Eric Meier
Anhaltende Dauerzustände
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Two Solo Shows by Marion Fink & Eric Meier
Opening Friday, April 28th 2023 at 17h00
Exhibition: Saturday, April 29th - Sunday, June 11th 2023
KURFÜRSTENSTRASSE 142, 10785 BERLIN
In each show, both Fink and Meier explore the emotions and struggles that we as a society struggle with
as we grow and shift through time. For Fink, this exploration takes place in the inner individual as each
person wrestles with the hidden truths that shape their world. For Meier, this conflict is a reflection of
broader societal shifts in civilization as it cracks to reveal the dehumanizing neglect under the surface,
leading to division, extremism and breakdown within society.
ERIC MEIER
Im Stein
Eric Meiers' (*1989 in East Berlin, GDR, grew up in Frankfurt an der Oder) photographs, sculptures and
video works show urban spaces and fragments in which signs of post-socialist transformation and the loss
of social utopia have inscribed themselves. The photographs become indicators of change that bear
witness to both individual mythologies and collective recording or over-forming. Man is mostly absent,
but marked by his civilisational traces, ruptures and cracks. Meier's rhetoric is multi-layered, but does not
operate covertly. Themes of failure, loss, or social identity are inherent in the work. He exposes the status
quo of dealing with urban as well as media public spaces, where dehumanization and neglect is often a
repressed part of reality. Meier studied photography at the academy of visual arts in Leipzig where he
graduated in 2018 and sculpture at the university of the arts in Berlin. In 2019 he was Meisterschüler with
Prof. Heidi Specker. Meier lives and works in Berlin.
Recent exhibitions
2023 Tropical Islands, After the butcher, Berlin
2022 Mit der Tür ins Haus fallen, Neues Museum Nuremberg
2022 Fermentieren: Perspektiven auf “Osten”, GRASSI Museum für Völkerkunde, Leipzig
2022 Flaschen & Geister, MOUNTAINS, Berlin
2022 identity not proven, New Acquisitions for the Federal Art Collection, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn
2022 Parallel Narratives, SETAREH, Berlin
2021 ... oder kann das weg? Fallstudien zur Nachwende, nGbK Berlin
2021 Von der schenkenden Tugend, Zarinbal Khoshbakht, Cologne
2021 Reelleti Scheck, St.-Marien-Kirche, Frankfurt an der Oder
2021 META MODELL, Die Möglichkeit einer Insel, Berlin
2020 Don’t worry, there will be more problems, fffriedrich, Frankfurt am Main
2019 ICI ET LÀ BAS, Goethe Institut Paris, Paris, France
2019 DIKTAT, Valletta Contemporary, Valletta, Malta
2018 Zweifel, Collection Hoffmann, Berlin
2018 Requiem for a failed state, Halle 14 - Center for Contemporary Art, Leipzig
Christy Woody