JOSEPHINE MECKSEPER (b. 1973, Lilienthal, Germany) lives and works in New York.
Although best known for her assemblages in department store display cases or on glass shelves, Josephine Meckseper has expanded her practice to include video, photography, and textiles. Her work exposes how we have become consumers not only of products but also of news and politics. In displays that recall ethnographic museums, her work sets up absurdist juxtapositions that dissect American contemporary culture and its discontents, leveling everything as capitalist by-product.
Meckseper’s work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany (2007); Whitney Museum of American Art (2007); Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow (2007); the Tate Modern, London (2006); the Whitney Biennial (2006); and most recently in Brave New Worlds at the Walker Art Center Minneapolis, MN.
Meckseper is represented by Elizabeth Dee Gallery in New York.