Naomi Middelmann

Just as one can never return to the same time and place, neither memory nor our understanding of place remains permanent. This understanding lies at the foundation of Middelmann’s practice.
Middelmann foregrounds the subjective and fluid nature of memory, resisting fixed interpretation and permanence alike. This approach is reflected in her expansive use of media, including maps, discarded letters, hand-sewn textile installations, drawings, alternative photographic processes, and painting. Her work shows how memory is reconstructive, adaptive, and continually reshaped through perception.

Middelmann’s work resists archival certainty while embracing the power of personal narrative. Existing within the interstitial space between knowing and feeling, imagination and memory, her practice examines how individuals negotiate time, displacement, and impermanence. Through labor-intensive acts of handwriting, stitching, and reassembly, she reflects on the human impulse to preserve what is continually slipping away. Her sustained engagement with perception and memory is informed as much by her background in international relations as by her collaborations with neuroscientists, whose research into cognition, perception, and neuroplasticity res...

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

2026 Msc in Psychological sciences (Glasgow)

Museum Exhibits
2027 Musée de La Main, Lausanne, CH
2026 San Domenico Museum, Trapani, IT
2026 MAF, Lausanne, CH
2026 Museo del Fiume, Rome, IT
2026 Palazzo Zisa, Palermo, IT
2026 Le Cabanon, Contemporary Art Space, Lausanne, CH
2025 San Domenico, Trapani, IT
2024 Coravallis Art Center, Oregon, USA
2023 Stapflehus Art Center, Germany
2022 Museum Dreiländer, Germany
2022 Museu de la Dona, Spain

Solo Exhibits (selection)
2026 Gallery 10, Lausanne, CH
2025 Jasmin Glaab Gallery, Bern, CH
2023 Postcollapse Art, Zurich, CH
2021 CDAC Gallery, Lausanne, CH
2019 Gallery CHUV, Lausanne, CH
2019 Gallery Edouard Roch, Ballens, CH
2019 Spacestation Gallery, Lausanne, CH
2019 Les Cubes, Lausanne, CH
2018 CDAC Gallery, Lausanne, CH
2017 MK Gallery, Freiburg, DE
2016 Basel Klein Kunsthalle, Basel, CH
2016 Space Station (Off-space), Lausanne, CH
2016 Gallery Edouard Roch, Ballens, CH
2014 EPFL Gallery, Lausanne, CH
2014 Gallery Edouard Roch, Ballens, CH
2013 Gallery SpaceStation, Lausanne, CH
2013 Gallery Arcane, Corcelles (NE), CH
2012 Gallery Edouard Roch, Ballens, CH
2011 Gallery Pré-du-Marché, Lausanne, CH
2011 Gallery Arcane, Corcelles, CH
2010 Espace Tour, Lausanne, CH

Group Exhibits (selection)
2026 Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, USA
2025 Ri...