Ada Mee


Ada Mee is a German artist acting in Heidelberg and expressing her art in various techniques.

Life

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, the Heidelberger Forum für Kunst and the Kunsthöfle Gallery in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt.

Function, quote and work

Painting

With acrylic paint, watercolour, gouache, pencil, Indian ink on wood, card and various paper types.

Staged photo art

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.

Staged conceptual art

Heavy opposed intellectual worlds collide in her re-enacted stagings, phantasies mixed with realities which often illustrate the shattering truth.
  1. 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
  2. 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.

    V2A steel and bronze works

Recognition and promotion

International and supraregional group exhibitions