MIA Art Collection
Mariela Lairet´s gallery is a cultural space that invites the public to contemplate contemporary art, created by artists who set challenges for themselves,and they dare to manifest their works in differents media, evolving their expression and varying their reflections and concepts as they grow and develop their work.
MIA Art Collection, the collection of art founded by Chilean philanthropist Alejandra Castro Rioseco, who has more than +900 works of art created by female artists, presents a virtual exhibition inside her MIA Anywhere Virtual Museum with artists who explore feminist demands through their work.
Affective Alterations
What is the role of material culture in understanding the past, with a female point of view? ‘Affective alterations’ is the name of our new exhibition inside our MIA virtual museum that explores this question.
By 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.
