Toni Meyer
Toni Meyer (Viva Antonia Meyer *1988 in Frankfurt am Main) lives and works in Munich and Berlin. Her multimedia work includes photography, text, performance and video. She uses digital technology as a tool to transform what she perceives and counters the challenges of today‘s society, in particular environmental issues and consumer culture in the digital age, sometimes with humorous exaggerations, sometimes with dystopian ideas for the future.
“Anyone who knows the feeling of longing for the big city will quickly become addicted to Toni Meyer’s City Collages. Why is obvious: Life is just a party, and parties weren’t meant to last. The transience of the moment oozes from the pores and pixels of the images. Just like every travel experience that is too good to be true and all too soon will be a thing of the past forever. So we dream ourselves on, hoping for renewed fulfillment: next to the city … let’s leave that to Toni Meyer.” (Elena Dellasega)
CITY COLLAGE SERIES „SÃO PAULO“ PUBLISHED IN FLANEUR MAGAZINE
issue 7, São Paulo, 2018
Photo collages that display a virtual reality of São Paulo. From an outsider’s perspective. Viva Meyer likes big cities. And coincidences: places, people and stories belong together without knowing it. Only until they find themselves in simple collages. On Treze de Maio Viva found the stories of São Paulo during carnival season. The pictures show the street between fiction and reality. They have never actually been taken like this, but give a glance of the city in its multiplicity. Viva works as a photographer and video artist. She is currently based in Berlin, but tries to collage as many cities as she can.
Publications
CV
Goldsmiths College, London (2012–2013)
ICP International Center of Photography, New York (2011)
Universität der Künste, Berlin (2008–2011)
Blütenlese, Paper Positions Vienna, Austria (GS)
Suspension of Disbelief 2, Galerie 3AP, Düsseldorf (GS)
stop making sense, a publik, Zurich (S)
Wohnung Lauxtermann Vol. 7, Galerie 3AP, Düsseldorf (GS)
The line is never quite obedient, Ehemalige Schalterhalle der Commerzbank, Frankfurt/Main (GS)
Grow (Screening), Soho East Gallery, Berlin
Wohnung Lauxtermann, Galerie 3AP, Düsseldorf (Project)
Grow (we flowers were here always), Soho East Gallery, Berlin (Screening)
Collage City Portraits, Galerie 3AP, Düsseldorf, (S)
Grow (we flowers were here always), Plainhead, NEU Workshop, München (Screening, Concert)
Overgrown – opera of the nervous system, Galerie 3AP, Düsseldorf (GS)
Doves & Divers, Mañana Bold, Frankfurt a.M. (Duo)
Lazy Eye, Spoiler Zone, Berlin (GS)
Lichtaktion/ Kunstareal, München (Performance)
prêt-à-parler by Aileen Treusch (Online-Exhibition)
I Cleaned Out My Wardrobe (Online-Exhibition)
Making Crises Visible, Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt (GS)
Unsought Normalities, Desired Landscapes, Athen (GS)
Baby, you’re a rich man, too, München, (GS)
Großstadt, Potsdamer 158, Berlin, (GS)
Studio funding, City of Munich (2023–2026)
Young Art and New Paths (Bavarian State Ministry for Science and Art), scholarship program of the Free State of Bavaria, Munich (2022)
Department of Arts and Culture, City of Munich, project funding, Munich (2021)
Department for Culture, City of Frankfurt, project funding, Frankfurt / Main (2020)
University of Art and Design Offenbach (HfG Offenbach), project funding, Offenbach / Main (2020)
Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (Member of the Leibniz Association), project funding, Frankfurt / Main (2020)
Exhibitions
suspension of disbelief 2
suspension of disbelief 2
suspension of disbelief 2
suspension of disbelief 2
suspension of disbelief 2
suspension of disbelief 2
suspension of disbelief 2
suspension of disbelief 2
suspension of disbelief 2
suspension of disbelief 2
WOHNUNG
LAUXTERMANN
Vol. 7
Joschua Yesni Arnaut, Roberto Barbosa, Joseph Beuys, Willi Bucher, Felix Anatol Findeiß, Jacqueline Hen, Sonja Heim, Steffen Jopp, Nadine Karl, Max Klinger, Helga Kneidl, Carolin Liebl & Nikolas Schmid-Pfähler, Ulrike Markus, Toni Meyer, Julie Mia, Philipp Naujoks, Miriam Schenkirz, Robert Schittko, Wayne Thiebaud, Catharina Szonn, Ellen Wagner, Lara Werth, Sonja Yakovleva
with further objects and contributions by Alex Leo Freier, Monster Mansion, Aleksandra Mir & Tim Griffin
opera of the nervous system
News
Participation: Paper Positions Vienna
We were delighted to take part in the second edition of Paper Positions Vienna, following the fair’s debut last year.
At the historic Semperdepot – once a production site for monumental stage sets – Galerie 3AP presented its curated format BLÜTENLESE. Over the course of the fair, three alternating shows unfolded, each focusing on a concise selection of works in drawing, photography, and etching.
upcoming: participation at Paper Positions Vienna
13. – 16. November, Semper Depot | Booth 18
now open: Julian Heuser, Nadine Karl, Toni Meyer, Julie Mia, and Lara Werth „Suspension of Disbelief 2“
Suspension of Disbelief 2 continues the exploration of perception, illusion, and emotional projection initiated in July 2025 through the work of Julian Heuser, expanding the conceptual framework into a polyphonic group exhibition marking the season’s opening. Curated by Aileen Treusch, the show brings together works who examine and broaden the theme from diverse artistic viewpoints.
upcoming: participation at DC Open
We are excited to announce our participation at DC Open 2025 with the upcoming group exhibition Suspension of disbelief II at our Düsseldorf location. The show features works by Julian Heuser, Nadine Karl, Toni Meyer, Julie Mia and Lara Werth.
upcoming: solo exhibition by Toni Meyer at a publik in Zürich
We are happy to announce „stop making sense“, an upcoming solo exhibition by Toni Meyer at a publik in Zürich.
exhibition opening on 22 november 2024, 5 – 8 pm, Geroldstrasse 11, 8005 Zurich, Switzerland (open by appointment)
Collage City Portraits by Toni Meyer on view
temporary exhibition at NEUE KAISER, Frankfurt am Main 2024
„Subverting norms constructing narrative scenarios“
Wohnung Lauxtermann
The fluid exhibition is open for visitors for the fifth and last time this year until December 15th.
The line is never quite obedient
Mit Werken von Jacqueline Hen, Toni Meyer, Philipp Naujoks, Lara Werth
Kuratiert von Aileen Treusch für Cartier Northern Europe, ehemalige Schalterhalle der Commerzbank, Frankfurt (Neue Kaiser), Juli 2023.
press: Rheinische Post, 28.06.2023
„Mit der Präsentation der Arbeiten des Künstlers und Architekten Felix Anatol Findeiß wird Aileen Treusch ihrem eigenen Anspruch gerecht. Ein von ihr kuratiertes Projekt, ein Erweiterungsbau für die Metropolitan School in Frankfurt, macht mit einer künstlerischen Idee von Felix Findeiß und Stefan Knauf von sich reden. Es geht um einen begrünten Vorhang. Das Projekt ist als temporäre Fassadeninstallation in der Galerie zu sehen. „Kunst am Bau kann mehr als nur ästhetisch gefallen. Sie verändert den Blickwinkel.“
