Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum vitae Education 1994-1998 Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, Diplom für Malerei u. Grafik 09.1989 – 06.1991Munson-Williams-Proctor, Institute of Art, Utica, New York 20.04.2020-09.08.2020 Composition through the ages, Stanford Department of Music. Online 2021 Berklee School of Music, Copyright and Music Management. Online Exhibitions and Performances Selected 2026 Unfinished Reality China-Europe Media Art Exchange,United Art Museum10.04.2026 Wuhan China Techno Worlds 21.03.2026 Shanghai, China [COS] 2025 Techno Worlds 06.12.–So., 29.03.2026 MACA Art Center, Beijing, C UTOPIA Villa Franz von Stück, exhibition 17.10.2025 – 15.03.2026 Munich,DE [COS] Antenna in the Mud as part of Audio Ghosts SP_CE for sound, sound and research, Vienna, A Antenna in the Mud as part of a conference organised by LARGE, the Artistic Research department at AVU, Prague. CZE 2024 Shut up and Listen Festival, exhibition and performance 10.102024 A Re Composed Festival. 25.10.2024 Psychoelastic Soundbathers Performance, Sound. Deep See 'n Light Listening, 28 & 29.06.2024 Angewandte Festival. TechnoWorlds Dresden 08.06.2024 [COS] Nacht Der Luziden Träume 12.4.2024 Kammerspiele München, live performance Odeon Theater Wien 30.04.2024 Performance mit Marillis Jagsch 2023 MEATigation 02.15-01.05.23 Trondheim National Museum, Trondheim, Norway 50 years of NEU Michael Rother, celebration 2022.10.26 Silent Green Berlin DE[COS] Schwabinggrad Gallery, München, solo exhibition. 2022 S.P.A.R.K Sound sculpture, KulturRegion Stuttgart, Literaturmuseum der Moderne, Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach.DE Cover Art, 02. Juli bis 16. October 2022, Galerie Stihl, Weiblingen.[COS] TechnoWorlds, exhibition curated by Justin Hoffman, presented by Goethe Institute [COS] 2021 Look! Revelations on Art and Fashion 04.09.21– 06.03.2022 Marta-Herford Museum Global Angst, Parade, 29.10 – 31.10 München [COS] Beat the System Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst Aachen, 2021/2022 2020 Pandemic Cacophony. 8 channel immersive sound piece. Corona Sound System, Kunstverein in Hamburg, DE ‘Dance Party’ with Cecilia Candia, Orkun Tunc and Nikolas Müller. Performance and video piece of the same title. Temporary Gallery, Cologne, DE The Opposite of Fatalism, movement and spoken word performance with Claire Filmon and Jeremiah Day, Le Centre d’art Le Lait Albi, FR [COS] 2019 The Beat, heartbeat performance with Heja Netirk for HiVentilation, Kunstverein Hamburger Bahnhof, Hamburg, DE Secret Lifestyles of the Plants: A Bouquet Reading, book reading on lichen, sound performance, feedback, playing rocks with Mark von Schlegell, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, DE A Copycacophony, performance and telematic lecture for “Right the Right” copyright symposium at HKW, Berlin, DE [COS] Noise Bodies Interior, performance Exhibition Up to and Including Limits: After Carolee Schneemann” Curated by Sabine Breitwieser, Muzeum Susch, CH [COS] 2018 OnAir, daily half-hour sound piece, Galerie Gold+Beton, Ebertplatz Köln, DE 2017 Beirut Art Center, performance and collaboration with Jana Salah, Beirut, LB Solo representation at Art Cologne with Galerie Gisela Clement, Cetacea, Sound Composition, Schauspiel Köln Britney, Cologne, DE We Make Waves festival, Berlin, DE [COS] 2016 Robot Love 26.11.2016 sound performance Schauspiel Köln University of Craft Action Thought, Galerie Clement /Schneider, Bonn, D. 20 Years Flying, with Ari Benjamin Meyers, Volksbühne, Berlin, DE [COS] ‘Chicks on Speed present Voodoo Chanel’ sound performance Café Oto, London, UK 2015 Chicks on Speed Artformance, "The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk", National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, AUS (06.02.2015) Art-workers, a collaboration with performance artists in Singapore, video and performance piece. National University, Singapore, Centre of Contemporary Art, Gillman Barracks, Singapore, SG [COS] Performance and exhibition opening, ArtScience Museum, Singapore, SG [CO The Future of Humanity, symposium by Lynn Hershmann Leeson, MoMA PS 1, New York, US Venice Biennale National University of Finland, FRAME, and the Finnish Pavilion May 6 2014 Datastravaganza, 401 Contemporary, Berlin, DE [COS] Wir sind Daten / We are Data, Radialsystem, Berlin, DE [COS] 2013 SCREAM, ArtSpace, Sydney & Objectifs, Singapore Biennale, SG [COS] Gigahertz Festival, presented by Peter Weibel at ZKM, Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, DE [COS] TBA-21 Art Contemporary, 55th Venice Biennale, IT [COS] Australian pavilion vernissage, 55th Venice Biennale, I 2011 Biennale of the Moving Image, Sound Installation:'The Endless Song' Mechelen, BE [COS] Cultural Workship Now! Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Bethanien, Berlin, DE [COS] Legacy, Performance, Taipei, TW [COS] La Machine du Moulin Rouge, Paris, FR [COS] 2010 Don’t Art, Fashion, Music, DCA, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland, UK [COS] 2009 Skyscraper Kate MacGarry Gallery, London Viva La Craft, lecture-performance, Craft Victoria, Melbourne, AUS [CO Made in Munich, Performance, exhibition program, Haus der Kunst, Munich, DE [COS] 21:100:100, 100 sound works by 100 artists from the 21st Century, International Arts Festival & Gertrude Contemporary Arts Spaces, Melbourne, AUS 2008 A New Line Kate MacGarry Gallery, London Art Rules, with Douglas Gordon National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, JP [COS] MoMA, New York, US [COS] 2007 Art For Sale, Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris, F Art Rules, with Douglas Gordon, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR [COS] 2006 LIVE! Installation, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR [COS] 2005 Diamonds for workers Kate MacGarry London What is Music? Performance with Mika Vainio, sound art festival, AUS Nu Music festival, Performance, sound and new music festival, Stavanger, NO [COS] 2004 Transmediale Festival, Berlin, DE [COS] 2003 John Peel Sessions, BBC Studios, London, UK [COS] 2002 Royal Festival Hall, performance collaboration with Panasonic, including Jim O’Rourke, Kim Gordon and Ikue Mori, Southbank Centre, London, UK [COS] Palais de Tokyo, Paris, exhibition. [COS] 2001/02 AUSSENDIENST Hamburg [COS] Le Printemps De SeptembreD'Toulouse, Sound Installation, Toulouse, FR Publications & writing, interviews (selected) 2018 The Middle Matter: Sound as Interstice, Q-02 Space, sound Brussels, BE 2013 Kippenberger! NO CRY: Schauspiel Köln (Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne) 2010 Don't Art Music Fashion, Dundee Contemporary Arts (Booth-Clibborn), Editions, London 2008 Master Painters (art publication) New York, US ‘Do Not Go Genitally’ an interview with Dorothy Iannone by Melissa Logan 2004 'Chicks on Speed It’s a Project' (Booth-Clibborn Editions, London) Artist Residencies 2018 Q 02 Space for Sound, Brussels. BE 2017 Moog Sound Lab, Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin, as part of SOUNDCHECK exhibition. IE [COS] 2016 Café Oto, London. UK (26.04.2016- 04.05.2016) 2015 ZKM Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe D [COS] 2014 City Gallery, Wellington, NZ [COS] Freemantle Art Center, Perth, AUS [COS] 2013 ArtSpace, Sydney, AUS [COS] MONA, Museum of New & Old Art, Hobart, Tasmania, AUS [COS] 2011 Gertrude Contemporary Arts Spaces, Melbourne, AUS 2009 50 years of feminist art, Vigo, E [COS] 2008 The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto JP [COS] 2006 Thyssen Bornesmizsa Contemporary 21 A [COS] Films 2026 Douglas Gordon x Douglas Gordon directed by Finlay Pretsell (appearance) 2021 Dance Party, Melissa E. Logan awarded Fashion in Motion at ASVOFF, Paris, FR 04.12.22 Screening Indie Film Fest, Hollywood, CA. USA 2014 Kippenberger, Christian Jankowski (performance) music composition 2013 Golden Gang, with special appearance by Richard Bell [COS] 2007 Hölle Hamburg by Peter Ott and Ted Gaier (appearance as actress) 2004 Visitors, co-directed with Deborah Schamoni, performed and scored the 20-minute film, produced by Deitch Projects, New York, US [COS] Press Japan Interview: https://diskunion.net/clubt/ct/news/article/0/104577 Vogue Italia Q&A https://www.vogue.it/news/article/musica-inverno-2022-singoli-nuovi-album-da-ascoltare Stayinart Edition: 1.21 PIONEERING, 4-page feature on Chicks on Speed: https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/31263/the-scorpion-sting/ An Other Mag: https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/3735/chicks-on-speed-s-melissa-logan-on-digital-anxiety https://www.waz-online.de/Wolfsburg/Stadt-Wolfsburg Chicks-On-Speed-als-Hoehepunkt: https://prinz.de/hamburg/artikel/73985-ein-mittagessen-mit-melissa Frieze Art 2007 https://www.frieze.com/article/chicks-speed Melissa E. Logan and Chicks on Speed Artworks are in the collections (selected) Agustin Sanchez Vidal, Madrid ES Dr. Stephanie Bohn, Bonn, DE Museum für Kommunikation Frankfurt, DE Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, NZ TBA-21 Vienna, AT Galerie Gisela Clement Mel E. Logan is represented by Galerie Gisela Clement in Bonn, DE http://www.galerie-clement.de/kuenstler/melissa-logan/ Gallery Milani Chicks on Speed are represented by Gallery Milani in Brisbane, AU http://www.milanigallery.com.au/artist/chicks-speed
