Jonathan Meese “DR. TRANS-FORM-ERZ”

David Nolan Gallery

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“All the artists want is to serve democracy, religion, their ego, or their career. … It’s a culture party. … Art will be the savior, not the artist. … I have to serve art. I don’t serve myself.” - Jonathan Meese, 2016

David Nolan Gallery presents DR. TRANS-FORM-ERZ, a survey of nearly 70 drawings from over two decades by Jonathan Meese.

Meese’s work has been the subject of solo museum exhibitions including Revolution at Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover (2002), Képi blanc, nackt at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (2004), Mama Johnny at Deichtorhallen Hamburg (2006), Jonathan Meese: Sculpture at the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami (2010), and MALERMEESE - MEESERMALER at Museum der Moderne Salzburg (2013).

His works are featured in several private and public collections internationally, including Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Hall Art Foundation, New York; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark; Musées de la Ville de Strasbourg, France; Rubell Family Collection, Miami; De La Cruz Collection, Miami; and Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent. Meese was born in 1970 in Tokyo and now lives and works in Berlin and Hamburg.