Melina Wilson
Melina Wilson
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Melina Wilson is a Zurich-based graphic designer who shares a studio practice with Martin Stoecklin, collaborates with Boris Siemaszko on the research project JLG Locations and holds degrees from Werkplaats Typografie (MA, then teaching assistant) and ECAL (BA). She’s occasionally seen dusting off the archives of a major corporation, drifting through post-Soviet states, sunbathing in converted sanatoriums, commuting between Maputo and Hollywood, or floating on Lake Geneva.

Having, for some obscure reason, taken graphic design as her weapon of choice to engage with the world, but also never quite conforming to the terms of the field, she has developed a broader practice revolving around research, editing and language, borrowing the methods of poetic investigators and gentle stalkers. Framing each of her works as a footnote to the previous, or a draft of the next, she rejoices each time the categorical divide between content and form comes undone.

Contact:
Badenerstrasse 281, 8003 Zürich
mail@melinawilson.ch

Latest:
Talk at HfG Karlsruhe
The Rule of Counterpoint, workshop at HfG Karlsruhe
Theory jury at HKB
Le Montage vient en premier, Zabriskie Point, Geneva
Sister Küngold and the Pale Knight, voice-over for a sound piece by Marc Jauss, Saalhof 1123, Alsace
Unearthing Traces, Denise Bertschi, Julien Lafontaine Carboni, and Nitin Bathla (eds.), EPFL Press, Lausanne / CAN Centre d'Art Neuchâtel
Architecture in Islamic Countries, Helen Thomas (ed.), series source material, gta Verlag, Zurich
Talk at ECAL Open Day
Talk at the Belarusian Youth Hub, Warsaw
Talk at Parallel-Parallel, Zurich
“La Région du Léman: Lac et Montagnes”, in: Octopus of Offshoots, Oliver Boulton and Adriann Van Leuven (eds.), Werkplaats Typografie
“Lausanne—Geneva—Los Angeles. On reverse location scouting: walking through Jean-Luc Godard’s Swiss films”, in: What life could be / the ambivalence of success, Rob Hamelijnck and Nienke Terpsma, edition fink, Zurich
The Story, self-published. Available at WT shop and After 8 books

© Photos: Yauhen Attsetski, Alan Dimmick, Tabea Feuerstein, Malin Gewinner, Gian-Reto Gredig, Franziska Schulz, Moritz Schermbach, Martin Stoecklin, Jeanne Tullen
© 2024 Melina Wilson

Melina Wilson is a Zurich-based graphic designer who shares a studio practice with Martin Stoecklin, collaborates with Boris Siemaszko on the research project JLG Locations and holds degrees from Werkplaats Typografie (MA, then teaching assistant) and ECAL (BA). She’s occasionally seen dusting off the archives of a major corporation, drifting through post-Soviet states, sunbathing in converted sanatoriums, commuting between Maputo and Hollywood, or floating on Lake Geneva.

Having, for some obscure reason, taken graphic design as her weapon of choice to engage with the world, but also never quite conforming to the terms of the field, she has developed a broader practice revolving around research, editing and language, borrowing the methods of poetic investigators and gentle stalkers. Framing each of her works as a footnote to the previous, or a draft of the next, she rejoices each time the categorical divide between content and form comes undone.

Contact:
Badenerstrasse 281, 8003 Zürich
mail@melinawilson.ch

Latest:
Talk at HfG Karlsruhe
The Rule of Counterpoint, workshop at HfG Karlsruhe
Theory jury at HKB
Le Montage vient en premier, Zabriskie Point, Geneva
Sister Küngold and the Pale Knight, voice-over for a sound piece by Marc Jauss, Saalhof 1123, Alsace
Unearthing Traces, Denise Bertschi, Julien Lafontaine Carboni, and Nitin Bathla (eds.), EPFL Press, Lausanne / CAN Centre d'Art Neuchâtel
Architecture in Islamic Countries, Helen Thomas (ed.), series source material, gta Verlag, Zurich
Talk at ECAL Open Day
Talk at the Belarusian Youth Hub, Warsaw
Talk at Parallel-Parallel, Zurich
“La Région du Léman: Lac et Montagnes”, in: Octopus of Offshoots, Oliver Boulton and Adriann Van Leuven (eds.), Werkplaats Typografie
“Lausanne—Geneva—Los Angeles. On reverse location scouting: walking through Jean-Luc Godard’s Swiss films”, in: What life could be / the ambivalence of success, Rob Hamelijnck and Nienke Terpsma, edition fink, Zurich
The Story, self-published. Available at WT shop and After 8 books

© Photos: Yauhen Attsetski, Alan Dimmick, Tabea Feuerstein, Malin Gewinner, Gian-Reto Gredig, Franziska Schulz, Moritz Schermbach, Martin Stoecklin, Jeanne Tullen
© 2024 Melina Wilson