Ada Mee

Antipoden by Ada Mee, 2015, Lithography

Ada Mee (born 1946, in Thuringia) is a German artist acting in Heidelberg and expressing her art in various techniques (painting, lithography, photography).

Life

Ada Mee was born 1946 in Thuringia and lived in Jena until her escape to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1952. She grew up in Bremen, the Eifel, the Swabian Jura and in Stuttgart, where she graduated from school. She studied architecture in Karlsruhe, finishing as qualified engineer. At present she lives in Heidelberg, is married with one daughter. She is a member of the Bundesverband Bildender Künstlerinnen und Künstler (German association of fine artists), the Heidelberger Forum für Kunst (arts forum of Heidelberg) and the Kunsthöfle Gallery in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt.

Function, quote and work

Hommage an Charlie Hebdo by Ada Mee, 2015, staged photo art
Das Wunder von Puijiang and E-Mann by Ada Mee, 2013 and 2015, staged conceptual art
Der Ring zum Richard-Wagner-Jahr by Ada Mee, 2013, object made of two Neckar-Odenwald sandstone blocks with dummy joints, ring and pedestal made of V2A steel
Conchita, unterwegs zwischen den Geschlechtern by Ada Mee, 2014, bronze, Karl Casper casting
I live my art mutabel, just like spring, summer, autumn and winter. Because of that I do not let myself be woven into something, neither linear, thematic nor conceptual.
Ada Mee, 2001

Painting

With acrylic paint, watercolour, gouache, pencil, Indian ink on wood, card and various paper types.

Staged photo art

She is calling her photo art on canvas as application art – artistic transformation and/or modification of primary structures through painting and/or digital plots. Ada Mee combines painting and her own photographs, forms and designs those on the computer, changes the shapes again, adjusts colours, paints realistic and/or digital until she can identify with her work.

Staged conceptual art

Heavy opposed intellectual worlds collide in her re-enacted stagings, phantasies mixed with realities which often illustrate the shattering truth.

  1. The miracle of Pujiang has deeply touched many people. During his birth on a squat toilet, the small Chinese boy slipped into a waste-pipe and was then saved by firemen in a dramatic rescue mission after several hours. Real event of May 2013
  2. We can see bodies which are embellished and those which are repaired with artificial limbs and artistic suspension struts. On the other hand, bodies cannot be seen anymore. Due to epidemics like ebola or multiple resistant germs they are forced into protective gears, for not paying with their own lives when helping the ill.

Recognition and promotion

Exhibitions

International and supraregional group exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (excerpt)

Further supraregional exhibitions (excerpt)

References

  1. Thekla Greiner: Kunstpreis des Landkreises Alzey-Worms. 2006, S. 1.
  2. Sandra Abend: Schmerz – Bilder vom Menschen. 2008, S. 10, 11.
  3. Iris Frey: Kritische Blicke hinter die virtuelle Parallelwelt. 9 July 2010, Kultur, Cannstatter/Untertürkheimer-Zeitung
  4. Sabrina Schreiner: Notfalls spricht Excalibur ein Machtwort. DIE RHEINFALZ, 16 April 2013.
  5. Prof. Dr. Helge Bathelt, M. A.: Mensch wer bist du? 16 January 2015, Wissenschaftlicher Vortrag, Stuttgart Bad-Cannstatt.
  6. Iris Frey: Die Welt im kritischen Diskurs. 21 January 2015, Kultur, Cannstatter/Untertürkheimer-Zeitung
  7. Caroline Blarr: Der Fall Lance Armstrong. 18 June 2014, Mannheimer Morgen
  8. Dr. Heide Seele: Appell zur Solidarität. 22 October 2012, Feuilleton, RNZ
  9. Iris Frey: Kunst als Wertschöpfung. 12 December 2012, Kultur, Cannstatter/Untertürkheimer-Zeitung
  10. Dr. Heide Seele: Das Katzenvieh löst Gänsehaut aus. 16 June 2010, Feuilleton, RNZ
  11. Dr. Heide Seele: Das Politische und das Private. 12 February 2007, Feuilleton, RNZ
  12. Prof. Dr. Bernd-Wolfgang Lindemann: Die Kunst des Alterns. Urkunde Berlin, 1 September 2006.
  13. Dr. Klaus Peter Böhner: Zeitgenössische bildende Kunst. Salzburg 2004, S. 2.

Further reading

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