Agnes Meyer-Brandis

Agnes Meyer-Brandis (born 1973) is a German installation artist, known for her Moon Goose Colony, an internationally exhibited artwork and film in which (inspired by a story by Francis Godwin) she raises a flock of geese and teaches them to become astronauts.[1][2][3][4]

After briefly studying mineralogy at the RWTH Aachen University, Meyer-Brandis studied sculpture at the Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts in the Netherlands, studied with Czech photographer and conceptual artist Magdalena Jetelová at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in Düsseldorf, Germany, and then earned a master's degree in audio visual media from the Academy of Media Arts Cologne in Cologne, Germany.[5][6]

Meyer-Brandis' other artworks include her Iceberg Probe, which won first prize at transmediale 2006,[6][7] a 2008 installation investigating from an artistic point of view the effects of a total solar eclipse on a zoo in Novosibirsk,[8] and a project in association with the city of Yekaterinburg at the third Moscow Biennale in 2009.[9] In 2014 Meyer-Brandis takes part at exhibition 'The Invisible Force Behind.' at Imai – inter media art institute[10] within Quadriennale Düsseldorf.[11]

References

  1. ^ Davis, Laura (December 14, 2011), "FACT artist takes a gander at the moon; Laura Davis meets the German artist who is training a flock of geese to fly to the moon", Liverpool Daily Post.
  2. ^ "In pictures: Republic of the Moon", BBC News, 19 December 2011.
  3. ^ Markkanen, Tapio (2010), "Challenging C. P. Snow: Active Interaction between Arts, Cultural Heritage and the Universe in Finland" (PDF), Communicating Astronomy with the Public Journal, 9: 22–25, Bibcode:2010CAPJ....9...22M.
  4. ^ Myers, Holly (February 2, 2013), "'Free Enterprise: The Art of Citizen Space Exploration' looks up: The exhibition at the UC Riverside ARTSblock explores the work of artists who've set their sights on the final frontier", Los Angeles Times.
  5. ^ Debatty, Regine (November 7, 2006), "Interview with Agnes Meyer-Brandis", Worldchanging, archived from the original on December 6, 2012.
  6. ^ a b Artist profile at transmediale, retrieved 2013-02-25.
  7. ^ Transmediale 2006 Smile Machines exhibition report, neural.it, March 7, 2006, retrieved 2017-11-07.
  8. ^ Debatty, Regine (January 23, 2009), "Artists, Scientists Study Impact of a Total Solar Eclipse", Worldchanging, archived from the original on December 5, 2012.
  9. ^ Art on Site, 3rd Moscow Biennale, retrieved 2013-02-25.
  10. ^ "Imai - inter media art institute". Archived from the original on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2014-02-16.
  11. ^ "Informationen zu Kunst, Museen und Ausstellungsräumen, Ausstellungen und Galerien in der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf | Art in Düsseldorf".