Miriam Smidt

My works embody liveliness and motion — their lucid beauty deliberately forms a counterpoint to the vicious harshness of contemporary culture and opposes its pain with confidence. Overcoming despair through art is, to me, the highest form of hope.

Since my childhood on the North Sea coast, where the ebb and flow of the tides mark the passage of time, I have been shaped by a love of water and art. Both resisted the vast desolation of the landscape in which I grew up and the emptiness of my melancholy youth, which was affected early on by the confrontation with my own finitude. Nevertheless, I studied political science and German language and literature studies and initially worked as a social scientist until a brain tumor diagnosis in 2016 marked my personal turning point and I returned to painting and, thus, to water.

y fluid technique explores the entanglements of the individual with time and transience and stresses the diffuse boundaries of control and letting go — movement and standstill, overflow and emptiness, constant and volatile components. My own finitude is always in the literal and proverbial back of my head as I negotiate artistically with an invisible opponent: the faster I move, the faster time runs through my h...

2023: Soloshow „tinge!“, Art in Public Spaces – curated by Lilly Fürstenow, Volkssolidarität, Berlin, Germany

2023: Soloshow „I became the color“, Flexim, Berlin, Germany

2023: „Art A10“, Wildau, Germany

2023: „International Painters Exhibition“, Remezzo Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece

2023: Variable X, Inselgalerie, Berlin, Germany

2023: „Art Meets You“, Cassiopeia, Berlin, Germany

2023: Presentation of the 1st International Painting Symposium Theassaloniki, Chilis Theatre of Municipalty Kalamaria, Kalamaria, Greece

2023: Soloshow „Endless Summer“ Contemporary Art Salon, HaSpa x Z Contemporary, Hamburg, Germany

2022: Soloshow „NOW!“Kreativgesellschaft / ZContemporary, Hamburg, Germany

2022: „Art Meets You“ Zwinglikirche, Berlin, Germany

2022: „Chasing the Rainbow“ Kreativgesellschaft / ZContemporary, Hamburg, Germany

2022: „100 unter 100“, Studiobaustelle, Berlin, Germany

2022: „Beyond Paradise“, ArtWerk Berlin, Germany

2022: „Fresh Legs“, Inselgalerie, Berlin, Germany

2022: „Holy Fluff“ Supermarket Art Fair, with >top artitstinitiatives, Stockholm Sweden

2021: Soloshow „Elysium“, ArtWerk Berlin, Germany

2021: „Women in Art 2021“, Z-Contemporary at Berlin Artweek, Berlin, Germany

2021: „Morgen“, Inselgalerie, Ber...