Melanie Rundel-Milzner

Artistic career
As a teenager I was interested in body shapes,
I drew many nudes with charcoal, about 2 meters high,
and various shapes modeled with different materials.

In my first job I learned how to use modeling wax and started making small sculptures out of wax.

In 2003 I began my career as a freelance artist in the “Sinworks” studio. After moving to Varel, I renamed the studio “Dangast-Bronze”.


My influences

In the beginning my work was dark and morbid and based on the Gothic world, which I felt connected to for almost two decades. I deal with physical decay and the tension between seduction and damnation.

Little by little, a field of tension emerged between the beauty and clarity of Pre-Raffelite painting on the one hand and an aesthetic of decay from the Gothic world on the one hand.

I have always been interested in mythical and spiritual figures. The longing for power over the physical is visible in my work. I studied medieval art and worked on new, contemporary variations of the Memento Mori.

Since 2003 Worked exclusively as a freelance artist. First implementations of my own designs in silver and stone.
Founding of the “Sinworks” studio, first orders from home and abroad, hand-modeled wax Sculptures hot casted in metal.

Start of dealing with spiritual aspects of art.

The first works made from bones are created.

The first small-format bronze sculptures are created.

Dealing with local traditional art and its continued impact.
Further training as a stone setter

Start of dealing with the topics of “motherhood” and “childhood”. Sculptures on these topics.

2022 Move to Varel, networking with artists in Friesland, Oldenburg, Bremen and Hamburg.

2024 First creation of an installation together with her husband Georg Milzner.

2024 Admission to the BBK Oldenburg.



Memberships:

- In the German Dance of Death Association e. V., an association of scientists and
Artists in the “Artists” section

- In the Varel art room.

Recognized professional freelance artist in the professional association of visual artists of Lower Saxony, Germany BBK

Exhibition in Düsseldorf, Institute for Hypnotherapy 2006 “Flowers and Women”

Exhibition in the Melle Vintage Car Museum, 2007 “not old”

Exhibition in Balstal, Switzerland, at the 2008 conference of the Swiss Society for Medical Hypnosis (SMSH) “Women and Goddesses”

Exhibition in the “Reblaus” (wine shop) in Münster, 2009 “Art and Wine”

Exhibition in “Mdme. Pompadour” in Münster, 2010 “Pompous”

Participation in the exhibition at the Voigtsberg Castle Museum, 2016 “Life, Lust, Suffering”

Participation in the exhibition at the Seefelder Mühle 2023 “Movement”

Participation in the exhibition in Haus Vier, Kunstraum Varel, 2023 “No topic”

Participation in the exhibition in the Varel water tower, art in the tower, 2024 “Water”

Participation in the exhibition in the artwork Varel, 2024 “900 fish for Varel”