isabell.alexandra.m@gmail.com
Isabell Alexandra Meldner (*1995, Berlin) studies at the Dresden University of Fine Arts in the class of Susan Philipsz and the class of Nicole Vögele. She lives and works between Prague, Dresden, and Berlin. In 2022, she received the Artist Advocate Stipend from the Dresden State Art Collection and was awarded the Caspar-David-Friedrich-Prize in 2023.
In her artistic work, she explores the emotional affects of spaces, our perception of time, in-betweenness and how something is defined out of the relation to another. Responding to the site or space, her focus lies in the relation between individual works in various media, and their installation context. By conceiving cinematic situations, she curates transitory sites that appear ordinary and familiar, yet simultaneously alienating. Immersed in a contemplative atmosphere, these in-between spaces hold an associative openness and evocative stillness.
Through a choreography of elements and their inherent temporalities, spaces become time-based experiences and unfold in their duration. Time and temporality are used as material. Subtle spatial interventions generate liminal spaces where the distinction between the space and the exhibited works dissolves. Working across a variety of media, she considers the medium integral to each work, which may appear as a thought image and resembles gestures of emptying, distancing, or withdrawing. Emptiness emerges as open potential, triggering the projective dimension of our imagination.
In an age of global mobility, migration, and a fast-paced society, she poetically reflects on notions of home, dislocation, and absence shaped by distance. Inspired by everyday phenomena and theoretical research, she investigates how our relation to time becomes increasingly artificial and structures our lived experience.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
SOLO SHOWS
2023
_ That Space is Made of Time, installation at Residenzschloss, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden.
_ Time Takes too Long to Last at Caspar-David-Friedrich-Zentrum, Greifswald.
2021
_ Bright Tomorrows, Amplifies Insides at the gimp, Berlin.
2017
_ What I See (for OstravaPhotoFestival) at Díra v Provozu, Ostrava.
_ Collective Intersubjectivity - Hungry German Youth at Hidden Gallery, Prague.
GROUP SHOWS
2025
_ (July) Diploma show, Oktogon, Dresden.
_ Real eyes realise real lies, Galerie Kunst der Zeit, HfBK Dresden.
2024
_ Dodging the Curve, with Friedrich Herz, Necessaire Space, Vienna.
_ Day in, day out, with Class Philipsz, at Tonspur Passage, Museumsquartier, Vienna.
_ Somewhere it is Night with Leon Michel, Laura Urbanski, Lindiwe Matshikiza, at Galerie ursula Walter, Dresden.
_ Mov.ing in, Galerie Ursula Walter, Dresden.
_ Radio International with Class Philipsz, Glasgow International, Glasgow.
_ Existenz Kapitel 3, Oktogon, Dresden.
_ Romantisch gesehen, Felix Jud & Co, Hamburg.
_ Painting (on site), with Alban Rosenberger and Ivy Tanit, HfBK Dresden.
_ Solar Anus / High Water, group show (co-curated with Mire Lee), HfBK Dresden.
2023
_ Compiling Caspar David, Axel Obiger, Berlin.
_ I can see clearly now the rain is gone. Suddenly, everything makes sense. Not today. with Stefanie Hollerbach and Hanne Jannasch for Senatssaal, HfBK Dresden.
_ Kunst, group show, Weisse Gasse 8, Dresden.
2022
_ Radio International at Manifesta14, Prishtina.
_ How thick is the layer of butter on your bread? with Hanne Jannasch at Exhibit Studio, Vienna.
_ Memories see us, group exhibition at the Hall of the Art Academy of Latvia, Riga.
2021
_ The Sixths Sense, exhibition by Klasse Philipsz at Brühlsche Terasse, HfBK Dresden.
_ Asociace Prostoru: Five Ways/ Pět cest, at Galerie Vltavská, initiated by Umění pro město (GHMP), Prague.
2020
_ Along Buried Trails - Re-searching our environment, collective performance and group exhibition at Museum Humanum, Kulturbrücke, Fratres.
_ Come in - look out, group show at Fotoforum Dresden.
_ Nature, nature let me see, sometimes your trees just hypnotise me, with Nicolas Prokop, Hugo Chmelař, Vojtěch Hlaváček and Noemi Liborova, by Asociace Prsotoru at Cibulka Park, Prague.
2019
_ Daydreaming in Vacuum (group show with Nicolas Prokop, Serhij Ďakiv, OFFOMO) at Invalidovna, Prague.
2016
_ What I see (group exhibition at DüsseldorfPhotoWeekend2016), Haus der Universität, Düsseldorf.
EDUCATION & SCHOLARSHIPS
2023 Caspar-David-Friedrich Award
2022-2023 Scholarship ‘The Artist Advocat’ by Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden.
since 2019 Fine Arts, Dresden University of Fine Arts Dresden in the class of Susan Philipsz.
2020- 2021 Studio of Sculpture by Dominik Lang and Isabela Grosseová at Academy of Arts, Architecture & Design, Prague.
2017- 2019 Master Studies, Charles University, Prague.
2017- 2018 Scholarship from Česko-německý fond budoucnosti
2017 Bachelor of Arts (Art History, German Language and Literature), University of Cologne.
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