Micha Patiniott (b.1972, Amsterdam) creates minimalistic and atmospheric paintings of everyday objects and processes in flux, blurring the boundaries of the mundane and the cosmic. Familiar and intimate subjects, such as the blinking of a butterfly’s wings, the throbbing of intimate body parts, the curving of a mathematical object, and the turning of an ambiguous portrait, are transformed into sensuous otherness. The ephemeral play of light and color is essential and alludes to a contemporary take on historical painting techniques like impressionism and sfumato. Patiniott embraces impermanence as a key element in experiencing the transcendent and sublime, building on metamodernism's call to empathetically explore ever-shifting perspectives of the self. Rather than fixed events, his work functions like a network of visual kōans, offering a rhizomatic stream of perception.

Patiniott was a resident artist at the Rijksakademie in 2006 and 2007. He has participated in solo and group exhibitions internationally including Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, PuntWG (Amsterdam), Cinnnamon (Rotterdam), Heden (Den Haag), WHATSPACE (Tilburg), MKgalerie (Rotterdam),  Galerie Sturm (Nuremberg), Anna Zorina Gallery (New York), Dordrechts Museum, Whitechapel Gallery (London), Museum Provincetown (Massachusetts), Arti et Amicitiae (Amsterdam), Museum Hilversum, and Provinciehuis Noord-Holland (Haarlem).