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JAN MELKA
1995
French
Lives and works: Paris, France
Info
Jan Malka is a French-American visual artist, lives and works in Paris, France.
Since September 2015, she has devoted herself to artistic research, on the edge of Abstract Expressionism, by creating her own fitions with reconstructed figures.
CV
Solo Exhibition
Group Exhibition
Award - Residency
Solo Exhibition
2023
_ "The Big Wave", Colbo-Nyc gallery, Paris, Fr
2022
_ "Segunda Virginidad", Bikini Wax gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
_ Jan Melka - live performance, invité par Valette, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Fr
2021
_ "Body Building", Bubenberg gallery, Paris, Fr
_ "Le Bruit des Murs", Ground Effect gallery, Paris, Fr
2020
_ "Jan melka, Imaginary Issue", Exhbition Magazine, Paris, Fr
2019
_ "N’oublie pas de respirer", The Window gallery, Paris, Fr
_ "Jan Melka for Costume Nationale", The Lobby, Tokyo, Japan
_ "Busy Bodies", Michael Bargo gallery, New-York, NY, USA
_ "Older", Plate gallery, Paris, Fr
2020
_ "Something was here", live performance and installation, Poush, Clichy, Fr
_ "Carte blanche" - live performance and installation, invited by Valette, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Fr
2021
_ "Robes-Tableaux", with JCDC, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Fr
2023
_ "Puntos en el mapa", Caleta gallery, Cdmx, Mexico, February
2022
_ "Kidz", 35-37 gallery, Paris, Fr
_ "Feu", See Maris gallery, Paris, Fr
_ "Garage Band", Hatch gallery, Paris, Fr
_ "Miscellanées, à l’Origine des arts", Sebastien Lepeuve gallery, Clichy, Fr
2021
_ Group Show, Iawt gallery, Paris, Fr
_ "Synesthesia", Paul Iverno gallery, Paris, Fr
_ "Robes-Tableaux", with JCDC, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Fr
_ "La Total ‘sumer get together’", Galleria Continua, Paris, Fr
_ "So Close II", Guido Romero Pierini gallery, Paris, Fr
_ "Flexistock", La Wonder, Clichy, Fr
_ "Fragments", Archives Album, Paris, Fr
2020
_ "Drawing a blank", Ben Broom Drabl, Paris, Fr
_ "So Close", Guido Romero Pierini gallery, Paris, Fr
_ "Show of Support", Drabl, Paris, Fr
_ For Your Eyes Only, Bubenberg gallery, Paris, Fr
_ "Let Us In -3", Sebastien Lepeuve gallery, Clichy, Fr
_ "Casa-Pixan 1", Casa-Pixan, Cdmx, Mexico
2019
_ "L’experience par le corps", Silencio Club, Paris, Fr
_ "Labatut launch", Joseph gallery, Paris, Fr
2023
_ 2 months residency, Remi Bragard space ‘Bruit de Fond’, Marseille, Fr, July to August
_ 3 months residency, Jeanne Barret, Marseille, Fr, Avril to June
_ 2 months residency, Caleta gallery, Cdmx, Mexico, January to March
2022
_ 2 months residency, Caleta gallery, Cdmx, Marseille, March to April
Publications
2023
_ ‘Les odeurs fantomes’, cover + artworks, Cara Magazine, June
2020
_ ‘Segunda Virginidad’, Fernanda Ballesteros, cover + artworks, Edition Kindle
_ ‘Vitraux’, cover + artworks, Exhbition Magazine
_ ‘Oeuvres à 4 mains’, Jan melka X Felipe Oliveira Baptista, Exhbition Magazine
_ ‘Mercado Sonora’, artworks, Leaf Magazine
2019
_ ‘But all of a sudden you become this repulsive being’, artworks, Lula Magazine
_ ‘L’amour’, cover + artworks + interview, The Drawer
_ ‘À Rebours’ réédition de J.-K. Huysmans, cover + artworks, Éditions L’Empyrée
_ ‘Embracing Chaos’, artwoks + interview, Bound Magazine
Works
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