Zane Mellupe

Zane Mellupe (born 1981) is a Latvian artist and independent curator, working and living in Shanghai (China).
Early life and career
After extending experience and studies about photography in Europe and China, Mellupe dedicated her energy in an artists collective Liu Dao, she co-founded at island6 arts center in Shanghai, where she was also the creative director (2007-2010). During these years, Mellupe developed new techniques and created a large number of mixed-media works with the collective and under the name of created fictitious artists.
Early 2010, Zane Mellupe started to collaborate with Alexis Kouzmine-Karavaïeff to curate exhibitions at ifa gallery in Shanghai.
At the mean time, Mellupe created Yongkang Lu Art, a community contemporary art concept, located on the east side of Yongkang street in Shanghai. Five spontaneous experimental spaces were opened on this former vegetable market street, including the gallery YK art space and , with more 30 exhibitions and performances, and 50 artists shown in one year.
Early 2011, after exhibiting a series of her personal signed works and some of her created fictitious artists, ifa gallery started to represent Zane Mellupe.
Summer 2011, Mellupe had a significative personal exhibition, "in memory of the perfect wife", where she opens her memories with a touch of fiction to the viewers, through installations and mixed-media artworks.

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