Mélanie Meystre
Archetypal
Mélanie Meystre, archetypal outfit(s) for performance artist(s) - process, 2021, 20 hours performance © 2021 Alain Meystre
Mélanie Meystre, archetypal outfit(s) for performance artist(s) - process, 2021, 20 hours performance © 2021 Alain Meystre
Mélanie Meystre, archetypal outfit(s) for performance artist(s) - process, 2021, 20 hours performance © 2021 Alain Meystre
Mélanie Meystre, archetypal outfit(s) for performance artist(s) - process, 2021, 20 hours performance © 2021 Ruben Wyttenbach
Je perds des perles
Mélanie Meystre & Luca Vaira, je perds des perles (a mysterious sound from the deep ocean), 2021, performance © 2021 Thibault Villars
Mélanie Meystre & Luca Vaira, je perds des perles (a mysterious sound from the deep ocean), 2021, performance © 2021 Thibault Villars
Mélanie Meystre & Luca Vaira, je perds des perles (a mysterious sound from the deep ocean), 2021, performance © 2021 Thibault Villars
Mélanie Meystre & Luca Vaira, je perds des perles (a mysterious sound from the deep ocean), 2021, performance © 2021 Thibault Villars
Mélanie Meystre & Luca Vaira, je perds des perles (a mysterious sound from the deep ocean), 2021, performance © 2021 Thibault Villars
Mélanie Meystre & Luca Vaira, je perds des perles (a mysterious sound from the deep ocean), 2021, performance © 2021 Thibault Villars
Mélanie Meystre & Luca Vaira, je perds des perles (a mysterious sound from the deep ocean), 2021, performance © 2021 Thibault Villars
Mélanie Meystre & Luca Vaira, je perds des perles (a mysterious sound from the deep ocean), 2021, performance © 2021 Thibault Villars
Frame
Mélanie Meystre, frame, 2020, online performance © 2020 Mélanie Meystre
Mélanie Meystre, frame, 2020, online performance © 2020 Mélanie Meystre
Mélanie Meystre, frame, 2020, online performance © 2020 Mélanie Meystre
Mélanie Meystre, frame, 2020, online performance © 2020 Mélanie Meystre
Mélanie Meystre, frame, 2020, online performance © 2020 Mélanie Meystre
Mélanie Meystre, frame, 2020, online performance © 2020 Mélanie Meystre
Mélanie Meystre, frame, 2020, online performance © 2020 Mélanie Meystre
Mélanie Meystre, frame, 2020, online performance © 2020 Mélanie Meystre
H or the audience
Mélanie Meystre, H or the audience, 2020, video performance © 2020 Mélanie Meystre
Mélanie Meystre, H or the audience, 2020, video performance © 2020 Mélanie Meystre
Mélanie Meystre, H or the audience, 2020, video performance © 2020 Mélanie Meystre
Mélanie Meystre, H or the audience, 2020, video performance © 2020 Mélanie Meystre
Mélanie Meystre, H or the audience, 2020, video performance © 2020 Mélanie Meystre
Mélanie Meystre, H or the audience, 2020, video performance © 2020 Mélanie Meystre
Let's call this trust
Mélanie Meystre, let's call this trust, 2019, video performance © 2019 Camille Lepage
Mélanie Meystre, let's call this trust, 2019, video performance © 2019 Camille Lepage
Mélanie Meystre, let's call this trust, 2019, video performance © 2019 Camille Lepage
Mélanie Meystre, let's call this trust, 2019, video performance © 2019 Camille Lepage
Mélanie Meystre, let's call this trust, 2019, video performance © 2019 Camille Lepage
Mélanie Meystre, let's call this trust, 2019, video performance © 2019 Camille Lepage
Mélanie Meystre, let's call this trust, 2019, video performance © 2019 Camille Lepage
Mélanie Meystre, let's call this trust, 2019, video performance © 2019 Camille Lepage
Mélanie Meystre, let's call this trust, 2019, video performance © 2019 Camille Lepage
Mélanie Meystre, let's call this trust, 2019, video performance © 2019 Camille Lepage
Mélanie Meystre, let's call this trust, 2019, video performance © 2019 Camille Lepage
Mélanie Meystre, let's call this trust, 2019, video performance © 2019 Camille Lepage
Mélanie Meystre, let's call this trust, 2019, video performance © 2019 Camille Lepage
Mélanie Meystre, let's call this trust, 2019, video performance © 2019 Camille Lepage
Mélanie Meystre, let's call this trust, 2019, video performance © 2019 Camille Lepage
Du vert a l'encontre
Mélanie Meystre, décor #1 (du vert à l'encontre), 2019, video installation © 2019 Melanie Meystre
Mélanie Meystre, décor #1 (du vert à l'encontre), 2019, video installation © 2019 Mélanie Meystre
Mélanie Meystre, décor #1 (du vert à l'encontre), 2019, video installation © 2019 Mélanie Meystre
Mélanie Meystre, décor #1 (du vert à l'encontre), 2019, video installation © 2019 Mélanie Meystre
Mélanie Meystre, décor #1 (du vert à l'encontre), 2019, video installation © 2019 Mélanie Meystre
Mélanie Meystre, décor #1 (du vert à l'encontre), 2019, video installation © 2019 Mélanie Meystre
Bio
Mélanie Meystre (*1996, Montreux, CH) currently lives and works in Fribourg, CH. Mélanie Meystre works with performance, but she likes to bring it together with other media, such as sculpture, drawing, text, or sound. In her pieces, she deconstructs and reconstructs established standards to question them, and disrupts the audience’s perception and experience. In that sense, she plays with the fragile definition of performance art and brings it together with other fields or contexts such as theatre, circus, dance, and club culture.
2019-2021 : Master’s degree in Contemporary Art Practice (performance art) at Hochschule der Künste Bern (HKB), CH
2016-2019 : Bachelor’s degree in Fine arts at Ecole de Design et Haute Ecole d’Art (EDHEA), Sierre, CH
2018 : Erasmus exchange at LUCA School of Arts, Gent, BE
Mélanie curated REWIND II (no things fixed) at Fonderie 7, premises of Strecke Records, a music label based in Fribourg, and of which she is a member since 2020. Her work was exhibited in: Fri Art Kunsthalle Fribourg, CH (2020); artgenève, CH (2020). She was rewarded in 2019 by the Fondation BEA pour Jeunes Artistes.