Zane Mellupe
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Zane Mellupe is a Latvian artist
and independent curator
, working and living in Shanghai
(China
).
, she co-founded at island6 arts center in Shanghai, where she was also the creative director (2007-2010). During these years, Mellupe developed new techniques and created a large number of mixed-media works with the collective and under the name of created fictitious artists.
Early 2010, Zane Mellupe started to collaborate with Alexis Kouzmine-Karavaïeff to curate exhibitions at ifa gallery
in Shanghai.
At the mean time, Mellupe created Yongkang Lu Art, a community contemporary art concept, located on the east side of Yongkang street in Shanghai. Five spontaneous experimental spaces were opened on this former vegetable market street, including the gallery YK art space and ifa²gallery, with more 30 exhibitions and performances, and 50 artists shown in one year.
Early 2011, after exhibiting a series of her personal signed works and some of her created fictitious artists, ifa gallery
started to represent Zane Mellupe.
Summer 2011, Mellupe had a significative personal exhibition, "in memory of the perfect wife", where she opens her memories with a touch of fiction to the viewers, through installations and mixed-media artworks.
2008 - "Shanghai Lights", Photography Museum of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
2005 - "Also in China", House of United Nations, Riga, Latvia
2011 - "15 days without You", ifa gallery, Shanghai, China
2011 - "Enquête n°1", artparis+guests, ifa gallery booth, Paris, France
2011 - "The Birth of a myth - part II - Art in a state of Alertness", YK Art Space, Shanghai, China
2010 - "The birth of a myth - part I", YK Art Space, Shanghai, China
2010 - "Come, take a walk with me", Yongkang Lu Art, Shanghai, China
2010 - "Police and Her", ifa gallery, Shanghai, China
2010 - "Asphalte Concrete", YK Art Space, Shanghai, China
2010 - "Absolute 0:00", Island 6 arts center, ; Shanghai, China
2010 - "Fakirs", Island 6 arts center, Shanghai, China
2009 - "Placebo", Island 6 arts center, Shanghai, China
2009 - “30 Degrees”, Island 6 arts center & Studio Rouge, Shanghai, China
2009 - “Synesthesia”, Island 6 arts center, Shanghai, China
2009 - “Individual: New Art from Beyond Beijing”, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China
2009 - “LEDs animés”, Gallery Twenty-One, Paris, France
2009 - “artparis 09” (Art Fair), Gallery Loft & Gallery Twenty-One Paris, France
2009 - “The Artist Died Yesterday”, Island 6 arts center, Shanghai, China
2008 - “Automata”, Island 6 & ifa gallery, Shanghai, China
2008 - “Urban Lust”, Island 6 & ifa gallery, Shanghai, China
2008 - “Fernelmont Contemporary Art, second edition” Festival Fernelmont, Castle of Fenelmont, Belgium
2008 - “Quadrare il Cerchio” (Squaring the Circle), Allegra Ravizza Art Project, Milano, Italy
2008 - “Clouds of Crowds”, Island 6 arts center, Shanghai, China
2008 - Roma Contemporary Art Fair, Manaart Roma, Italy
2008 - “Zero Gravity”, Sun Gallery, Shanghai, China
2007 - “PlugIT”, Blue Lotus Gallery, Hong-Kong
2007 - "Made in Shanghai", Island 6 arts center, Shanghai, China
2007 - Festival Art Continu, Morocco
2007 - “Made in China", Island 6 arts center, Shanghai, China
2007 - “PlugIT”, Island 6 arts center, Shanghai, China
2006 - “Life Circle”, LCC, London, UK
2006 - Cable street & the art pavillion (70th Anniversary of the Battle of Cable St), London, UK
Artist
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and independent curator
Curator
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, working and living in Shanghai
Shanghai
Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...
(China
China
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).
Early life and career
After extending experience and studies about photography in Europe and China, Mellupe dedicated her energy in an artists collective Liu DaoLiu Dao
Liu Dao Liu Dao Liu Dao (a Pinyin phrase meaning "island number 6" - , is an international multidisciplinary art collective based in Shanghai, China. Liu Dao was founded in 2006 by island6 Arts Center under the direction of French curator Thomas Charvériat. Liu Dao is an electronic art group...
, she co-founded at island6 arts center in Shanghai, where she was also the creative director (2007-2010). During these years, Mellupe developed new techniques and created a large number of mixed-media works with the collective and under the name of created fictitious artists.
Early 2010, Zane Mellupe started to collaborate with Alexis Kouzmine-Karavaïeff to curate exhibitions at ifa gallery
Ifa gallery
ifa gallery is a contemporary art gallery in Shanghai, China. The name ifa comes from Chinese 艺 and 法 , meaning methods of art, with the name in English taking a similar pronunciation: ....
in Shanghai.
At the mean time, Mellupe created Yongkang Lu Art, a community contemporary art concept, located on the east side of Yongkang street in Shanghai. Five spontaneous experimental spaces were opened on this former vegetable market street, including the gallery YK art space and ifa²gallery, with more 30 exhibitions and performances, and 50 artists shown in one year.
Early 2011, after exhibiting a series of her personal signed works and some of her created fictitious artists, ifa gallery
Ifa gallery
ifa gallery is a contemporary art gallery in Shanghai, China. The name ifa comes from Chinese 艺 and 法 , meaning methods of art, with the name in English taking a similar pronunciation: ....
started to represent Zane Mellupe.
Summer 2011, Mellupe had a significative personal exhibition, "in memory of the perfect wife", where she opens her memories with a touch of fiction to the viewers, through installations and mixed-media artworks.
Solo Exhibitions
2011 - "in memory of the perfect wife", ifa gallery, Shanghai, China2008 - "Shanghai Lights", Photography Museum of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
2005 - "Also in China", House of United Nations, Riga, Latvia
Group Exhibitions
2011 - "the hell. the heaven. on the way. in between.", ifa gallery, Shanghai, China2011 - "15 days without You", ifa gallery, Shanghai, China
2011 - "Enquête n°1", artparis+guests, ifa gallery booth, Paris, France
2011 - "The Birth of a myth - part II - Art in a state of Alertness", YK Art Space, Shanghai, China
2010 - "The birth of a myth - part I", YK Art Space, Shanghai, China
2010 - "Come, take a walk with me", Yongkang Lu Art, Shanghai, China
2010 - "Police and Her", ifa gallery, Shanghai, China
2010 - "Asphalte Concrete", YK Art Space, Shanghai, China
2010 - "Absolute 0:00", Island 6 arts center, ; Shanghai, China
2010 - "Fakirs", Island 6 arts center, Shanghai, China
2009 - "Placebo", Island 6 arts center, Shanghai, China
2009 - “30 Degrees”, Island 6 arts center & Studio Rouge, Shanghai, China
2009 - “Synesthesia”, Island 6 arts center, Shanghai, China
2009 - “Individual: New Art from Beyond Beijing”, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China
2009 - “LEDs animés”, Gallery Twenty-One, Paris, France
2009 - “artparis 09” (Art Fair), Gallery Loft & Gallery Twenty-One Paris, France
2009 - “The Artist Died Yesterday”, Island 6 arts center, Shanghai, China
2008 - “Automata”, Island 6 & ifa gallery, Shanghai, China
2008 - “Urban Lust”, Island 6 & ifa gallery, Shanghai, China
2008 - “Fernelmont Contemporary Art, second edition” Festival Fernelmont, Castle of Fenelmont, Belgium
2008 - “Quadrare il Cerchio” (Squaring the Circle), Allegra Ravizza Art Project, Milano, Italy
2008 - “Clouds of Crowds”, Island 6 arts center, Shanghai, China
2008 - Roma Contemporary Art Fair, Manaart Roma, Italy
2008 - “Zero Gravity”, Sun Gallery, Shanghai, China
2007 - “PlugIT”, Blue Lotus Gallery, Hong-Kong
2007 - "Made in Shanghai", Island 6 arts center, Shanghai, China
2007 - Festival Art Continu, Morocco
2007 - “Made in China", Island 6 arts center, Shanghai, China
2007 - “PlugIT”, Island 6 arts center, Shanghai, China
2006 - “Life Circle”, LCC, London, UK
2006 - Cable street & the art pavillion (70th Anniversary of the Battle of Cable St), London, UK
External links
- Zane Mellupe official website
- Zane Mellupe at ifa gallery
- Yongkang Lu Art, Zane Mellupe experimental spaces project in Shanghai