Anke Mila Menck
Black field / C, Installation, cardboard, 140×200×2,5 cm, 2009
Sculpture, Fiberboard, 2 parts, each 90×180×1,9 cm, 2008
Anke Mila Menck’s Black Field is the result of an interest in rough cardboard material and the observation that the cardboard’s edges have a shiny surface. As the title suggests, this work is to be presented on the floor. Arranged precisely, thousands of handmade, slender strips of cardboard build up a rectangle which, despite its precise form, has an internal liveliness. Cutting the strips took days, a process which developed a rather contemplative rhythm. The shape of the circle ring is a constant motif in the work of the artist, she always uses fibreboard which she polishes and covers with varnish. Her work C consists of two parts: a ring with a 1.8 meter diameter is cut into two halves, then varnished in violet with the edges contrasting in bright red. Arranged to offset one another, the pieces are mounted on the wall. Within the context of the exhibition, the obvious division of two parts is additionally significant, as is the accentuation of the raw edges/borders.
Anke Mila Menck
Born in 1973 in Ludwigshafen / Rhein, Germany.
Lives and works in Berlin.
Education:
1993–98 Study at the Academy of Arts Saarbrücken,
Honor Student of Christina Kubisch
Selected solo exhibitions:
2009 Black Field, UP ART, Neustadt (+ Geka Heinke) ›››
ghi, Kunstverein Viernheim ››› 220h, Diehl Projects,
Berlin ››› eins, Kunstverein Bochum 2008 obenunten,
Galerie 18m, Berlin (with Zuzanna Skiba) 2007 Hülle
und Fülle, Stedefreund, Berlin (with Anne Vorbeck)
2006 Zucker im Lack, Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken
2004 3027, Galerie 35, Berlin 2003 Garden, Institut
für aktuelle Kunst Saarlouis 2002 Landpartie,
Galerie Januar, Bochum
Selected group exhibitions:
2008 km 500, Kunsthalle Mainz ››› Kemnade klingt,
Kunstverein Bochum ››› Emy-Roeder-Preis, Kunstverein
Ludwigshafen 2007 Die Macht des Dinglichen –
Skulptur heute!, Georg-Kolbe-Museum Berlin ››› Gamle
mænd med yngre kvinder, Galleri Weinberger
Copenhagen, Denmark ››› Poolposition, Stedefreund,
Berlin ››› Departure Arrival, Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken
2003 Emy-Roeder-Preis, Kunstverein Ludwigshafen
2002 Fernsucht, 167c Berlin 1999 Junge Akademie
in der Galerie Buch, Akademie der Künste Berlin
Grants
2007 Residency / Exhibition at Schloss Wiepersdorf
