Mia Marfurt
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2020
1985
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Mia Marfurt's artwork is concerned with spacial displacement. Many of her pieces evoke drawing even if her artworks have parted the realm of drawing. If the line was a starting point it has been extruded, expanded and formulated into a physicality that has less to do with mark making and more to do with physics.
With her new body of work, Mia Marfurt (born Zürich, 1985, lives and works in Zürich, Switzerland) continues her enquiry into the analogue/digital condition accepting its ubiquitous nature without cynicism. Marfurt creates tension in the large-scale colour drawings by challenging symmetry, repetition, abstraction and precision creating free and refreshing compositions. Sensual in texture, the works playfulness making it hard to believe they come from such a rigorous protocol. By adapting existing trade machinery, Marfurt extends the artist’s arm by having a reconditioned architectural plotter wield t ...
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An exploration into the formal abyss of composition and decomposition, of painterly values and printing efficiencies.
– Samuel Leuenberger. Founder of SALTS / Curator of Art Basel Parcours
Mia Marfurt was born in 1985, Zürich, Switzerland. She lives and works in Zürich.
She studied at Rijksakademie, Amsterdam; AUTOCENTER, Berlin; Germany; University of Zürich and ZHdK, Zürich.
She has had solo and group exhibitions at SALTS, Basel; WallRiss, Fribourg; Basis, Frankfurt; Galerie Allen, Paris; Jardin des Tuileries, FIAC 2018, Paris; ACRUSH, Zürich; Froh Aussicht, Samstagerm; Carl Kostyal, Stockholm; Palais de Tokyo at ACRUSH, Zürich; 1857, Oslo; HONOLULU, Zurich and at Elevation 1049 in Gstaad amongst others.
Her works are held in numerous private collections and Fonds d'Art Contemporain - Paris Collections
With the support of the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia