Melanie Rick 

is an art historian (MA in Art History and Aesthetics, Braunschweig University of Art)

with a focus on contemporary art and many years of experience in the fields of exhibition practice, art management, publication management, art education, and consulting.

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For over a decade, she was studio manager for contemporary artist

Jan Paul Evers and has co-organized numerous exhibitions of the artist's work in Germany and abroad, including at the Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland, the Kölnischer Kunstverein in Cologne, the Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen in Magdeburg, the Kunstmuseum Bochum, the Sprengel Museum in Hannover, the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, the Kunsthalle Lingen, and Evers' solo exhibition at the Museum Villa Stuck in Munich, as well as many other institutions.

A particular highlight in 2017 was accompanying the artist Jan Paul Evers

to the Fogo Island Arts Residency as part of the Ars Viva Prize in Newfoundland.

Her responsibilities included exhibition coordination, co-curating exhibitions, catalog management, grant applications, accounting, transport handling, PR and communication, collaboration, and mediation of artistic work to museums, galleries, institutions, and collectors, and much more.

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At the same time, she worked for two years as a project manager (research assistant) at the Braunschweig University of Art in a research and publication project on the Eißfeldt class, writing her most extensive text contribution on contemporary art to date. She also worked with Dörte Eißfeldt's students at that time and gained her first teaching experience in a university context.

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In addition, she has written and published several texts in the context of contemporary art.

Melanie Rick has also initiated and curated two solo exhibitions under the project name Thebaïs “Hot little Mama” by Dörte Eißfeldt and “myself when young” by Christoph Westermeier in Jan Paul Evers' studio in Cologne.

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She is a member of the German Association for Art History.