Antje Meichsner

Antje Meichsner / Shannon Soundquist (based in Dresden, Germany) is a middle european multidisciplinary artist working conceptually with sound, film, text, graphics and typography.

In terms of content, she deals with the role of the body in society and which political discourses cross the individual. And how the individual crosses the landscape. Antje Meichsner has a particular focus on people who live in Saxon Switzerland. She has been conducting artistic research on this region since 2020 and has interviewed democratically minded people from there who grew up under the dominance of neo-Nazis. This has resulted in an essay film, a sound installation and radio feature (Deutschlandfunk, SWR). She has remixed the old local legends of the Lilienstein into a story and turned them into an experimental-narrative out-of-genre film.

At the moment she does artistic research about the invisibility of the local slavian heritage in German history and the suppression of the Sorbian language.

Her film works and musical compositions are cinematic, dark, noisy, non-tonal and conceptual. Their research question on sound is: How can the body be directly involved in composing electronic music? Her graphic work is created from digital mistakes and photos, which she transfers into the analogue world as screen prints. She makes conceptual music for theatre and contemporary dance.

Date of residency: 13. 5 – 31. 5. 2025

RESIDENCY PROJECT
„Relaxation music for edgy people“

For the Rockefeller and MeetFactory residency, Antje Meichsner will work on „Relaxation music for edgy people“. That means, she will create audio works and compositions specifically for the underwater sound system of the saltwater pool of the spa in Bad Schandau.

Her research questions are:
Which frequencies have a different effect under water, are more nerve breaking or quieter than when heard in the air? How has the music to be composed so that it can be reproduced with the available resources?
How many exciters with what power and which amplifiers need to be attached to the pool? How can their sound be mixed sensibly with the existing underwater sound system?
What role does relaxation play in the reception of underwater music?
How do salt water, warmth, heat and humidity influence the recipients?
And: How can I as an artist take the recipients into consideration with my work? What are the physical conditions of relaxation and how can I support this with my audio work?

The result will be an improvised live concert at Liquid Sound Festival in Bad Schandau 2025.

EDUCATION

Antje Meichsner has a university degree in art history, communication studies and psychology. In 2023 she completed her diploma in fine arts in 2023 at the art school HfBK Dresden with Nevin Aladağ, Carsten Nicolai / Alva Noto and Nicole Vögele. At the moment she is Meisterschülerin (postgraduate) with Professor Nicole Vögele.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2025 Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, performance with artist group 1pp1

2024 „Techno Worlds“ , exhibition of Goethe-Institut and Kunsthaus Dresden, about techno culture from the perspective of visual arts, silk screen prints "Tekno Vulva“, posters "Tekno Vulva" installed around the building of robotron Kantine, and 6-channel sound installation

2024  "New Ecologies", exhibition, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, animation at the media facade of main station Chemnitz

2024 „Refugium" at Kunstverein Meißen, sound installation and silk-screen print

2023 / 2024: „Töne, Tänze, Klänge, Krach“, Municipal Gallery Dresden, curated by Carolin Quermann, silk screen prints and live-concert

2022 "Campus Kantine" at Robotron-Kantine Dresden, "Es muss weitergehen und es ist übelst geil“, ("It has to go on and it's pretty good“), 6-channel sound installation in public space, 42:00 min

2018 Multimediale Biennale Pochen Chemnitz, „13 Millionen Zustände“ text animation at the media facade of main station Chemnitz

FESTIVALS / LIVE CONCERTS

2025 Fusion Festival, Lärz, Germany, live performances

2024 festival DAVE at "Club Contraire"at Museum Archiv der Avantgarden, Dresden, A/V-live-set at in collaboration with visual artist Jana Lüttkewitte  / next to Moritz Simon Geist and Dominik Kießling

2024 ZKM Karlsruhe, live with Sound&Fury Orchestra / Prof. Stefan Prins, Hochschule für Musik Dresden

2024 Conne Island, Leipzig, guest performer at the concert of band Goldene Zitronen

2024 Liquid Sound Festival at spa Bad Schandau, with mikromission

2024 Light-Festival „Light Our Vision“, Chemnitz, text animation at the media facade of main station Chemnitz

2017 Festival CynetArt, Dersden, Hellerau, Live-concert at „Projektraum Monitor“ by class of Carsten Nicolai

PUBLICATIONS / AWARDS

artistic radio feature "Die schöne Landschaft aller" at German nationwide broadcaster Deutschlandfunk Kultur and SWR (Südwestrundfunk), 54:30 min, script, audio editing, sound design, directing, aired 16./17.11.2024, 8.2.2025

radio play „Genauso bloß anders“ ("Same but Different“) at Deutschlandfunk Kultur, 64:29 min, first aired: 17th April 2021 and later Bayerischer Rundfunk, Saarländischer Rundfunk, MDR

Verwandlung/Transformation, ed. by 1pp1, 2025, ISBN 978-3-00-081349-8

„Schnursein Maulsein“ („Being String, Being Mouth“), 2023, in collaboration with writer Lena Müller, commissioned work for Literarisches Colloquium Berlin

Dorothee Billard, Susanne Greinke: Fußnoten zur Landschaft. 2024, with silk-screen prints "Orientierung an der Himmelsrichtung“ ("Orienting to the Cardinal Directions“) and "Waldbrand“ („Wildfire“)

on Compilation „Shellac“ (PHO002) on phonon~ at, 2023, as part of the project „(Non-)Obsolete Media“ of phonon~ crew, with my composition "shellac factory 2“

Antje Meichsner, Kathrin Krahl: Viele Kämpfe und vielleicht einige Siege, 2016, ISBN 9783946541073

First Prize Hörspielfestival Berlin 2016 for audio play „Verschwendung“ („Wasting“)

RESIDENCIES

„X 3 Spaces“, March 2025, Klasdorf near Berlin, artistic research

„Ambisonics Summer School“, July 2023, Stankovice near Usti nad Labem, by crew phonon~ and Jan Löbel, composition

"Reparieren ist das Gegenteil von Hass" ("Repair is the Opposite of Hate“), May 2023, at theatre Jahrmarkttheater Bostelwiebeck near Hamburg, invited by BecklasJurado, live-concerts and sound installations

BIAS Dresden, January 2023, by Lisa Maria Baier, exhibition „Donnaholung“ with video installation and essay film

„Kollision der Künste“, Bischofswerda, September 2021, 5-channel sound installation

All information is current as of May 12, 2025