Josephine Meckseper (born 1964) is a

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artist, active mainly in

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. Her large-scale installations and films have been exhibited in various international biennials and museum shows worldwide.

Life and education

Meckseper studied at

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in Germany from 1986–1990, and completed her MFA at the

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in 1992, where she was influenced by artists Michael Asher and Charles Gaines, filmmaker

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and literary critic and cultural theorist

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Work

Between 1994 and 2000, she was editor of four issues of ''FAT'' magazine. Her questions as a conceptual artist include power politics and political ideas as commodities. In 2007 she spoke in Der Spiegel about the position of women in the art scene. In 2012, her public art project ''Manhattan Oil Project'', commissioned by the

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, was installed on the corner of 46th Street and 8th Avenue in New York City. In 2022, she received a

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References

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