Adelheid Mers
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Adelheid Mers (born 1960, Düsseldorf) is a German visual artist, Professor, and the Chair of the Department of Arts Administration and Policy [1] at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.[2] As an artist, Mers works through Performative Diagrammatics, a practice that includes elements of installation, facilitation with publics, and video.[3] Her research draws on close work with others, exploring arts ecologies, and knowing differently, or epistemic diversity. Work takes place nationally and internationally, for example in residency, conference and exhibition settings.
Mers received an MFA in 1986 from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany. She studied with Tony Cragg, Klaus Rinke, Günther Uecker and did course work in German Literature, Linguistics, Philosophy, Pedagogy, Didactics, Philosophy at University of Düsseldorf, University of Cologne, Germany. Mers continued her studies in 1989-1990 at the University of Chicago where she was a student at large, Graduate School, Committee on the Visual Arts, in association with a grant from the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service).
Interviews
Editorial projects
- Mers, Adelheid and Quiroz, Daniel Jimenez. Editors. 2021. "For a New Gentleness". With essays by Maria Iñigo Clavo and Benvenuto Chavajay Ixtetelá, Alejandro Ponce de León, Işıl Eğrikavuk, Tyanif Rico Rodríguez on Manuela Infante, and Juan Pablo Pacheco Bejarano. CSPA Quarterly, Center for Sustainable Practices in the Arts. Vol 33. (print and online)[7]
- 2009 editor, "Useful Pictures", Whitewalls (distributed through University of Chicago Press) [8]