Mia Florentine Weiss

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Portrait of Mia Florentine Weiss

Mia Florentine Weiss (born March 9, 1980 in Würzburg) is a German conceptual and performance artist. Her work encompasses various artistic disciplines such as performance, text, blood, installation, sculpture, objets trouvés, photography and film.^[1][2][3][4]

Her work has been shown in Museums and Art fairs internationally.^[5] Her sculptural ambigram LOVE HATE has travelled Europe as a symbol of peace and a change of perspective.

Selected Exhibitions[]

Weiss created a sculpture which can be either read as Love or Hate depending on which side it is viewed from. Since 2018, she has run a pro-European campaign #LOVEUROPE with the LOVE HATE sculpture in different countries in and outside Europe: Germany, Austria, Belgium, France, Russia, Czech Republic.^[6][7]

In June 2018, her work was included in Die BUNTE Art in the Museum of Urban and Contemporary Art in Munich, Germany.^[8]

In 2018 she was part of the URBAN NATION Artist in Residence Programme in the Urban Nation Museum for Urban Contemporary Art in Berlin (Germany).^[9]

The content-related examination of individual shelters and their antithesis as well as the question “What is your place of protection?” Has been consistently going through her work since 1999. In her works, she often contrasts the extremes of human emotions: dialectic, which is translated into images. In doing so, Weiss goes beyond boundaries, always seeking unity and contradiction, which she symbolizes through the coincidence of opposites (Coincidentia Oppositorum). The installation, front and centre of the Reichstag building was supported by Metzler banking family, one of the artist’s patrons. LOVE HATE has gained international renown at the art fairs Art Basel Miami as well as the “Opening” object of Context Miami 2016. LOVE HATE is represented in worldwide collections. In 2019/20, another LOVE HATE installation by the artist in Berlin is planned on the occasion of the cooperation with the Stiftung Stadtmuseum.

Further reading[]

• Oelmann, Sabine: „Zwischen Liebe und Hass Mia Florentine Weiss, Madonna of Art". Published on 4 April 2017 auf n-tv Online
• Gisbourne, Mark und Broecking, Maxi: Mia Florentine Weiss. Ten Years of Work. 2006-2016, Berlin: , 2016
• Pirich, Carolin: „Man braucht Ackergäule, keine Flügel". Published on 5 December 2015 in taz Online
• Anonymer Autor: Sonderausstellung: Mit „Pegasus" rund um die mitnichten heile Welt. Published on 18 November 2015 in Frankfurter Neue Presse Online
• Stillbauer, Thomas: Senckenberg-Naturmuseum: Auf der Suche nach Zuflucht. Published on 13 November 2015 in Frankfurter Rundschau Online
• Scholz, Claudia: Kunstprojekt für Flüchtlinge: Die Suche nach Geborgenheit. Published on 12 November 2015 in Online
• Bok, Anna: Top 6 Highlights: Berlin Art Week. Published on 14 September 2015 in Harpers Bazaar Online
• Kathe, Sandra: Senckenberg-Museum: Pegasus’ Reise beginnt am Main. Published on 20 April 2015 in Frankfurter Neue Presse Online
• Magel, Eva-Maria: Achtung, fliegendes Pferd! .Published on Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Online
• Dörrenberg, Clemens: Senckenberg: Ein Pferd schwebt ins Museum..Published on 19 April 2015 in Frankfurter Rundschau Online
• Albers Ben Chamo, Sophie: Pegasus Projekt: Kunst entlang der Flüchtlingsrouten. Published on 7 September 2015 in Stern Online

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