Ada Mee (born 1946, in Thuringia) is a German artist acting in Heidelberg and expressing her art in various techniques (painting, lithography, photography).
Ada Mee was born 1946 in Thuringia and lived in Jena until her escape to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1952. She grew up in Bremen, the Eifel, the Swabian Jura and in Stuttgart, where she graduated from school. She studied architecture in Karlsruhe, finishing as qualified engineer. At present she lives in Heidelberg, is married with one daughter. She is a member of the Bundesverband Bildender Künstlerinnen und Künstler (German association of fine artists), the Heidelberger Forum für Kunst (arts forum of Heidelberg) and the Kunsthöfle Gallery in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt.
Function, quote and work
I live my art mutabel, just like spring, summer, autumn and winter. Because of that I do not let myself be woven into something, neither linear, thematic nor conceptual.
With acrylic paint, watercolour, gouache, pencil, Indian ink on wood, card and various paper types.
She is calling her photo art on canvas as application art – artistic transformation and/or modification of primary structures through painting and/or digital plots. Ada Mee combines painting and her own photographs, forms and designs those on the computer, changes the shapes again, adjusts colours, paints realistic and/or digital until she can identify with her work.
Heavy opposed intellectual worlds collide in her re-enacted stagings, phantasies mixed with realities which often illustrate the shattering truth.
- The miracle of Pujiang has deeply touched many people. During his birth on a squat toilet, the small Chinese boy slipped into a waste-pipe and was then saved by firemen in a dramatic rescue mission after several hours. Real event of May 2013
- We can see bodies which are embellished and those which are repaired with artificial limbs and artistic suspension struts. On the other hand, bodies cannot be seen anymore. Due to epidemics like ebola or multiple resistant germs they are forced into protective gears, for not paying with their own lives when helping the ill.
2013: election for http://www.heise-kunstpreis.de/ 2014
2009: promotion by Stiftungen Landesbank-Baden-Württemberg, Catalogue: Lithographien vom Stein
2008: promotion by Stiftungen Landesbank-Baden-Württemberg, Catalogue: Maroc mon amour. 1996, Malerei zur Ausstellung im Presseclub Bonn
2006: professional recognition “UnFAIRblümt“, Haus der Demokratie und Menschenrechte, Berlin
2006: art prize of the county Alzey-Worms
2005: election for the graphical calendar by Johann Kasper Zeus, 2006, city of Kronach
International and supraregional group exhibitions
1993: Everarts gallery, Paris
1996: Presseclub Bonn, Maroc mon amour
2002, 1998: Foire Internationale Lac Luxembourg, Salon de Printemps, Letzeburger Artisten Center
2011, 2008, 2006, 2004, 1999: Wilhelm–Fabry–Museum Hilden
2013, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000: Mini Print International de Cadaques Spain
2000: City Museum Halle an der Saale, Halle und das Salz der Erde
2000: City Museum Pforzheim, Drogen
2014, 2006, 2002: Miniatur International Fürstenwalde, Spree
2004: international Licher photography prize
2005: Women Museum Bonn
2005: Museum van Bommeln van Dam, Venlo, Niederlande
2015, 2007, 2005: Kunstforum Rheinbach '99 e. V., Kunst auf dem Campus
2007: Castle Museum city of Schwarzenberg, art und figura
2008: Third Beijing International Art Biennale China, Peking
2008: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Senckenberg-Brunnen
2012: Museum Zündorfer Wehrturm, Cologne
2014, 2013, 2012, 2009: Marler Kunststern, Marl
2014, 2013: Internationale Biennale Hamburg
1991: Villa Meixner Brühl, collection of the KulturForums Europa, Schicksale
1992: town hall Heilbronn, Steindrucke
1993: Mettnau-Radolfzell, Menschen – Landschaften
1997: Adelfinger Gallery, Lampertheim, Gemalt-Gedruckt-Geformt
1999: Cas Karlsruhe, Positiv
2007: Bad Bergzaberner KunstSaison
2010: Galerie Kunsthöfle, Stuttgart, code 08-21
2011: 6th Bergzabener KunstSaison at the castle of the dukes of Zweibrücken
2013: Museum für ostdeutsche und osteuropäische Kunst, Sank Julian
2015: Galerie Kunsthöfle, Stuttgart, Mensch wer bist du?
2015: Inszenierung der Realität, Heidelberger Forum für Kunst
2015: Sportlich, Heidelberger Forum für Kunst
2014: Illustrierte Gedichte von Christian-Morgenstern, Werder (Havel)
2013: Wellen, QQTec, Hilden
2013: Heimat, Heise-Kunstpreis-Kalender 2014, alte Feuerwache, Dessau
2012: genug ist genug, Heidelberger Forum für Kunst
2012: Wertschöpfung, Galerie Kunsthöfle, Stuttgart
2010: Nachts, Heidelberger Forum für Kunst
2009: Visionen, 10. Kunstkreuz Berlin-Kreuzberg
2008: Die Freiheit, die ich meine, 9. KunstKreuz Berlin-Friedrichshain
2008: SpielArt, Landesausstellung des Bundesverbandes Bildender Künstler
2008: Zirkus, VIII. Jesteburger Kunstwoche
2008: Im Namen der Lippischen Rose, Kunst- und Designpreis
2007: Überzeichnet, Heidelberger Forum für Kunst
2006: Schaufenster à la Art, Kunstpreis des Landkreises Alzey-Worms
2006: Die Kunst des Alterns, Caritas Altenhilfe, Berlin
2006: Bewegung, Dynamik und Kraft, Kunstpreis Wesseling
2006: wie die sachen oft querre gehen, Kunstpreis der Stadt Augsburg
2005: Johann Kasper Zeus-Kalender 2006, Kronach
2005: Nibelungenlied, AmtsHausGalerie, Stadt Freudenberg
2004: Grenzfälle, VI. Kunstwoche Jesteburg
2004: Zeitgenössische bildende Kunst, Salzburg
2002: Reaktion-Bilder, Hermann Hesse Calw International
2002: Literarischer Simrock-Freiligrath-Weg, Bad Honnef
2001: Welde Galerie, Schwetzingen
2001: Kunst im Burgrafiat, Stadt Alzey
2000: Jubiläumsbilder, Galerie der Sparkasse Karlsruhe
2000: Sichtweisen, Öhringer Schloss, Große Kreisstadt Öhringen
2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2007: Heidelberger Forum für Kunst
