Björn MelhusDE

Björn Melhus is a German-Norwegian media artist. In his work he has developed a singular position, expanding the possibilities for a critical reception of cinema and television. His practice of fragmentation, destruction, and reconstitution of well-known figures, topics, and strategies of the mass media opens up a network of new interpretations and critical commentaries, and defines the relationship of mass media and viewer anew.

Originally rooted in an experimental film context, his work has been shown at Tate Modern and LUX in London, MoMA (MediaScope) in New York, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and exhibited at the Whitney Museum, the 8th Istanbul Biennial, Serpentine Gallery, Museum Ludwig Cologne, and ZKM Karlsruhe, among others.