Jocelyn Meyer

Jocelyn Meyer was born in Kirchen (Germany) in 1977 and studied at the Staatliche Kunstakademie (State Art Academy) in Düsseldorf, becoming “Meisterschülerin” (Master Disciple) of Franz Müller in 1999

From 2002 to 2008, Meyer taught sculpture at the University of Duisburg-Essen, and from 2009 to 2013 painting at the Braunschweig Academy. She has received a large number of awards, including the “Hegel Scholarship” of the “Humb Prizen” in 2007, the “Förderpreis der Stadt Düsseldorf” in 2014 and the “Tremen-Scholarship” of the Federal State of Lower Saxony. She now lives and works in Berlin and is represented by Hannah Schultz Gallery.
Meyer’s work in different media is, for a large part, characterized by the fascination of the transitory state of the human body, both in materials used and in the nature of her performances and installations. She has made installations of edible materials and also shaped sculptures out of rubber. The “new flesh” character of ther sculptures and installations does not only point at the transitoriness of the human body but also sets her work in the context of venerable traditions.
She also casts sculptures in German Silver and makes large wall drawings. Furthermore, she works in traditional media like watercolours, acrylic and crayon by means of which she is creating distributive, all-over-like compositions of guts, skins, or damaged organs.