Miriam Smidt was born in 1983 on the windswept coast of the North Sea and has lived in Berlin since 2009. A freelance artist since 2018, she has held nine solo exhibitions and participated in over thirty group shows across Germany and Europe—including Greece, Sweden, Italy, and Switzerland—with a strong presence in Berlin and Hamburg. Her work has entered private and public collections from the United States to Japan. Her journey into the arts was marked early by her first award at the age of seventeen.
Beyond her own studio practice, Smidt curates independent art projects, including international art fair presentations and the Next Level Sht* series for Inselgalerie Berlin. She also directs ArtWerk Berlin—a dynamic space for exhibitions, interdisciplinary collaborations, and artistic exchange.
Smidt’s practice unfolds at the intersection of matter and meaning, body and technology, poetry and science. Working across painting, object art, spatial installation, and new media, she weaves experimental forms from both the tangible and the virtual—employing self-invented biodegradable materials alongside digital tools such as augmented reality and artificial intelligence.
Her work maps the fragile cartography of life and death, transformation and transience. Through serial investigations, she delves into diagnosis and decay, resilience and rupture. Drawn from personal biography, her approach lends her work intimate authenticity—where even the starkest themes are touched by grace, by fleeting beauty shimmering in the face of inevitable decline.
At the heart of her process lies an alchemical dialogue with material: she invents, melts, dissects, reconfigures—pushing the limits of substance to reveal what flickers just beneath the surface. In this elemental choreography, she births new structures and abstracted forms that gesture toward the unspeakable, a residue of meaning just out of reach. Her sculptural gestures transform artistic labor into a philosophical and epistemological act.
As both artist and researcher, Smidt bridges aesthetic expression and sociological inquiry. Her works interrogate the fluid borders of identity, embodiment, and belonging in a world shaped by constant transformation—challenging the human desire to anchor the self in the midst of flux. In doing so, she creates spaces of contemplation, resistance, and wonder—luminous fragments that defy the gravity of despair, rising from the fractures of a world in quiet collapse.
Miriam Smidt was born in 1983 on the windswept coast of the North Sea and has lived in Berlin since 2009. A freelance artist since 2018, she has held nine solo exhibitions and participated in over thirty group shows across Germany and Europe—including Greece, Sweden, Italy, and Switzerland—with a strong presence in Berlin and Hamburg. Her work has entered private and public collections from the United States to Japan. Her journey into the arts was marked early by her first award at the age of seventeen.
Beyond her own studio practice, Smidt curates independent art projects, including international art fair presentations and the Next Level Sht* series for Inselgalerie Berlin. She also directs ArtWerk Berlin—a dynamic space for exhibitions, interdisciplinary collaborations, and artistic exchange.
Smidt’s practice unfolds at the intersection of matter and meaning, body and technology, poetry and science. Working across painting, object art, spatial installation, and new media, she weaves experimental forms from both the tangible and the virtual—employing self-invented biodegradable materials alongside digital tools such as augmented reality and artificial intelligence.
Her work maps the fragile cartography of life and death, transformation and transience. Through serial investigations, she delves into diagnosis and decay, resilience and rupture. Drawn from personal biography, her approach lends her work intimate authenticity—where even the starkest themes are touched by grace, by fleeting beauty shimmering in the face of inevitable decline.
At the heart of her process lies an alchemical dialogue with material: she invents, melts, dissects, reconfigures—pushing the limits of substance to reveal what flickers just beneath the surface. In this elemental choreography, she births new structures and abstracted forms that gesture toward the unspeakable, a residue of meaning just out of reach. Her sculptural gestures transform artistic labor into a philosophical and epistemological act.
As both artist and researcher, Smidt bridges aesthetic expression and sociological inquiry. Her works interrogate the fluid borders of identity, embodiment, and belonging in a world shaped by constant transformation—challenging the human desire to anchor the self in the midst of flux. In doing so, she creates spaces of contemplation, resistance, and wonder—luminous fragments that defy the gravity of despair, rising from the fractures of a world in quiet collapse.