Ada Mee (born 1946) is a German artist based in Heidelberg. She works across various mediums, including painting, lithography, and photography.

Life

Ada Mee was born 1946 in Thuringia and lived in Jena until her escape to the Germany, Federal Republic of Germany in 1952. She grew up in Bremen, the Eifel, the Swabian Jura, and in Stuttgart, where she graduated from school. She studied architecture in Karlsruhe, finishing as a qualified engineer. She currently lives in Heidelberg and is married with one daughter.

Career

Mee is a member of the Bundesverband Bildender Künstlerinnen und Künstler (German Association of Fine Artists), the Heidelberger Forum für Kunst (Arts Forum of Heidelberg) and the Kunsthöfle Gallery in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt.

Painting

Mee's materials include acrylic paint, watercolour, gouache, pencil, Indian ink on wood, card and various paper types.

Staged photo art

Mee refers to her photo art on canvas as "application art," which involves the artistic transformation and/or modification of primary structures through painting and/or digital plots. In her creative process, Ada Mee combines painting with her own photographs, manipulating forms and designs on the computer. She makes changes to the shapes, adjusts colors, and paints realistically and/or digitally until she feels a personal connection with her work.

Staged conceptual art

Heavy opposed intellectual worlds collide in her re-enacted stagings, fantasies mixed with realities which often illustrate the shattering truth. One example is ''Das Wunder von Puijang (''en: ''The Wonder of Puijang)'' which shows an infant born while the mother was squatting over a toilet, who slipped into a waste tube and was saved.

Recognition and awards

* Nominated for the 29th Mainz Art Prize, Eisenturm * 2019: Nominated for the Perron Art Prize, Frankenthal * 2013: election fo
HEISE Kunstpreis
2014 * 2009: promotion by Stiftungen Landesbank-Baden-Württemberg, ''Catalogue: Lithographien vom Stein'' * 2008: promotion by Stiftungen Landesbank-Baden-Württemberg, ''Catalogue: Maroc mon amour. 1996, Malerei zur Ausstellung im Presseclub Bonn'' * 2006: professional recognition “UnFAIRblümt“, Haus der Demokratie und Menschenrechte, Berlin * 2006: art prize of the county Alzey-Worms * 2005: election for the graphical calendar by Johann Kasper Zeus, 2006, city of Kronach

Exhibitions

International and supraregional group exhibitions

* 1993: Everarts gallery, Paris * 1996: Presseclub Bonn, ''Maroc mon amour'' * 2002, 1998: Foire Internationale Lac Luxembourg, Salon de Printemps, Letzeburger Artisten Center * 2011, 2008, 2006, 2004, 1999
Wilhelm–Fabry–Museum Hilden
* 2013, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000: Mini Print International of Cadaqués, Mini Print International of Cadaques, Spain * 2000: City Museum Halle an der Saale, ''Halle und das Salz der Erde'' * 2000: City Museum Pforzheim, ''Drogen'' * 2014, 2006, 2002: Miniatur International Fürstenwalde, ''Spree'' * 2004: international Licher photography prize * 2005: Women Museum Bonn * 2005: Museum van Bommeln van Dam, Venlo, Niederlande * 2015, 2007, 2005: Kunstforum Rheinbach '99 e. V., ''Kunst auf dem Campus'' * 2007: Castle Museum city of Schwarzenberg, ''art und figura'' * 2008: Third Beijing International Art Biennale China, Peking * 2008: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main, ''Senckenberg-Brunnen'' * 2012: Museum Zündorfer Wehrturm, Cologne * 2014, 2013, 2012, 2009: Marler Kunststern, Marl * 2014, 2013
Internationale Biennale Hamburg

Solo exhibitions (excerpt)

* 1991: Villa Meixner Brühl, collection of the KulturForums Europa, ''Schicksale'' * 1992: town hall Heilbronn, ''Steindrucke'' * 1993: Mettnau-Radolfzell, ''Menschen – Landschaften'' * 1997: Adelfinger Gallery, Lampertheim, ''Gemalt-Gedruckt-Geformt'' * 1999: Cas Karlsruhe, ''Positiv'' * 2007
Bad Bergzaberner KunstSaison
* 2010: Galerie Kunsthöfle, Stuttgart, ''code 08-21'' * 2011: 6th Bergzabener KunstSaison at the castle of the dukes of Zweibrücken * 2013: Museum für ostdeutsche und osteuropäische Kunst, Sank Julian * 2015: Galerie Kunsthöfle, Stuttgart, ''Mensch wer bist du?''

Further supraregional exhibitions (excerpt)

* 2015: ''Inszenierung der Realität'', Heidelberger Forum für Kunst * 2015: ''Sportlich'', Heidelberger Forum für Kunst * 2014: Illustrierte Gedichte von Christian-Morgenstern, Werder (Havel) * 2013: ''Wellen'', QQTec, Hilden * 2013: ''Heimat'', Heise-Kunstpreis-Kalender 2014, alte Feuerwache, Dessau * 2012: ''genug ist genug'', Heidelberger Forum für Kunst * 2012: ''Wertschöpfung'', Galerie Kunsthöfle, Stuttgart * 2010: ''Nachts'', Heidelberger Forum für Kunst * 2009: ''Visionen'', 10. Kunstkreuz Berlin-Kreuzberg * 2008: ''Die Freiheit, die ich meine'', 9. KunstKreuz Berlin-Friedrichshain * 2008: ''SpielArt'', Landesausstellung des Bundesverbandes Bildender Künstler * 2008: ''Zirkus'', VIII. Jesteburger Kunstwoche * 2008: Im Namen der Lippischen Rose, Kunst- und Designpreis * 2007: ''Überzeichnet'', Heidelberger Forum für Kunst * 2006: ''Schaufenster à la Art'', Kunstpreis des Landkreises Alzey-Worms * 2006: ''Die Kunst des Alterns'', Caritas Altenhilfe, Berlin * 2006: ''Bewegung, Dynamik und Kraft'', Kunstpreis Wesseling * 2006: ''wie die sachen oft querre gehen'', Kunstpreis der Stadt Augsburg * 2005: Johann Kasper Zeus-Kalender 2006, Kronach * 2005: ''Nibelungenlied'', AmtsHausGalerie, Stadt Freudenberg * 2004: ''Grenzfälle'', VI. Kunstwoche Jesteburg * 2004: ''Zeitgenössische bildende Kunst'', SalzburgDr. Klaus Peter Böhner: ''Zeitgenössische bildende Kunst.'' Salzburg 2004, S. 2. * 2002: ''Reaktion-Bilder'', Hermann Hesse Calw International * 2002: Literarischer Simrock-Freiligrath-Weg, Bad Honnef * 2001: Welde Galerie, Schwetzingen * 2001: ''Kunst im Burgrafiat'', Stadt Alzey * 2000: ''Jubiläumsbilder'', Galerie der Sparkasse Karlsruhe * 2000: ''Sichtweisen'', Öhringer Schloss, Große Kreisstadt Öhringen * 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2007: Heidelberger Forum für Kunst

References

External links

Website Ada Mee