Tine Melzer (geboren 1978, lebt in Zürich) studierte Kunst und Philosophie in Amsterdam und promovierte über Ludwig Wittgenstein und Gertrude Stein. Sie lehrt an Kunsthochschulen und publizierte transdisziplinären, u.a. »Taxidermy for Language-Animals« und »Atlas of Aspect Change«. Ihr 2023 erschienener Debütroman »Alpha Bravo Charlie« wurde mehrfach ausgezeichnet, u.a. mit dem Franz-Tumler-Literaturpreis, und war für den Rauriser Literaturpreis nominiert. 2024 erschien ihr zweiter Roman »Do Re mi Fa So« bei Jung und Jung. Tine Melzer wird von Liepman Agency Zürich vertreten.
Tine Melzer is a Zurich-based author, artist, and researcher focused on language. Liepman Agency represents her literary work. Her novels Alpha Bravo Charlie and »Do Re mi Fa So« are out now. As well as the transdisciplinary collaborative book Atlas of Aspect Change.
Melzer studied Fine Arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, and Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. She undertook postgraduate research at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten and received her PhD in research on Ludwig Wittgenstein meeting Gertrude Stein from the University of Plymouth, UK in 2014. Her work has been exhibited and published internationally. She has worked in Amsterdam, Antwerp, Basel, Dessau, Dublin, Karlsruhe, London, Stuttgart, Turku, Utrecht, and Zurich. She teaches at the HKB Bern University of the Arts at the transdisciplinary Y Institute and the Fine Arts at the Department of Art & Design. She researched Aspect change at the University of the Arts Bern, Institut Praktiken und Theorien der Künste. 2022-2024 she developed a manual for transdisciplinary research with René Rüegg at the transversale BFH, published as ZWISCHEN DISZIPLINEN in 2024.
Tine Melzer’s artwork challenges language in its conceptual, image-related, and philosophical aspects. Melzer takes codes in everyday language literally; unstable (contextual) expressions mean, for her, the basis of genuine understanding. As published in her award-winning book Taxidermy for Language-Animals: A Book on Stuffed Words by Tine Melzer she examines language fragments from different practices—philosophy, literature, visual art—by exploiting some of our linguistic habits and tools. Taxidermy for Language Animals, designed by Urs Lehni, Rollo Press was selected as one of Die Schönsten Schweizer Bücher 2016 BAK, Federal Office of Culture FOC. A–Z moves from Amsterdam to Zurich, with some stops along the alphabet. It hosts books, texts, and other works by Tine Melzer.
Tine Melzer’s work has been supported by the Mondriaan Fund (Fonds voor beeldende kunsten, vormgeving en bouwkunst), Amsterdam and Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Amsterdam, and by stipends from the Kultur Stadt Bern, and Kanton Bern, Switzerland, and Burgergemeinde Bern and from Kultur Stadt Zürich. In 2023 Stadt Bern awarded her the "Weiterschreiben" literature stipend. In 2023 Kanton Zürich awarded the "Werkjahr" literature stipend and Pro Helvetia a literature stipend. Her novel Alpha Bravo Charlie won the Franz-Tumler Literaturpreis in 2023 and was shortlisted for the Rauriser Literaturpreis 2023.
26.10.Do Re Mi Fa So, 20.30h, Lesung mit Musik von David Zürcher,Literaturhaus Zürich, ZÜRICH LIEST
17.11. Do Re Mi Fa So, Lesung, Buch Basel
19.11. Do Re Mi Fa So, Lesung und Dinner, Diner Litteraire, Solothurn
21.11. Do Re Mi Fa So, 19.30, Lesung Rauch und König, Herzogstraße 84, München
5.12. Do Re Mi Fa So, Literaturhaus Olten
ONLINE MEDIA
Alpha Bravo Charlie im podcast eins.sieben.drei
TEDxTalk How to change perspective, TEDx Bratislava
Radio Ö: 1Alpha Bravo Charlie: Die Welt en Miniature, 7.2.2024 11.05 h
PAST
1.10.24, Do Re Mi Fa So, Bankier und Bariton: Über die Muße, mit Patrick Holzapfel: Hermelin auf Bänken, Lesung und Gespräch, 19h, Alte Schmiede Wien
26.8.24 Do Re Mi Fa So, Buchtaufe Buchhandlung Volkshaus, Zürich
30.8.24 Portalsätze, Booklaunch edition taberna kritika, Bern
1.9.24 Do Re Mi Fa So, Lesung Matinee, Literaturtage Vinschgau, Laas
15.3.24 Mirja Lanz & Tine Melzer, Lesung und Gespräch: Sie flogen nachts / Alpha Bravo Charlie, KULTURRAUM THALWIL,
20.2.24 Lesung Alpha Bravo Charlie, LiteraturGesellschaft Luzern
19.01.24 Spezialausgabe! Tine Melzer & David Zürcher, Never Stop Reading, Zürich
14.12.23. Club Literatur mit X Kris Schneeberger, Bollwerk, Bern
12.12.2023 Alpha Bravo Charlie on the Shortlist of Rauriser Literaturpreis 2024
20.10.203 Lesung "Alpha Bravo Charlie"
29.9.2023 Kulturkarrussel Rössli, Stäfa, Lesereise Werkbeiträge Literatur des Kantons Zürich
22.9.2023 Wettbewerb um den Franz Tumler Literaturpreis, Laas
20.9.2023 Preisverleihung, Literarische Auszeichnung "Weiterschreiben" Stadt Bern, Yehudi Menuhin Forum Bern
8.9.2023 Stuttgarter Lyriknacht – Lesungen und Gespräche mit Anja Utler, Claudia Gabler, Jochen Kelter und Tine Melzer / Moderation: Beate Tröger und Moritz Heger, Literaturhaus Stuttgart, Stadtbibliothek und Schriftstellerhaus Stuttgart
26.2.23 NZZ am Sonntag: Manfred Papst: Schweigend ins Gespräch vertieft.
6.3.2023, 19.00 Uhr, Schweizer Buchtaufe "Atlas of Aspect Change", Lehrerzimmer, PROGR, Bern
4.4.2023, 19.30 Uhr, Lesung von Tine Melzer aus ihrem Roman »Alpha Bravo Charlie«, Literatur & Bühne,Leberngasse 17, CH-4600 Olten
12.05.2023, Debütabend im Literaturhaus Zürich mit Tine Melzers Roman »Alpha Bravo Charlie« und anderen Autor:innen, Literaturhaus Zürich, Limmatquai 62, 8001 Zürich
27.2.2023, 19.30 Uhr, Schweizer Buchtaufe von Tine Melzers Roman »Alpha Bravo Charlie«, Buchhandlung im Volkshaus, Stauffacherstrasse 60, 8004 Zürich
20.2.2023, Zwei Herren, Tine Melzer "Alpha Bravo Charlie" Roman. Jung und Jung Verlag & Dagmar Leupold "Dagegen die Elefanten!" Roman. Jung und Jung Verlag, MODERATION Johannes Tröndle 19 Uhr, Alte Schmiede, Schönlaterngasse 9, 1010 Wien
February 24th, 18h 2022 Text! Universitätsbibliothek Bern
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CONTRIBUTIONS TO PUBLICATIONS |
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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
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SELECTED WORKS IN PUBLIC
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tine(at)workmail.com
Parrot Portrait
Mara Truog
Webdesign
Studio Tobias Becker
Typography
Hermes Optimo by Gavillet & Rust, Geneva
2017