Laura Mietrup

Laura Mietrup presents an installation which is specifically conceived for the space. 
Her artistic practice is multi-facetted; she feels at home in many media, but . Even in her drawing and painting practices, she uses a predominantly sculptural vocabulary. She moves freely between furniture and sculpture and questions issues of signification, functionality and readability. Volumes, materials, borders and architectural hierarchies are permanently renegotiated in her practice and her work brakes through the boundaries of performance, installation and display, always involving the viewer in the process. 

Mietrup develops a new formal language system, which is in urgent need of an interpretation from the viewer: recognizing and reading forms that seem familiar to the viewer are transformed into a new, unknown language. What this visual lexicon means, remains mysterious and ultimately unsolved. As viewers, we recognize reflections on the formal language of modernism within the context of negotiating Mietrup’s own role as an artist. 

Laura Mietrup (*1987, Rheinfelden, CH) graduated with a  B.A. in Fine Arts from the HGK/FHNW, Basel in 2017 and completed an M.A. in Contemporary Art Practice at the HKB in Bern. She also received the prestigious Förderpreis of the BEWE Stiftung, was nominated for the Werkstattpreis Erich Hauser Stiftung, Exhibition Award Kunstmuseum Olten and the project contribution of the Aargauer Kuratorium. Her work is present in multiple private and institutional collections in Switzerland and abroad. Selective solo shows include Kunsthalle Arbon, Dienstraum/Kunstmuseum Olten, Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel (Duo show with Robin Michel), Kunsthaus Baselland, Galerie Ann Mazotti and Balzer Projects, Basel.