling, Edition Braus, 2003
Der imperfekte Mensch, Boehlau Verlag, Edited by Petra Lutz, Thomas Macho, Gisela Staupe, Heike Zirden, Germany 2003
For a moment, a stage, Public Art Leicester, with a text by Chris Townsend, 2003
Breast, Maura Spiegel & Lithe Sebesta, Workman Publishing Company, USA, 2002
Frauen, Fotogalerie Wien, Fotobuch Nr. 29/2002
Prestel Lexikon der Fotografen, Reinhold Misselbeck, Prestel Verlag, Germany, 2002
Love is a stranger, Monograph, Prestel Verlag, Muenchen, Germany, 2001
The Century of the Body, William Ewing, Thames & Hudson, London 2000
Ist die Photographie am Ende, mdv Mitteldeutscher Verlag 2000
The Saatchi Gift, Hayward Gallery Publishing, 2000
Spaete Freiheiten, Prestel Verlag, Muenchen, Germany, 1999
Love and Desire, William Ewing, Thames & Hudson, England, 1999
The Saatchi Decade, Young British Art from the Saatchi Collection, 1999
Public Sightings, Cornerhouse Publications, England, 1999
look at you loving me, Monograph, Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel, Switzerland, 1998
Seeing Ourselves, Women Self portraiture, Franzes Borzello, Thames & Hudson, 1998
Vile Bodies, Prestel Verlag, Muenchen, Germany, 1998
