Melle Nieling

05.11.2022 - 31.01.2023
Leipzig

Melle Nieling is a contemporary artist based between London, United Kingdom and the Netherlands.

Nieling's practice probes the perceived dissonances between binaries. At the core lie questions concerning the definition of veracity and how our perception of reality is shaped. Through the emulation of institutional entities, established frameworks and inconspicuous everyday occurrences, Nieling dissects their charged symbolism and explores their role in the attribution of value and identity.

The relationship between reality and virtuality — a finite experience of the corporeal realm versus a potential infinity — plays a large role, resulting in works that play with the limits of space. Nieling likes to build walls were there shouldn't be any and create access points to spaces and realities that don't exist. For one of their early pieces, ‘Proverbs 2:13’, they built a life-sized replica of a non-existent flat and subsequently filmed a documentary inside of it, pretending to visit the original flat before the process of replication commenced.

Melle Nieling's work has been exhibited in galleries and art spaces internationally, including in Cromwell Place in London, SISSI Club in Marseille, Villa de Bank and Garage Rotterdam in the Netherlands and 18th Street Art Center in Los Angeles.

Education

• 2021 Royal College of Art London, UK

• 2019 Tetem Talent development Enschede, NL

• 2018 Bcademie Rotterdam, NL

• 2017 AKI Enschede, NL