Artistic and Musical Career
Michaela Melián is a German artist and musician born in Munich, Germany. Her multifaceted career spans various disciplines, including work as a painter, composer, photographer, singer, and university teacher. She studied fine arts and music, specifically the cello, in Munich and London. As a musician, she was a co-founder of the band F.S.K., touring through Europe and the USA as a singer and bassist. Her musical contributions include performing on the album Die Entstehung der Nacht by the punk band Die Goldenen Zitronen and releasing the solo album Music for a While. Her work often involves a connection between art objects and sound, frequently utilizing loops and historical narratives to create sonic collages.
Exhibitions and Notable Works
Melián's practice includes significant installations and audio works. Her project Memory Loops, which utilizes 300 sound tracks related to sites of National Socialist terror in Munich, received the Grimme Online Award SPEZIAL in 2012. Other notable audio productions include Föhrenwald, Speicher, and In A Mist. In 2016, she held a museum exhibition at the Kunstbau of the Munich Lenbachhaus, featuring the installation Electric Ladyland, which utilized music from Jacques Offenbach's opera The Tales of Hoffmann. This installation involved 16 channels of sound and large-scale drawings on fabric. Her work has been exhibited in various locations, including Berlin, London, New York, and Graz.
