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Mia Paller

video , tekenen , schilderen , proces , printen (2D) , Grafiek , fotografie , Experimenteel , DIY , collage , Artistiek onderzoek , Abstract

Mia Paller's work consists of paintings, drawings, collages and prints (woodcut, screen print, etching, linocut etc.). The latter relates to another aspect of her practice, which focuses on the overlap of (analogue) photography and drawing. Abstraction, gesture and indexicality are overarching elements of her work as a visual artist.

Printmaking production, 2024-25 (recent work)
Printmaking production, 2024-25 (recent work) - Little House, 2024, colour linocut, 14x 18 cm
Printmaking production, 2024-25 (recent work)
Printmaking production, 2024-25 (recent work) - Little Beak, 2025, colour linocut, A3
Printmaking production, 2024-25 (recent work)
Printmaking production, 2024-25 (recent work) - Os and Vs, 2024, aquatint, line etching and drypoint, 12 x 16 cm
Printmaking production, 2024-25 (recent work)
Printmaking production, 2024-25 (recent work) - In 2024 and 2025, Mia Paller's practice mostly consists of drawing, collage and printmaking. The artist keeps various sketchbooks packed with drawings, collages, and mix-media compositions. She approaches the image-making process intuitively. Such workflow gives her freedom to create without pressure and expectation, and requires being open to the unexpected. This process enables the artist to find playfulness in form, color and composition, while flirting with the illustration-like character of the images. The sketches that 'work' are then translated into linocuts, etchings or woodcuts, sometimes as a mini series.
I Walk Until I Reach the Surface, 2023 (printmaking series)
I Walk Until I Reach the Surface, 2023 (printmaking series) - I Walk Until I Reach the Surface is a series of prints inspired by the M4H area in Rotterdam. M4H is a former part of the Rotterdam harbor on the river Nieuwe Maas, and is nowadays being transformed into a creative hub, where artist studios, residential buildings and modern start-ups coexist with industry. Due to its creative character, the neighborhood is intriguing for our senses: sounds of construction, smells of fresh and salt water, and interesting visual structures. Mia documented all these aspects during her daily walks in the area. Photos, sketches and reorderings were then translated into a series of 9 prints. Next to the woodcuts, etchings and screenprints, the exhibition gives insight into the process of collecting, arranging and transforming the visuals into the final images.
I Walk Until I Reach the Surface, 2023 (solo exhbition)
I Walk Until I Reach the Surface, 2023 (solo exhbition) - Solo exhibition I Walk Until I Reach the Surface at Hiša kulture v Pivki, Pivka, Slovenia (Oct 2023). Photo: Mia Paller. Link to teh gallery: https://hisakulturepivka.com/M-Paller-Hodim-dokler-ne-dosezem-povrsja-copy
Traceaction, 2022-23 (duo project)
Traceaction, 2022-23 (duo project) - The exhibition Traceaction is the result of collaboration between two galleries, the International Center of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana (MGLC) and Hiša kulture in Pivka (HKP). Artists Monika Plemen and Mia Paller were invited to create a printmaking portfolio. It contains eight graphic prints produced in various techniques (silkscreen, woodcut, lithography, drypoint, aquatint and vernis mou). The title refers to the common starting point that the two artists set when conceiving the portfolio, namely the concept of the trace. A trace as proof that something existed or that something happened, a trace as a track, as the result of the ravages of time, as a direct imprint, a trace as part of the process of creating a graphic print.
Barricades - Photodrawings, 2020-21 (photographic project)
Barricades - Photodrawings, 2020-21 (photographic project) - Barricades are a series of analogue photographs and frottages of the barricades from the ''10-day war'' for Slovenia (1991). These concrete pyramids were dropped by the road and have become overgrown with ivy and shrubs. As the artist was born in 1995, the barricades seem to her like monuments of the war she didn't live and knows little about. She understands frottaging and photographing as means of close examination with forensic quality. As if the time was a sediment compressed in one layer, flattened in a drawing or an analogue photograph. Images expose the texture and its 'flaws' and echo artist's fascination for surfaces and abstraction.
Off the Hook: Likely to Happen, 2022 (group exhibition)
Off the Hook: Likely to Happen, 2022 (group exhibition) - Barricades (2020-21) were shown in the Group exhibition Likely to Happen. The exhibition was a collaboration between DobraVaga Gallery (Ljubljana) and KULA Cetinjska Gallery (Belgrade). Link to the exhbition catalogue: https://www.kinosiska.si/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Off-the-Hook_WEB.pdf Exhibition view in KULA Cetinjska Gallery, Beograd, Serbia (spring 2022). Photo: Matic Pendel.
Photobooks Trace I and II, 2019 (solo exhibition)
Photobooks Trace I and II, 2019 (solo exhibition) - Artist books consist of a black and white photographic series cataloging the typology of a trace: marks of use, coats peeling off, scratches, a drip of gasoline, humble graffiti tag. Mia became a hair-splitting observer, seeking accidental drawing which goes unnoticed in the everyday environment. Collecting is a major method at work here and resonates with the forensic character of a photograph. Photographs were predominantly taken in Rotterdam. The artist reflects that photographing forces her to observe and wonder about the surrounding landscape. Trace I and II, 2019, installation of 2 photobooks (2 tables, charcoal, cotton gloves). Exhibition view at DobraVaga Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Photo: Ales Rosa.

Group exhibition

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Locatie: The Social Hub

Film Screening - Deliquescing

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Locatie: EYE Filmmuseum (Amsterdam)
In samenwerking met: Piet Zwart Instituut (Rotterdam)

Deliquescing is a 2,5-minute black and white video about abstracted landscape/cityscape. It is composed of digitally manipulated photographs which forms the illusion of movement. The audio composition consists of natural atmospheric sounds: snowflakes, wind and the resonance of a crystal. The title Deliquescing (verb) has three main meanings: to become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air, to melt away and, in botany, it designates the phenomenon of forming many small divisions or branches.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihC9_YHS0Nc&feature=youtu.be
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