CV

CV OVERVIEW


1999	Werbund Werkstatt, then move to the Netherlands
1999–2003	Art studies, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam.
	2001 Ida-Wolff-Förderpreis, Fine Arts. Fürth
2002–2008	Study of Philosophy, Specialisation in Language Philosophy, Universiteit van Amsterdam
	2003 BA Fine Arts, Rietveld-Academy-Award
	2003 HIER, permanent public installation, Nuremberg
2004–2005	Postgraduate Research, Resident at Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam
2006–2007	work stipend, Mondriaan Fonds, Amsterdam
2005–2009	teaching at Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam. Departments: Foundation Year, Image & Language
2007	guest professor Merz Akademie, Stuttgart. Department: Communication design
2009	Research stipend, Cultuurfondsbeurs, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Amsterdam
since 2009	guest teacher at Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
2009	artist-in-residence, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2010	Move to Switzerland
2010	research stipend, Fonds voor beeldende kunsten/Mondriaan Fonds, Amsterdam.
2010, 2012	artist residencies in Finland
2011	teaching at Universiteit van Amsterdam, MA Artistic Research
2012/2014	Commission for Euro-coins, Dutch Ministry of Finance, Den Haag
2013	guest professor EURAC European Academy Bozen, and at Goldsmiths University London
2014	artist residency in Iceland
2014	PhD, dissertation Ludwig Wittgenstein & Gertrude Stein – Meeting in Language. Planetary Collegium. Supervisor: Antonio Caronia. NABA, IT & University of Plymouth, UK
2014	teaching at Amsterdam School of the Arts, and Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe
since 2014	teaching at the University of the Arts Bern. BA Fine Arts, MA Contemporary Arts Practice, Y-Institut.
2016	Swiss Design Award BAK Die Schönsten Schweizer Bücher, 2016 for Taxidermy for Language Animals, designed by Urs Lehni, Rollo Press
	teaching at Design Dessau. Hochschule Anhalt. Department: MA Integrated Design
2018	teaching at the University of Amsterdam, Art History Department, and at the Universiteit Islands, Philosophy & Art school Reykjavik, Iceland
2019	MA supervisor Universiteit van Amsterdam, MA Philosophy
2020	Public lectures and panels at Staedelschule Frankfurt, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Haus der Generationen Bern, Kunsthalle Bern, Falmouth University, Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst and others
2021	MA supervisor Aalto University Helsinki
	Presentations at Museum Folkwang Essen, Deutsche Sebald Gesellschaft, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ästhetik Conference Zürich, edition taberna kritika
	Publication Grant and Literature Grant by Kanton Bern, Stadt Bern, and Burgergemeinde Bern. Covid-19 work stipend by Stadt Zürich
2021	Conference Host SYMPOSIUM ON ASPECT CHANGE, University of the Arts Bern, teaching at HSLU Luzern
2022	Atlas of Aspect Change, Zürich: Rollo Press
	Professorship at University of the Arts Bern HKB, Berner Fachhochschule
2023	Alpha Bravo Charlie, Salzburg: Jung und Jung
	Literature Award "Weiterschreiben", Stadt Bern
	Literature Grant 'Werkjahr', Kanton Zürich
	Franz-Tumler-Literaturpreis, Laas, IT
	Shortlist Rauriser Literaturpreis, A
2024	TEDx Talk Bratislava
	Literature Grant Pro Helvetia Werkjahr, CH
	Do Re Mi Fa So, Roman, Jung und Jung, Salzburg
	Award for Do Re Mi Fa So by Stadt Zürich Kultur











































PUBLICATIONS LITERATURE
2024	Do Re Mi Fa So, Jung und Jung, Salzburg
2023	Alpha Bravo Charlie, Jung und Jung, Salzburg



ART& RESEARCH
2023	Zwischen Disziplinen, Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg
2022	Atlas of Aspect Change. Zürich: Rollo Press
2021	Ludwig und Gertrude. Egon Stemle & Tine Melzer, edition taberna kritia, Bern, CH.
2020	Blumen sind geil. Markus Kummer & Tine Melzer, The Green Box, Berlin 2020, DE.
2019	Das geteilte Unvermögen. Stefan Sulzer & Tine Melzer. Materialsammlung: Zürich. ISBN 9783 907251 003
2018	Geschlossene Gesellschaft. Zürich: A–Z. ISBN 978-3-033-06976-3
2018	Bleisulfid / Lead Sulphide. By Tine Melzer & Markus Kummer. A Published Event for Lost Rocks (2017–21) invited by Justy Phillips and Margaret Woodward. English (ISBN 978-0-6482557-2-7) and german (ISBN 978-0-6482557-3-4). soft cover, 96 pages.
2016	Taxidermy for Language-Animals, designed by Urs Lehni, Zürich: Rollo Press
2014	‘Ludwig Wittgenstein & Gertrude Stein – Meeting In Language’. PhD, PEARL Database, University of Plymouth, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Planetary Collegium, M-Node
2008	Inventory, in collaboration with Kaspar Andreasen, Haarlem/Rotterdam: Johan Deumens Gallery
2008	Documents 4: Tine Melzer – Dialog. Amsterdam: Rijksakademie van beeldende Kunsten.
ARTISTS BOOKS
2017	BAUSATZ, A–Z, Zürich/St.Gallen, CH.
2017	Pearls before Swine, A–Z, Zürich/Mechelen, CH.
2016	Kunststoffe, A–Z, Zürich/Dessau, CH/DE.
2016	Was ich an Dir nicht mag, A–Z, Zürich, CH.
2016	Sprache ist Praxis, A–Z, From Missouri, Zürich, CH.
2013	Ludwig & Gertrude, Shared Vocabulary, with Egon W. Stemle, A–Z, Zürich/Bolzano, CH/IT.
2012	Redewendungen, with Simone Koller, Lesen Üben! Ida Verein für Kultur, Bibliothek Züst, St.Anton/Zürich, CH.
2006	Thing Ding Chose Cosa, with Kasper Andreasen, Haarlem, NL. ISBN 978-90-73974-07-4
2005	The Grass is Greener on the Other Side, with Kasper Andreasen.
2005	I drew some names from a hat, From Missouri, Amsterdam, NL.
2004	Theresa, From Missouri, Amsterdam, NL.
2004	The Twins Look Alike, From Missouri, Amsterdam, NL.


STIPENDS & AWARDS
2024	Pro Helvetia, Kreationsbeitrag Literatur
2023	Franz-Tumler Literaturpreis, Laas, IT
2023	Literature Grant "Werkbeitrag Literatur", Kanton Zürich
2023	Literature Award "Weiterschreiben", Stadt Bern
2021	Funding by Bugergemeinde Bern for "Atlas of Aspect Change"
2021	Funding by Stadt and Kultur Kanton Bern for Visual Art / Publishing
2021	Funding by Stadt and Kultur Kanton Bern for Literature
2019	Funding by Kanton Zug for Tine Melzer & Markus Kummer: Blumen sind geil. 2020. The Green Box, Berlin. ISBN 978-3-96216-003-6.
2017	BAK Award Die Schönsten Schweizer Bücher 2016 for Taxidermy for Language-Animals, designed by Urs Lehni, Rollo Press, Zürich, CH.
2011/2015	Research stipend, LAPS, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL.
2014	Onoma, Fiskars Artist-in-Residence, Fiskars, FIN.
2013	Listhús, Artist-in-Residence, Olafsfjördur, IS.
2010	Research stipend, Fonds voor beeldende kunsten / Mondriaan Fund, Amsterdam, NL.
2010	TITANIK Gallery Artist-in-Residence, Turku, FIN & Onoma, Fiskars Artist-in-Residence, FIN.
2009	Research stipend, Cultuurfondsbeurs, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Amsterdam, NL.
2009	IMMA, Artist-in-Residence, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, IR.
2006–2007	Work stipend, Fonds voor beeldende kunsten & Mondriaan Fonds, Stimulerinsgsubsidie.
2005	Stipend, Fellowship, Rijksakademie Residency, Van den Berch van Heemstede Stichting, NL.
2004–2005	Work stipend, Niederländischen Kultusministeriums für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kunst (OCenW), NL.
2003	Rietveld Academie Award, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL.
2001	Ida-Wolff-Förderpreis, Fine Arts, Fürth, DE.

LECTURES


February 2021	Text! Universitätsbibliothek Bern
June 2021	Conference Paper Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ästhetik. Zürcher Hochschule der Künste
July 2021	Blumen sind geil. Volumes Zürich Kunsthalle.
July 2021	'Hearing Aspects Change'. Museum Folkwang Essen. Conference The Act of Hearing.
Aug 2020	The Complete Dictionary at Edition Taberna Kritika, Bern. Lecture with David Zürcher.
June 2020	Lecture: 'Language hides in the Corner of our Eyes, smiling.' Staedelschule Frankfurt.
March 2020	Sprache und Menschen. Vortrag zur Sprachphilosophie des Alltags, Haus der Generationen, Bern.
Feb 2020	Publishing, Bookmaking and Language Games as autonomous Practice. Lecture at Aalto University, Helsinki.
Jan 2020	Buchroutine. Lecture in conference: Wir publizieren. Kunsthalle Bern, Bern.
Dec 2019	Visiting the Site twice. Aspectual Thinking in W.G. Sebald’s work. Presentation of paper: Memory, Word and Image: W.G. Sebald’s Artistic Legacies. AHM Conference, Amsterdam, 12-14 December 2019
Nov 2019	Lecture Book-Publishing as Artistic Practice at HFK Bremen, November 25th
Nov 2019	Geglückte Missverständnisse, talk with Tine Melzer at Speaking Corner, Dock, Basel, November 13th
July 2019	Pointing on Aspects. Introduction on Aspect Change. rMA defense of Tobias Servaas, University of Amsterdam. Tolbar, Amsterdam
March 2019	Zurich University of the Arts (Zhdk). Selfpublishing as artistic practice. Public lecture Ver/öffentlich/en. MA Kunst und Vermittlung. 18h. Room 5.T09.
March 2019	Forschungs-Apero University of the Arts Bern. Input by Tine Melzer on phenomena of aspectual thinking.
March 2019	Talige Dieren. Presentation by Tine Melzer about language of animals and language-animals, Literaire Theater Perdu, Amsterdam.
March 2019	March 6 2019 WILD EXPERIMENTS Panel discussion at University of the Arts Bern (HKB). Intervention by Tine Melzer: Naming, are we guinea pigs who forget their own name? Forschung FSP Intermedialität.
Dec 2018	Outside Sundays. Getaway #35: Tine Melzer.KUNST SZENE ZÜRICH. Reading with David Zürcher.
2018	Together we can say everything. Hochschule Anhalt. Dessau.
2018	The Principle of Translation, Symposium: Emptiness and Infinite Space IV. Arti et Amicitiae, Rokin 112, Amsterdam, NL
2018	Die Nacht der tausend Fragen – Das Zeitfestival in Biel. Biel/Bienne, CH. Café Littéraire, 22 h, lecture. Vision 2035
2018	Reading Bleisulfid at MATERIALSCHAU Art Book Show at Haus Konstruktiv Zürich.
2018	One Book A Day. Workshop at I NEVER READ Art Book Fare Basel,
2018	Wahrnehmen und Verfremden: Dutch Self-Publishing. Talk with Frans Oosterhof & Tine Melzer. With Jan Steinbach. Material,, Zurich.
2018	FORSCHUNGS-MITTWOCH #78 Bilder Kippen! ASPEKTSEHEN IN KÜNSTLERISCHER PRAXIS UND LEHRE with Tine Melzer and Frans Oosterhof, Dorothea Franck, Egon Stemle, Instituut Houtappel, FSP Intermedialität. HKB University of the Arts Bern.
2018	Lecture and round table discussion WRITING WORLDS, ARIAS & Art History department University of Amsterdam, with Maria Fusco, Marieke Barnas, Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes, Tine Melzer, Miriam Rasch, Diederik Oostdijk and Jeroen Boomgaard. Literaire Theater Perdu, Amsterdam.
2018	Lecture at University of Amsterdam, MA Artistic research, ARRG.
2017	Table Talk at SARN Conference, 8.– 9. 12. 2017, Zurich University of the Arts, Zurich
2017	Presentation «Taxidermy for Language – Animals», Lehrerzimmer PROGR Bern, 27.11. 2017
2017	Podium Discussion «Schön sind nur die Dinge, die uns nichts angehen.», Oscar Wilde. With Andreas Vogel, Tine Melzer, Stefan Sulzer, Winfried Heiniger and Michael Mischler, Lehrerzimmer PROGR Bern, 23.11.2017
2017	POLYPHONIA Images in Language & Saying by Showing, Goethe-Institut Sofia, Bulgaria. Curated by Frans Oosterhof.
2017	Wahrnehmen & Verfremden – Selfpublishing im niederländischen Fluxus, GK Talk, HKB Bern University of the Arts
2016	‘Words in and Out of Order’, Writing, International Conference on Artistic Research, Den Haag, NL.
2016	‘Creative Villages’, Leytron ECAV, Valais, CH.
2014	Language-Games for Artists’, Parenthesis, SARN Unconference, HEAD Geneva, CH.
2013	WordGames’, ExtraCity & Sint Joost Academie, MuhKa – Museum of Modern Art, Antwerp, B.
2013	‘Why did Ludwig & Gertrude prefer Detective Novels?’, KUMU Estonian Art Museum Tallinn, EST.
2013	‘Sprachspiel’, Museum Bärengasse, Zürich, CH.
2012	‘Language Games’, Kunstraum sic!, Luzern, CH.
2012	‘Sprachspiele’, Guestcorner, Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel, Basel, CH.
2012	Rede-Wendungen, Lesen üben, Workshop on the Library of Andreas Züst, Bibliothek Andres Züst, Alpenhof, AI, CH.
2011	‘Language Games’, Motive Gallery Amsterdam, NL.
2011	‘Verbal Context,’ presentation and interview with Fiona Fullam, Goethe-Institut, Dublin, IR.
2010	‘Art/Writing: Writers, Writing and Exhibition-Making’, The Dock, Carrick-on-Suir.,IR.
2010	‘Language based visual Art’, Taidekunstakatemia, Kunstakademie, Turku. FIN.
2009	Artist Talk, ARP Conversation, Kasper Andreasen & Marguerite O’Molloy, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, IR.
2006	‘Image and Context: Interpretations of text in public space’, Skaftfell Artcenter, Sedisfjördur, IS.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO PUBLICATIONS




2021	The Complete Dictionary, In: Sich in Sprache begegnen. Galerie Delmenhorst, p. 100
2021	So sieht das Land aus, In: Sich in Sprache begegnen. Galerie Delmenhorst Tine Melzer & David Zürcher, p.94
2021	Nachbilder. Eine Foto Text Anthologie, p.36–55, Spector Books Leipzig.
2019	Article Aspect Change and Poetic Charge as Tools for Artistic Research in Literature. In: Artistic Research and Literature. Corina Caduff, Tan Wälchli (Eds.) Paderborn: WIlhelm Fink. 2019. XIV + 206 pages, ISBN: 978-3-7705-6333-3. Open source.
2019	Essay Tine Melzer in Die Verwandte (Hg. Mimi von Moos), Edition Patrick Frey, October 2019. 978-3-906803-91-3
2019	Wenn es etwas gibt, dann gibt es es überall. Tine Melzer at «Out of the Blue», 2017-2018. A poster series by Stingray Editions In collaboration with Ausstellungsraum Klingental. Design: Kambiz Shafei. Invited by Sarina Scheidegger.
2018	Taxidermy for Language-Animals is up on Icecreambooks. Summertime!
2018	Style is forbidden! Works by 68 alumni of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Edited by Frans Oosterhof. Published by Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL
2018	Protest by Tine Melzer. In: Protest. Eine Zukunftspraxis, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (Hg.), Lars Müller Publishers, pp.308-333.
2017	‘Magnetic Words’, contribution to ‘Wordplay’, Designblog, Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam, in collaboration with Henk Groenendijk.
2017	How to enter, Reader: Art.School.Differences, ZhdK/HEAD, CH
2016	Excuse me, who is playing?, Creative Villages, Leytron, Valais-CH, iZm ECAV
2015	Seminar ‘Visible Language’ in Jahresbericht 2014/2015, Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe
2014	‘Hidden Poem out of Søren Grammel: Manual No.1 Le Courbeau et le Renard, Aufstand der Sprache mit Marcel Broodthaers’. In: Sarina Scheidegger & Chantal Küng, Rooftopreadings: HIDDEN POEMS, Basel: Pyramid Press.
2013	The Stairs’. In: Aedade Järelelu / Afterlives of Gardens 2, Tallinn: Eesti Kunstimuuseum KUMU.
2013	‘Ludwig & Gertrude, from Missouri, A–Z’, in collaboration with Egon W. Stemle, Amsterdam/Zürich.
2013	‘Im Publikum’, in: Ariane Koch & Sarina Scheidegger, NOW THIS OVER OVER, Basel: Ausstellungsraum Klingental.
2013	‘Ludwig & Gertrude’. In: ‘Lost & Found’. PaperWork Magazine 1 London.
2012	‘Vocabulary for Vanessa Piffaretti & Glossary’, in collaboration with Vanessa Piffaretti. In: ‘The Royalty Issue’ Prisma 2. Zürich.
2012	‘Verbal Visualization’. In: Limina 2. Milano: M-Node by NABA LIBRI.
2011	‘Dialogue Design’, in: Experiencing Design, Behaving Media. Conciousness Reframed, Munich: Planetary Collegium.
2010	‘Palast der Farben (Palace of Colours)’. Art@Work 5 Zürich: Art@Work ti&m.
2010	‘Dear Ladies and Gentlemen’. In: Will Holder, Ann Demeester, Dieter Roelstraete (eds.), F. R. David: With Love, de Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam.
2010	‘You name it’. In: Limina 1 Milano: M-Node by NABA LIBRI.
2010	‘I Have Changed My Mind’; ‘Literal Metaphor’. In: A Propos D’écriture(s) CACLB, Bruxelles: klet & ko.
2010	‘Please don’t tell anyone’, ‘It lies beyond this door’, Light at the Horizon’. In: What happens next is a secret, Dublin: Irish Museum of Modern Art IMMA.
2010	‘Introduction’. In: Two Disciplines, One Cup. Experiments In Art And Research, ART and RESEARCH, Amsterdam: Gerrit Rietveld Academy.
2009	‘What’s in a Name?’, in collaboration with Groenendijk. In: ‘The Archive – Speaking of Images’. Gray Magazine 5, Amsterdam: Gerrit Rietveld Academy.
2009	‘Quantum’. In: ‘Klein Woordenboek over Tijd, presentation 13’. Vouwblad 7, Amstelveen.
2008	‘Buchstabensuppe’. In: HTV de IJsberg, Amsterdam.
2007	‘The Grass is Greener on the Other Side’, in collaboration with Andreasen. In: Caldic Collection. ARTISTS’ BOOKS, Rotterdam: Caldic Collectie.
2007	‘Talking to Strangers’, ‘Literal Metaphor’. In: Kasper Andreasen and Louis Lüthi, Speaking of which, Liége; Amsterdam: Le Comptoir.
2007	Die neue Papa ist deutsch, in coollaboration with Cevdet Erek, CD, Nekropsi, EMI.
2007	‘Salon’, ‘Backdoors’, ‘Recall their Voices’, ‘The only Advantage that the Written Word has over the Spoken Word is Permanence’. In: Kasper Andreasen, Time Out, Amsterdam: W139.
2007	‘The Dream of the Speechmachine’. In: Uqbar Foundation (Mariana Castillo Deball and Irene Kopelman), A for Alibi, Berlin: Sternberg Press.
2007	Graphic for 7” vinyl-record by T. Vonna–Michell: ‘Tall Tales and Short Stories’, Witte de With, Rotterdam.
2006	Melzer (ed.): ‘Autonomie’, Kunsthuis SYB, 4 (4), Groningen.
2006	‘List 83’. In: Beauty Unrealized, #103, Amsterdam: Roma Publications.
2005	‘The Complete Dictionary’. In: Michael Gibbs, SomeVolumesFromTheLibraryOfBabel, Cromford: RGAP.
2005	Andreasen/Melzer (eds) I drew some names from a hat, Amsterdam: from Missouri.
2005	‘Let us be silent about something else’, ‘Die Neue Papa ist deutsch’, ‘When in doubt…’ In: Open Ateliers 2005. Amsterdam: Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten.
2005	2005 ‘Laur’s Lexicon’. In: HTV de IJsberg, Amsterdam.
2004	‘Index’. In: Thru 4, Breda.
2004	‘The Complete Dictionary’. In: Sewahd, HTV de IJsberg 50, Amsterdam.
2003	Do you have a good sense of orientation?, in collaboration with Tudor Bratu, Nuremberg: self-published.
2003	Documentation Of A Population, in colllaboration with Kasper Andreasen and Joséphine Hirschi, Amsterdam: self-published.

COLLECTIONS


2019	Several books by Tine Melzer aquired by the Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Bremen, November 2019
2019	Thing Ding Chose Coase (Kasper Andreasen&Tine Melzer). Das geteilte Unvermögen, 2019. Dialog, 2004. Bleisulfid, 2018. Bayrische Staatsbibliothek München.
2018	LAT Series of prints, Kasper Andreasen & Tine Melzer, 2003–2005, 70x100cm each, two colour silkscreen prints, printed by Kees Maas, poster collection of Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich.
2007	The Grass is Greener on the Other Side, purchased by Caldic Collection, Rotterdam, NL.
2006	The Twins Look Alike, purchased by Universität für angewandte Kunst, Wien, A.
2006	I drew some names from a hat, purchased by De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam, NL.
2005	LAT–Serie, purchased by the Collection of the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, NL.
	and several private collections.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020

Blumen sind geil, exhibition & lecture by Tine Melzer & Markus Kummer, The Green Box / Exhibition at A-Z.

2019

Das geteilte Unvermögen. Exhibition of multiples by Stefan Sulzer & Tine Melzer. MATERIAL, Klingenstrasse 23. Reading by Tine Melzer and David Zürcher.

2015

Garden of Colours, commission for a permanent outdoor installation, Technology Innovation AG, Zurich, CH.

2013

Dark White New work shown in Listhús, Olafsfjördur, IS.

2011

Variationen – variations mit Rutger Emmelkamp, Strümpfe – The Supper Art Club, Jungbusch, Mannheim, DE.

2011

Verbal Context, Return Gallery, Goethe-Institut, Dublin, IR.

2010

Palast der Farben, commission for permanent indoor installation, Technology Innovation AG, Zurich, CH.

2010

Literal Translations, project space of SUMU / Gallery Titanik, Turku, FIN.

2009

Cheer Up Fellows!, with Tudor Bratu & Philippe van Wolputte, Blue Episode Foundation, Utrecht, NL.

2009

Today, new work in the Process Room at Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, IR.

2008

Inventory, with Kasper Andreasen, Johan Deumens Editions and Artists’ books, Haarlem, NL.

2006

The Grass is Greener on the Other Side, with Kasper Andreasen, De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam, NL.

2006

Rufmord, text-installation and projection, Inka Christmann, Karlsruhe, DE.

2004

Riddles and Language-games, text-installation and publication, Public Space with a Roof, Amsterdam, NL.

2003

The Complete Dictionary, Achter de Ramen, Amsterdam, NL.

2003

Do you have a good sense of orientation?, commission with Tudor Bratu, RO/NL, Nürnberg, DE.

2001

Nothing, solo for Ida-Wolff-Award, Stadthalle, Fürth, DE.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS






2018	Gerrit turns 50, Willem only 28 Rietveld Anniversary Show, 3 - 25 November 2018. Fred.Roeskestraat 96, Amsterdam, NL
2018	Bleisulfid/Lead Sulphide at HOB/ART BOOK FAIR 2018 / A Published Event, Hobart.
2017	POLYPHONIA group exhibition, Goethe-Institut Sofia, Bulgaria. Curated by Frans Oosterhof.
2017	DIE SCHÖNSTEN SCHWEIZER BÜCHER 2016, Helmhaus Zürich.
	SSB, Biblioteca Linard, Lavin Engadin
	SSB, LiveInYourHead, Institut curatorial HEAD, Geneva
	SSB, Schule für Gestaltung St. Gallen
2017	SAMMELPLATZ, group exhibition, Nextex, St.Gallen, CH. Curated by Anna Beck-Wörner and Ueli Vogt. Public readings by Matthias Flückiger.
2017	CopyConstruct, Mechelen, BE. Curated by Kasper Andreasen.
2017	An den Rändern, Language-performance with David Zürcher, for the work ‚Bordure‘ von Markus Kummer, Zug, CH.
2017	I Dislike, Johan Deumens Artist’s Books, Art Rotterdam, NL.
2013	Kõndides mööda salateid (part of: Afterlives of Gardens) new work in the garden of Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, EST. Curated by Margit Säde Lehni.
2013	Entdeckt/Wiederentdeckt Manfred Hölzel, Vincent Kriste, Tine Melzer. Museum Bärengasse, Zürich, CH. Curated by Rolf Müller.
2012	Arkhes Travel, Boetzelaer \| Nispen Gallery, London, GB.
2011–12	Munt met een Missie, Centraal Museum Utrecht, NL.
2012	‘Eliza’s eating elephants and hates to draw trees.’ sic! Raum für Kunst, Sälistrasse 24, Lucerne, CH. Curated by Nadine Wietlisbach.
2011	In- and Outside – writing Voorkamer, Lier, BE.
2011	Homo Ludens Act 1 Motive Gallery Amsterdam, NL.
2010	Werk-und Atelierstipendien der Stadt Zürich, Helmaus Zürich, CH.
2010	What happens next is a secret Irish Museum of Modern Art The Gordon Lambert Galleries, IMMA, IR. Curated by Maguerite O’Molloy.
2010	A propos d’écritures Maison de la Culture Famenne-Ardenne, Belgium.
2009–10	Object Research Lab – Relational Thingness M4 project space Amsterdam, with Kasper Andreasen, Yvonne Droge-Wendel and others, NL.
2009	Work by Andreasen & Melzer with Johan Deumens Gallery at E/AB Fair, New York, US.
2009	This is how we meet, contribution to the 10th conference of the Dieter Roth Academy, Otterbeck Architekten, Kemnat, DE.
2009	Art Amsterdam, Artist’s books Johan Deumens, Amsterdam, NL.
2009	Art Bruxelles, Motive Gallery, Amsterdam, NL.
2009	Cheer Up Fellows, (with Tudor Bratu & Philippe van Wolputte), Blue Episode Foundation Utrecht, NL.
2008	The Order of Things, MuhKA – Museum voor hedendaagse kunst, Antwerp, BE. Curated by Dieter Roelstraete.
2008	Non-knowledge, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, IR.
2008	LAT – Lightning And Thunder (with Kasper Andreasen & Kees Maas), Achter de Ramen, Amsterdam, NL.
2008	1141 – Magnetic Field, Galerie GIST, Amsterdam / Brummen, NL.
2007	Artists’ Books, Caldic Collection, Rotterdam, NL.
2007	The Tunnel, Editions and Artists’ books Johan Deumens, EAB, Chelsea, New York , US.
2007	Artistbook International, Editions and Artists’ books Johan Deumens, Centre Pompidou, Paris , F.
2007	Speaking of which, Le Comptoir, Liege/Luik, BE. Curated by Kasper Andreasen and Louis Lüthi.
2007	Readingmachine & Speechmachines, A for Alibi, Uqbar foundation, de Appel, Amsterdam, NL. Curated by Irene Kopelman and Mariana Castillo-Deball.
2007	On Memory, Editions and Artists’ books Johan Deumens at Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem, NL.
2006	Beauty Unrealized, Archive contribution, PSWAR, Amsterdam, NL.
2006	Just in Time, LAT Siebdruck / Installation (with Kasper Andreasen & Kees Maas), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL.
2006	I have changed my mind, Gaedingarnir – In order of appearance, Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, IS.
2006	Give a colour to a white lie, text installation in public space, Marthouse, Amsterdam, NL.
2006	Changing Horizons, Editions and Artists’ books Johan Deumens, de Vishal, Haarlem, NL.
2006	ABC: Artist Book Center, Grafisch Atelier Utrecht, Utrecht, NL.
2006	I drew some names from a hat, initiative for new publishing processes, Achter de Ramen, Amsterdam, NL.
2005	Leap City, with Kasper Andreasen, ‘Amsterdam 2.0’, Mediamatic, Amsterdam, NL. Curated by Maurice Nio and Paul Perry.
2005	Final, Editions and Artists’ books Johan Deumens, Wetering Galerie, Amsterdam, NL.
2005	Open Ateliers 05, Rijksakademie van beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL.
2005	nah und gut, Artwalk Amsterdam, Spandammer buurt, Amsterdam, NL.
2005	Let us be silent about something else, Flags in public space, Artists on Military Spots, bART, Den Bosch, NL.
2005	Forget it! Garage Festival, Stralsund, DE.
2005	Die neue Papa ist deutsch, with Cevdet Erek, Reykjavik, IS [Nekropsi, CD published by EMI Turkey in 2007].
2005	Printing Matters, LAT (with Kasper Andreasen & Kees Maas), silkscreen, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL.
2005	Machine, text installation, The Right to Remain Silent, 66east, Center for Urban Culture, Amsterdam, NL.
2004	Open Ateliers 04, Rijksakademie van beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL.
2004	Archief, with Tudor Bratu and Kasper Andreasen, de Vishal, Haarlem, NL.

SELECTED WORKS IN PUBLIC

2021/2023

Nischen, permanent public installation, Kultur Stadt Bern

2019

Wenn es etwas gibt, dann gibt es es überall. Tine Melzer at «Out of the Blue», 2017-2018. A poster series by Stingray Editions In collaboration with Ausstellungsraum Klingental. Design: Kambiz Shafei. Invited by Sarina Scheidegger.

2016

Besuch in collaboration with Mara Züst and Büro 146, new permanent installation, Alpenhof, Appenzell, CH.

2014

Stairs & Flags new work for Kõndides mööda salateid in the garden of Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, EST.

2009

Cheer Up Fellows! II, in collaboration with Tudor Bratu, public installations in Dublin, IR.

2006

Give a colour to a white lie, text installation at Marthouse, Amsterdam, NL.

2006

I have changed my mind, photography, buttons, installation of flags, IS.

2005

Let us be silent about something else, De Citadel, Artists on Military Spots, bART, Den Bosch, NL.

2003

HIER, commission for permanent installation of pavement slabs in the city of Nürnberg, DE.

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