Melanie Gandyra is a freelance illustrator and artist from Hamburg, Germany based in Innsbruck, Austria. She completed her bachelor‘s and master‘s degrees in illustration at the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg. The main focus of her work is editorial, infographic and informative illustration.
Her drawing always starts on paper where she explores the shades, shapes and textures with colored pencils, ink and acylics. These drawings are often fragmented, then digitized, composed and finally fused back together, or remain analog. Expressive color worlds abduct into symmetrical, often surreal superstructures that metaphorically communicate and inform. Next to her work on paper she also realizes sculptures, murals and textile pieces.
As the inner compass of her art, she have made it her mission to draw attention to the environment, changing climate and its consequences. It‘s hard to protect what you don‘t understand. However, if we do not hurry to understand, there will be nothing left worth protecting.
Her work is about finding new solutions to the environmental state of our planet. Creative problem-solving can initiate an awareness that can go beyond simply understanding scientific facts and hopefully allow us to overcome our current state of shock and thereby initiate actions to protect nature.
Contact
Studio Parterre 6
Maximilianstraße 6
6020 Innsbruck
info@melaniegandyra.com
︎ Instagram ︎ Behance
Impressum
Represented by wildfoxrunning, Germany
Board of directors Weis raum Designforum, Innsbruck, Austria
Member of:
– Illustratoren Organisation, Germany
– VG Bildkunst, Germany
– Bildrecht, Austria
- Künstler*innen Vereinigung Tirol, Austria
Her drawing always starts on paper where she explores the shades, shapes and textures with colored pencils, ink and acylics. These drawings are often fragmented, then digitized, composed and finally fused back together, or remain analog. Expressive color worlds abduct into symmetrical, often surreal superstructures that metaphorically communicate and inform. Next to her work on paper she also realizes sculptures, murals and textile pieces.
As the inner compass of her art, she have made it her mission to draw attention to the environment, changing climate and its consequences. It‘s hard to protect what you don‘t understand. However, if we do not hurry to understand, there will be nothing left worth protecting.
Her work is about finding new solutions to the environmental state of our planet. Creative problem-solving can initiate an awareness that can go beyond simply understanding scientific facts and hopefully allow us to overcome our current state of shock and thereby initiate actions to protect nature.
Contact
Studio Parterre 6
Maximilianstraße 6
6020 Innsbruck
info@melaniegandyra.com
︎ Instagram ︎ Behance
Impressum
Represented by wildfoxrunning, Germany
Board of directors Weis raum Designforum, Innsbruck, Austria
Member of:
– Illustratoren Organisation, Germany
– VG Bildkunst, Germany
– Bildrecht, Austria
- Künstler*innen Vereinigung Tirol, Austria
Awards
2023 World Illustration Award Shortlist
2022 Vila Real Biodiversity Contest selected
2022 Japan Illustrators Association Bronze
2022 World Illustration Award Shortlist
2021 Global Illustration Award Honorary Mention
2021 Global Illustration Award Gold
2020 Creative Quarterly 58 Runner Up
2019 3x3 Award Honorable Mention
2019 Ginco Comic Award Shortlist
2019 World Illustration Award Shortlist
2018 Global Illustration Award Gold
2017 GoSee Award Shortlist
Artist in residence
2024 Gravity & Growth,
Alpine Garden Bad Aussee, Austria
2022 Sasso Residency,
Ticino, Switzerland
Exhibitions
2024 Group exhibition “Visualizing Klimawandel”, wei sraum, Innsbruck, Austria
2024 Group exhibition “Floating Curtains”, Kultur&Gut Hamburg Germany 6 wei sraum, Innsbruck, Austria
2023 Group exhibition „Wissenschaft trifft Kunst“, Comicfestival ,Hamburg, Germany
2023 Group exhibition „Vibrate Dimension“, Openspace, Innsbruck, Austria
2023 Solo exhibition „Seeded Smolder“, Mount Baldy Visitor Center, California, USA
2023 Solo exhibition „Rooted Schemata“, Botanischer Garten Innsbruck, Austria
2022 Group exhibition of Scientific and Nature Drawing, Teatro de Vila Real, Vila Real, Portugal
2022 Group exhibition „Alpennordseitig“, Openspace, Innsbruck, Austria
2020 Group exhibition Global Illustration Award Exhibition, Illusalon Headquarter, Peking, China
2019 Group exhibition World Illustration Award Exhibition, Somerset House, London, UK
2018 Group exhibition Tapir undKlotz Kalender Enfants Art Space, Hamburg, Germany
2017 Group exhibition ODRADEK #2, Galerie 21 Vorwerkstift, Hamburg, Germany
2016 Group exhibition ODRADEK #1, Galerie Speckstraße, Hamburg, Germany
2015 Group exhibition „Poetic Science“ Alliance Française de Bologne, Bologna, Italy
2014 Group exhibition „Geld, Ruhm & Groupies“, Comicfestival , Hamburg, Germany
2014 Group exhibition „Greyscale“ Oberhafengalerie, Hamburg, Germany
2013 Group exhibition „In eigener Sache“ Raum rechts links, Hamburg, Germany
Fundings
2020 Cafe Royal Kulturstiftung Hamburg for the book project Low Bow - von Drama und Klima
2022 VG Bildkunst Germany for the collective work with Edition_o
2022 stadt_potenziale Innsbruck Austria for the book project“ Von Nutz und Zier“
2022 Bundeskanzleramt, Land Tirol and City of Innsbruck, Austria for the Underbridge Festival
2023 Bundeskanzleramt, Land Tirol and City of Innsbruck, Austria for the Underbridge Festival
2024 Land Tirol and City of Innsbruck, Austria for the Underbridge Festival
Publications
2024 “Herzensdinge”, Rowohlt Verlag, Germany
2023 „What Gardeners Grow“,
Bloom Publishing, Quarto Publishing, Frances Lincoln, UK
2019 „The Friendsgiving Handbook“,
Chronicle Books San Francisco, USA
2018 „Bookzine 5 „Die Schwarze Flotte“,
Corrective, Germany
Selected clients
72 + Sunny
Arte Magazine
Bergwelten Magazin
Bloom Magazine
Breathe Magazine
Chronicle Books San Francisco
Die Zeit
Dogs Magazine
Donna
Eltern Magazine
Frances Lincoln
Freundin Magazine
Harvest Moon
Heimat tbwa
Hornbach
Hygge Magazine
Greenpeace Magazine
Greenpeace Switzerland
Krautreporter
Millerntor Gallery
Organic Life Magazine
Quarto Publishing
Patagonia Europe
Schauspielhaus Hamburg
Schweizer Familie
Teen Breathe Magazine
Territory
Urban Outfitters
Viva con Agua
Wienerin
Wirtschaftswoche
Teaching
WS21/22
Lecturer for informative illustration, University of Applied Science Hamburg, Germany
November 2021
„Grafikids“ workshop, Wei sraum Designforum, Innsbruck, Austria
SS22
Lecturer for informative illustration, University of Applied Science Hamburg , Germany
Summer 2022
„Kinder Uni“, children workshop University of Innsbruck, Austria
Dezember 2022
„Genial Überdimensional“ children workshop, Bilding, Innsbruck, Austria
Summer 2023
„Kinder Uni“, children workshops University of Innsbruck, Austria