Melanie Manchot

Melanie Manchot, STEPHEN, 2023. Courtesy Parafin, London and Galerie m, Bochum. Image credit: Melanie Manchot/Andrew Schonfelder.

Melanie Manchot, STEPHEN, 2023. Courtesy Parafin, London and Galerie m, Bochum. Image credit: Melanie Manchot/Andrew Schonfelder.

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Melanie Manchot (b. 1966 Germany. Lives and works in London) employs photography, film, video and sound to form a sustained enquiry into how we negotiate and construct our individual and collective identities. Performance-to-camera, reconstruction and participation as well as location-based research are recurring methodologies. Photographic series and moving image works - both single screen and multi-channel installations - operate on the cross section of documentary, staged events and narration to investigate how fact, fiction and observation offer strategies for speaking about our shifting place in an increasingly mediated world. Manchot is currently in production for her first feature film, Stephen, commissioned by Liverpool Biennial. She is also working on a new video commission for Urbane Kuenste Ruhr in Germany, which will be presented alongside a solo museum show in spring 2023.

Her work is held in many public collections and was recently presented in a major survey show at museum MAC/VAL, Paris. Manchot is represented by Parafin, London and Galerie m, Bochum.

Selected recent solo exhibitions: Alpine Diskomiks, Parafin, London, 2022; Black Snow White Out, Museum Lumen, Italy, 2021; Mountainworks (Montafon), InnSitu, Innsbruck, Austria (2019); Open Stage/Back Stage, Kunsthaus Pasquart, Switzerland (2019); Open Ended Now, MAC VAL, Paris, France, Art Night London (2018).