A–Z moves from Amsterdam to Zurich, with some stops along the alphabet. It hosts books, texts and other work by Tine Melzer. She is a Zurich-based author, artist and researcher with a focus on language. Her literary work is represented by Liepman Agency, Zurich. Her novel Alpha Bravo Charlie is out now. The timid hero Herr Trost is not alone. The Atlas of Aspect Change is out now.
Tine Melzer connects the philosophy of language with visual art and her main motif is language. 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. Her main practice is writing and making books. She has taught at various European academies and universities since 2004. 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 on a research on Ludwig Wittgenstein meeting Gertrude Stein from the University of Plymouth, UK in 2014. Her work has been exhibited and published internationally.
Tine Melzer taught at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam since 2004 and worked in Amsterdam, Antwerp, Basel, Dessau, Dublin, Karlsruhe, London, Stuttgart, Turku, Utrecht, and Zurich. Currently, she teaches at the HKB Bern University of the Arts at the transdisciplinary Y Institute and at the Fine Arts at the Department of Art & Design. 2017-2022 she researched Aspect change at the University of the Arts Bern, Institut Praktiken und Theorien der Künste. 2021-224 she develops a manual for transdisciplinary research with René Rüegg at the transversale BFH.
Melzer’s work challenges language in its conceptual, image-related and philosophical aspects. Her work is bibliophilic, (typo-)graphic, interventional and public: it engages with codes and subtexts inherent in objects and signs, which often makes for multidisciplinary and collaborative work. Language-games (in the manner of Wittgenstein) and their interactions with context and media are the starting-points for works between autonomy and the commonplace. One focus is on vocabulary, which is also applied to her collaborations across disciplines, co-authorships, research, and teaching. The relation between showing and saying is an important motivation for Melzer; much of her work is based on this dichotomy, which thereby provides an opportunity to challenge public works and publications. Melzer takes codes in everyday language literally; unstable (contextual) expressions mean, for her, the basis of genuine understanding. A stuffed parrot is called Polly.
Tine Melzer’s work has been supported by the Mondriaan Fund (Fonds voor beeldende kunsten, vormgeving en bouwkunst), Amsterdam and Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Amsterdam; in 2011, she was granted a research stipend by LAPS, Research Institute for Art and Public Space, Amsterdam. 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. Tine Melzer’s current work is supported by work stipends from the Kultur Stadt Bern, and Kanton Bern, Switzerland, and Burgergemeinde Bern. She received a COVID-19 work stipend from Kultur Stadt Zürich in 2021 and a studio stipend at Rote Fabrik, Zürich.
26.2.23 NZZ am Sonntag: Manfred Pabst: 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
PAST
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
CV OVERVIEW
Tine Melzer is an author, artist, and researcher. Her work connects the philosophy of language with visual instruments and literature; her main motif is language. She studied philosophy at the University of Amsterdam and fine arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten. Melzer received her PhD from the University of Plymouth for a thesis on Ludwig Wittgenstein and Gertrude Stein. She has taught at universities throughout Europe, since 2014 at the Bern Academy of the Arts (HKB) at the Y Institute, on the MA course in Contemporary Arts Practice and at the Fine Arts Department. Research at the Institut Praktiken und Theorien der Künste, HKB. Recently published works include Taxidermy for Language-Animals (2016), Blumen sind geil (2020, with Markus Kummer), Ludwig & Gertrude (2021, with Egon Stemle) and Alpha Bravo Charlie (2023). Her work is exhibited and published internationally.
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Parrot Portrait
Mara Truog
Webdesign
Studio Tobias Becker
Typography
Hermes Optimo by Gavillet & Rust, Geneva
2017