Nanne Meyer (born 12 April 1953 in Hamburg), is a German artist. She is one of the first women artists of the postwar generation who works primarily in drawing. Meyer lives and works in Berlin.[1][2]
Papierperspektive, 2010, Color- and Lead-Pencils, Ink on Paper, 70x100cm
Nanne Meyer's artwork is directly linked to her own personal process of seeing, experiencing and reflecting upon the world, mediated through an experimental sensibility.[4]
Already during her studies, in the 1970s, Meyer placed an emphasis on working in the drawing medium, seeking out connections to the activities of thinking and writing. In making small-format booklets as well as extensive series of drawings she investigates forms of interplay between language and image.
Emerging from the gestures of writing and from an associative understanding of forms, Meyer developed the "Wandlung" series of large format graphite drawings, for which she first became recognized. The German term "Wandlung" or "Transformation", represents a principle of the process-based, the transformative, the fleeting, the unstable, which recurs throughout Meyer's body of work. These are generally divided into thematically linked work-groups made up of small-format series, large-format drawings, as well as artist books and pamphlets.
Books
Since 1986, a central aspect of Nanne Meyer's work has been the making of yearbooks. They contain her archive, document her changing drawing repertoire, her range of forms, reflections from the everyday and key drawings for development in following series of work. To date 24 books with ca. 8500 drawings have been made. Yearbook 16 (September 2000 – March 2002) was published in facsimile in 2003 with support of the Kunstfonds Bonn (Gimlet Verlag Köln).[5][6]
Most recent work
Taking as point of departure the fleeting and metaphoric aspect of clouds and the views out of airplane windows, since 2000 Meyer has been investigating specific aspects of
perceptual/spatial experiences. In the works titled "Papierperspektive" ("Paper Perspectives"), various simultaneous points of view and the abstraction of seeing are formulated by means of lines and superimposed with graphic conventions drawn from meteorology and cartography. Emergent are dynamic, floating spaces with multiple perspectives which do not allow the gaze to come to rest. For the artist these drawings are both perceptual reflections of space as well as "thinking conduits".[7] Nanne Meyer's work, including further images not included in this article, is documented on the artist's Official website.
Exhibitions
Selected solo shows
1984
Förderkoje Art Cologne, Köln, Petersen Galerie, Berlin
1989
Kunsthalle Nürnberg
1990
Art Frankfurt, Petersen Galerie, Berlin
Goethe Institut, Rotterdam
Städtische Galerie, Lüdenscheid
1991
Kunstverein Marburg
1992
Kulturforum Alte Post, Neuss
Städtische Galerie, Delmenhorst
1999
Kunstverein, Eislingen
Städtische Galerie, Tuttlingen
1997
Kunstmuseum, Bonn, "Zeichnung heute I" (with Silvia Bächli and Camill Leberer)
Kunstverein Bochum
1998
Kunstverein Siegen
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, München
1999
Art forum Berlin, Galerie & Edition Marlene Frei, Zürich
