About The Artist

Melanie Mertens (*based in Cologne) is an aspiring artist and was selected by ARTAVITA to join the Artexpo New York 18. - 21. November 2021. She develops painting in terms of form, expression and dramaturgy as an artistic philosopher. She plays with inner and outer consciousness with high intensity and uses paining as a sensitive medium. The composition of her work creates a space of tension. The first impression offers a complex use of colour and composition, leading to inner spaces, opposites and mysteries. Is it about illusion or vision? Or is it about a play of composition and the language of images? With structured and constructed scenes and imagery her works range between the individual and collective, as well as between history and visions of future: aspects of society are connecting themselves with archetypes. Quote artist: “ ..if you can´t say anything anymore and everything is closing in front of you, art can be a promise and a sign. If you´ve made something visible it is all about its` reflection and what it creates in you. Your correspondence with the image will give you the answers. That is the eternal cycle of art…” Contact: melanie-mertens@freenet.de Instagram mertensart Website https.//melanie-mertens.wixsite.com/melanie-mertens-art Her works of art can be viewed internationally and in museums. SOLO /COLLABORATION-EXHIBITIONS/ART-FAIRS (selection) - International Contemporary Art Fair "Luxembourg Art Fair 2020" 18. to 20.09.2020, Luxembourg, https://www.art3f.fr/index.php/de/home-luxembourg, Collaboration with VAN GOGH Art Gallery, Madrid Link: www.vangoghartgallery.es - Artbox Projekt Zürich 2.0, 20.-24.08.2020, Link: https://www.artboxprojects.com/zuerich-2-de -Zwei Gesichter des Menschen, Kurfürstliches Gärtnerhaus, Museum für moderne Kunst in Bonn, 11.07.2020 - 30.07.2020, Link: www.kuenstlerforum-bonn.de/as_kuefuerstliche_gaertnerhaus.html - Spiegelungen, Kurfürstliches Gärtnerhaus, Museum für moderne Kunst in Bonn, Nordrhein- Westfalen, 20.06.2020 - 09.07.2020, Link: www.kuenstlerforum- bonn.de/as_kuefuerstliche_gaertnerhaus.html - silence, Huis Der Zotheit, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 03.11. - 28,11,2019, Link: www.huisderzotheid.nl, 2019 - Galerie Gerritse, 05.05. - 30.06.2019, Middelburg, Netherlands, together with Kees Wijker (kinetic objects), 2019, Link: www.galeriegerritse.nl - Galerie Marlies Krug, Altenkirchen, 2016, Link: www.marlies-krug.de GROUP (selection) - Stille Post, Cubus-Kunsthalle Duisburg, Museum für moderne Kunst in Duisburg, 26.09.2020-27.09.2020, Link: www.cubus-kunsthalle.de - Rispondenze artistiche ARTtime Galleria Udine, Italy, August 2020 Link: www.arttimeundine.net, www.arttimeinsight.net - Evolution of Evolution - Positionen zeitgenössischer Kunst , Wissenschaftszentrum Bonn, 12.03.2020 – 02.07.2020, Link: www.wissenschaftszentrum-bonn.de - Stille Post, Kulturbunker Köln, Germany, Link:www.kulturbunker-muelheim.de, 2019 - AbWESENheiten 01. - 22.09.2019, Project with Sabine Hartert and Martine Metzing-Peyre, Villa Heros, Remagen, Germany, Link: www.kuefo-remagen.de - Stichting KunstWerkt, Schiedam, Netherlands, Curators: Harry Schumacher and Sasha Zuidam, "evolution of evoultion", 17.03. – 14.04.2019, Link:stichtingkunstwerkt.nl - Kunstspoor Noord-Beveland, Netherlands, Artist in Residence, August 2018, Info: www.kunstspoor.nl - Open Expo, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, 6T/M 9 September 2018 Link: www.stedelijkmuseumschiedam.nl - Guestartist, Artisttalk, Open Studios Borgerstraat, Rotterdam, accompanying event of the Art Fair Rotterdam 2017