catalogtexts and interviews
Artist interview – Paula Maß, Judit Rönsch and Louise Schmidt
On a rainy March day, sculptor Dana Meyer welcomes us to her studio located in the western part of Leipzig’s city center. A long corridor on the ground floor of the charming old building leads us to one of her main workplaces: the courtyard. Steel plates and bars are leaning and lying as scattered collections…
Searching for traces in the insect kingdom – Louise Schmidt
Cylindrical and bulbous, compressed and elongated, with and without lids – dozens of jars in various shapes and sizes form a unique collection, standing individually but also stacked in groups. Their contents are equally horrifying and fascinating: insects. Seemingly still alive, these unusual beings creep and crawl within their glass prisons. Others, lying on their…
Horse sculptures – Paula Maß
When inquiring about the recurrence and significance of specific animal species in visual arts, the horse undoubtedly remains one of the most popular motifs to this day. This popularity is evident from the earliest animal depictions: prehistoric cave paintings, which alongside bears, rhinos, or big cats, also reveal some depictions of horses. The most well-known…
Living steel – Ulrike Lade
No work of art is absolute, even if it is created by the greatest and most skilled artist: no matter how much he may master the material in which he works, he cannot change its nature. Thus, he can only produce what he intends in a certain sense and under certain conditions, and the artist…
Hunting & gathering in Dana Meyer’s work – Judit Rönsch
Dana Meyer is a collector. The artist prefers to gather the materials for her steel sculptures as found objects. She forges her animal or human figures of varying sizes and effects from discovered steel plates and leftover pieces. Analogous to this working process, the composition of the conceptual basis of her works also seems to…
Axis offset – Sonja Gatterwe
Dana Meyer’s sculptures are made of steel and if we want them to be, they are alive. It is the viewer’s task to bring them to life – our mind games make them breathe, move, exist. There is a crocodile baring its teeth, here you can hear the grunting of pigs, and then there is…
Skulptures – Catalog text by Dr. Jörk Rothamel
Dana Meyer’s sculptures are characterized by high tension, powerful dynamics and anatomical precision. They depict animals and people, individually, in groups, or occasionally in fragments. Meyer’s works are realistic and expressive, haunting in their expression, sometimes seeming metaphorical, sometimes portrait-like.