Helge Meyer
Born 1969 and lives in Lahstedt, Germany, studied fine art at the HBK Braunschweig and cultural science at the University of Hildesheim, Germany (diploma 1999). As a researcher Meyer is interested in questions of pain, duo work, cooperation, and the history of images. His PHD thesis focused on Performance Art and Pain, at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Stuttgart. He teaches Art in High School and the University of Hildesheim.
Helge is also the Co-founder of System HM2T founded in 1998. Before this year, Marco Teubner and Helge Meyer worked solo in the fields of performance art, music and installation. System HM2T showed their duo-performances at different festivals all over the world (for example: 2001: Exit Festival, Finland 2nd Open Art Platform, China! Aozora Art Project, Japan; 2002: PIPAF 2 Saluhan, Philippines A.K.T.3, Czech Republic, etc.). Since 2000 Teubner and Meyer associated with the international meetings of Black Market International (in Germany, Switzerland, 2000, Italy, 2001, Canada, 2002, Scotland 2005/2007, etc.).