MIA Art CollectionBy Bastian Marin, August 1st
At the end of my studies in Art History and passing through the Prado Museum as my first work experience, I changed course and launched into entrepreneurship. Art never abandoned me, but enriched everything that started. Immersive experiences have always motivated me, organizing plastic art exhibitions accompanied by music programming, literary presentations, debates; in short, out-of-the-ordinary meetings where culture flows freely.
(ES) (Short-course).
Siguiendo la estela de los relevantes estudios de arte de fuera de Europa de la Universidad de Zaragoza, este curso presenta una panorámica histórica sobre el arte contemporáneo de varios países de Asia Oriental (especialmente, China, Japón, Vietnam, Indonesia y Tailandia), prestando especial atención al papel de la mujer dentro del mismo. Abordaremos el estudio sus manifestaciones artísticas desde sus primeros encuentros con la modernidad hasta el momento actual.
This week on MIA Anywhere, we have gathered the work of four female artists from around the globe. We bring these artists together in hopes to show the diversity of works and artists in MIA Anywhere. From photography, to illustration, sculpture to painting, each artist demonstrates immense skill and passion in their work. From Denmark, to Spain, from Iran to Turkey, each artist may have been unknown to the next but all make up part of the larger picture of women artists in the world. We are excited to announce this week’s collaboration will give each artist an exhibition room, allowing the public to submerge in each artists work deeply. In spite of all the differences that could separate these artists, we have found unity through sorority. As female artists and art enthusiasts, we lift each other up to rise as a whole.
Artists:
Alba Escayo – Spain
Mia Olise – Denmark
Elham Soleimannezhad – Iran
Serap Gecu – Turkey
While the range of themes of “Female Lenses for Art Activism” reaches far and wide, the artists intersect in their multi-layered and multi-faceted artistic practice. The artists on show deal with pressing issues and offer a female lens with which to view these. Consciousness, ancestry, sustainability, mental health, technology, and energies are some of the topics the artists tackle. But while their topics hardly intersect, their savvy artistic skill does. All these women show their work in unique multi-disciplinary ways that combine and remix forms to create work that demands to be seen. The urgency of their work urges us to see these artists as activists, for they are both pushing forth their female lenses with pride while also tackling pressing issues we must acknowledge and observe in our contemporary society.
Female-identifying artists everywhere face countless challenges in and out of the art world. MIA Art Collection’s mission, as defined by its founder Alejandra Castro Rioseco, has been to increase the visibility of female artists everywhere. The defining characteristic of MIA is to exclusively collect and promote female artists on a global scale. For our team and for people everywhere, COVID-19 has drastically changed the professional and personal landscape. To adapt to this situation, we have launched a new initiative which has brought our collection online. In MIA Anywhere, we showcase works from both our permanent collection as well as by visiting artists. After only some weeks running, we have featured the work of female artists from Iran to Peru, Brazil to Spain.
As time passes, memory becomes diluted. Art histories’ memory seems to have more thoroughly and more quickly diluted the names of its female contributors. Many of the women involved in the arts have, thus, become large unknowns not only to the wider audience but to scholars, artists and historians.
Starting from the feminist maxim that “Neither land nor womenare territory of conquest”, an exhibition with women artists who work on the global concern for the climate emergency and the unequal relationship between human and nature is proposed.
Their works address issues as diverse as the speed of a system that is depleting and depleting the planet; the observation of nature as a place to rest, reflect, return to our origin, or what the future would be like if the nature-human symbiosis were a biological reality.
Taking up the idea of Donna Haraway’s 1985 “A Cyborg Manifesto”, this project seeks to make visible how the visual arts and women artists have looked at our unequal relationship with the planet to make us reflect on an equitable future.
(In Spanish)
Las artistas mujeres a lo largo de la historia se han visto y aun se ven enfrentadas a distintos y constantes desafíos y discriminaciones. La misión de MIA Art Collection siempre ha sido incrementar la visibilidad de artistas visuales. Nuestra fundadora, Alejandra Castro Rioseco, ha demostrado que nuestra característica más importante es nuestra habilidad y compromiso de coleccionar y visualizar, de manera exclusiva, el trabajo de artistas mujeres.
Estamos orgullosas de colaborar con la feria de arte JUSTMAD para nuestra siguiente exhibición. MIA Art Collection y JUSTMad presentan Ni La Tierra ni las Mujeres, una exposición de mujeres artistas que trabajan sobre la preocupación global por la emergencia climática y la relación desigual ser-humano naturaleza. Sus obras abordan cuestiones tan diversas como la rapidez de un sistema que agota al planeta, la observación de la naturaleza como el lugar para descansar, reflexionar, volver a nuestro origen, o cómo sería el futuro si la simbiosis naturaleza ser-humano fuera una realidad biológica.
Artist:
1. Flo Arnold – Loo & Lou Gallery
2. Adriana Berges – Galería de arte A Ciega
3. Chingsum Jessye Luk – Set Espai d’art
4. Eva Díez – Galería Marisa Marimón
5. Carla Andrade – Galería Trinta
6. Laura Salguero – Galería La Gran
WATCH NOW: JustMAD x MIA on MIAanywhere.com
Art has the power to connect, heal, and build communities, define periods, and start new ones.
While much of the world’s cultural offering has closed its doors to combat the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19), at MIA Collection we remain committed to our mission of inspiring knowledge, creativity, ideas and being an art haven created by women.
That is why, committed to our community, we have decided to make available, through our social networks, a technological platform to help artists make their work visible and also show some of our own Collection’s valuable works of art, all this through our exclusively designed MIA Art Collection Virtual Museum
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We hope to be a support in these challenging moments.
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Born in Bangladesh in 1977, Rana Begum lives and works in London.
The work of London-based artist Rana Begum distills spatial and visual experience into ordered form. Through her refined language of Minimalist abstraction, Begum blurs the boundaries between sculpture, painting and architecture. Her visual language draws from the urban landscape as well as geometric patterns from traditional Islamic art and architecture. Light is fundamental to her process. Her works absorb and reflect varied densities of light to produce an experience for the viewer that is both temporal and sensorial.
Begum was also recently elected an RA (2020)