Naomi Middelmann

Working with a variety of mediums, such as found objects, transformed objects, installations, drawing, and painting, Naomi Middelmann explores the process in which we remember things and the subjectivity of those memories depending on context. Middelmann says: “I am interested in how we assemble and disassemble our memories depending on who we are talking to and the context in which we remember things. Remembering is not a process that gets us from point a to point z, but rather a process in which we imagine, we tell stories, we construct and deconstruct in order to make sense of who we are.” The space between memory and imagination is nearly invisible. Her interest in the ambiguity of perception and in what we think we know, as well as in how artists can contribute to scientific study on perception and understanding the creative process have led her to actively collaborate, teach, and design research projects with neuroscientists in Switzerland and the USA.

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In 2021, she received a grant from the Swiss government to do an artist residency in a neuroscience lab. Her work is exhibited in the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. In 2021, she was invited to do an artist residency at the Jenisch Museum in Switzerland where she ...

Bachelor degree in Creative Writing and in International Relations, The Johns Hopkins University, USA

2004-2009 Visual Art School, Basel (degree in Visual Arts and Visual Arts Education), Switzerland

Museum Exhibits
2025 San Domenico, Trapani, IT
2024 Coravallis art Center, Oregon
2023 Stapflehus Art center, Germany
2022 Museu dela Dona, Spain
2022 Museum Dreilander, Germany

Solo Exhibits (selection)
2010 Espace Tour, Lausanne, CH
2011 Gallery Arcane, Corcelles CH
2011 Gallery Pré-du-Marché, CH
2012 Gallery Edouard Roch, Ballens CH
2013 Gallery SpaceStation, Lausanne CH
2013 Gallery Arcane, Corcelles (NE), CH
2014 Gallery Edouard Roch, CH
2014 Gallery EPFL, Lausanne, CH
2016 Gallery Edouard Roch, CH
2016 Space Station (Off space), CH
2016 Basel Klein Kunsthalle, Basel, CH
2017 MK gallery, Freiburg, DE
2018 CDAC gallery, CH
2019 Les Cubes, CH
2019 Spacestation gallery,
2019 Gallery Edouard Roch, CH
2019 Gallery Chuv, CH
2021 Cdac gallery CH
2023 Postcollapse Art, Zurich Ch

Group Exhibits (selection)
2013 Gallery Edouard Roch, “30 years”, CH
2015 « Displaced » Node Gallery, Helsinki, FI
2015 EPFL Art space, Lausanne, CH
2015 Gallery Rossi, Geneva, CH
2015 Galerie Roch, CH
2016 Kunsthalle, Klein Basel, CH
2017 Galerie Edouard Roch, CH
2017 Vercelli Cultural and Art Foundation, Italy
2017 The Core project...