ARTIST STATEMENT

Meike Lohmann makes paintings and drawings. By merging several seemingly incompatible worlds into a new universe, Lohmann absorbs the tradition of remembrance art into daily practice. This personal follow-up and revival of a past tradition is important as an act of meditation.
Her paintings establish a link between the landscape’s reality and that imagined by its conceiver. These works focus on concrete questions that determine our existence. By contesting the division between the realm of memory and the realm of experience, she investigates the dynamics of landscape, including the manipulation of its effects and the limits of spectacle based on our assumptions of what landscape means to us. Rather than presenting a factual reality, an illusion is fabricated to conjure the realms of our imagination.
Her works bear strong political references. The possibility or the dream of the annulment of a (historically or socially) fixed identity is a constant focal point. By exploring the concept of landscape in a nostalgic way, she uses a visual vocabulary that addresses many different social and political issues. The work incorporates time as well as space – a fictional and experiential universe that only emerges bit by bit.
Her collected, altered and own works are being confronted as aesthetically resilient, thematically interrelated material for memory and projection. The possible seems true and the truth exists, but it has many faces, as Hanna Arendt cites from Franz Kafka.

BIOGRAPHY

2013
Artist in Residence fellowship, centrum umeni, Kvilda, Czech Republic

2012

Public purchase by the Bavarian State Painting Collection, Munich, Germany

Artist in Residence fellowship, VCCA Virginia, USA 



2008 - 2011 

Studio Funding Kunsthalle Nuremberg, Germany



2009

Debutant prize of the Bavarian Ministry of State for Science, Research and Art, catalog grant

2007

Art supply grant; Association of Friends of the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg
Honor as „Meisterschueler“ (honorary titel) 



2006

Public purchase by the German Central Bank (Deutsche Bundesbank) Nuremberg



2004

Oskar-Karl-Forster-Scholarship


2004-05
DAAD-Scholarship at the Academy of Fine Arts Budapest, Hungary (Prof. Dora Maurer).



2002 - 2008

Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg (Prof. Peter Angermann), Germany