Erick meyenberg biography

Erick Meyenberg (CDMX, 1980) is an interdisciplinary visual artist who sees painting as a fundamental element of expression, although he also explores other media such as sound installation, drawing, collage, video and performance.
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Erick Meyenberg was born in Mexico City.

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Erick Meyenberg (CDMX, 1980) is an interdisciplinary visual artist who sees painting as a fundamental element of expression, although he also explores other media such as sound installation, drawing, collage, video and performance. In his work, he shows a special interest in literature, history, social sciences, and natural sciences.

For Meyenberg art is a tool that helps unearth that accumulation of historical layers that are forgotten, making all the elements come into play to get to an ‘aesthetic whole’.

He considers the editing process essential in his work. It is there where he explores the aesthetic potential of images, where he plays with the possibilities they offer, their relationships, and through precise observations, he discovers new meanings, new ideas.

Meyenberg is a graduate of the National School of Plastic Arts. He has a Master’s degree in Visual Arts from the University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany (UdK, Berlin) where he studied under the mentorship of German artist Rebecca Horn.

His work is part of some public collections such as the MUAC of the UNAM, the Am

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Erick Meyenberg was born in Mexico City. His work is grounded in research that uses the tools of history, science and language. History provides extensive inspiring source material in which to insert his aesthetic plans. A sense of place is an equally important influence through the natural and social landscape, the architecture, light and monuments of any given location.

In recent years, both in Mexico and in other countries, Meyenberg’s research has been mainly the result of museum commissions. These commissions allow for the creation of projects based on research into specific places, providing an environment to develop projects that activate determined and precise contexts. Such projects are characterised by seriousness and depth in the research and are consolidated in diverse aesthetic experiences through the use of a wide range of media.

A graduate of the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas (ENAP) of the UNAM, Meyenberg’s light/audio instillations have been shown widely across Mexico. Meyenberg has also studied and exhibited in Berlin.

‘For me it would be fundamental to

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Labor Berlin 2: Erick Meyenberg

At first glance it appears to be a 19th century anthropological treatise, but a closer look reveals an ironic analysis of ethnological attempts to neatly classify "race". The springboard for Mexican artist Erick Meyenberg is the standard work "Forjando Patria" (Forging a Homeland) by Manuel Gamio, the father of Mexico’s cultural anthropology. In his work, he conjures up the idea that society is held together by a common cultural identity.

In his sound and light installation, Meyenberg deciphers this “dream Mexican”, whose genome has recently been officially defined. He uses the LED colors red, green and blue, which stand for the indigenous people, blacks, and whites: illuminated at the same time and with the same intensity, they result in a mixed color - white.

The exhibition series Labor Berlin is dedicated to international artists who have selected Berlin as their new home: Erick Meyenberg, born 1980 in Mexico City, was Sol Lewitt’s assistant in 2002, and from 2005 to 2009 was a student of Rebecca Horn at the UdK, Berli