Being a Vessel
Being a Vessel
In my project Being a Vessel I explore what it means to be influence and inspired. The project is a dedication to the vase and the vessel as forms that have the ability to contain, hold and embody.
In each of the works I am inspired by a constellation of artists, architects, and designers such as Gae Aulenti, Miriam Schapiro and Ray Eames. The works are rooted in my need to carry their creative lives with me beyond the exhibitions or publications I have seen. What started as a way to create personalized reminders of these figures by translating their work in to my own visual language has become an in-depth, evolving research into ideas of artistic ancestry.
Lisa Meixner (born 1983, Stuttgart) studied at Städelschule Frankfurt and at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Her practice evolves by an associative process into installations combining hand-built ceramics, drawings, text and figurative sculptures. She has exhibited in spaces including Ram Galleri, Oslo, Meet Factory, Prague, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Frankfurter Kunstverein and Heidelberger Kunstverein.
