Micha Patiniott's slightly absurdist paintings and objects question the borders between imagination, illusion, and reality. Everyday imagery morphs into the surreal and tragi-comic, hinting at the psychedelic. Analogous to visual kōans, these images pose paradoxical riddles that at first glance may seem nonsensical, banal or irreverent. At their heart though, is a pointing to impermanence of identity and meaning that reverberates with concepts of emptiness and ‘no-self'. Recurring visual motifs are inanimate objects or materials, flora, and fauna that have been anthropomorphized or rendered otherworldly through painterly manipulations. Multiple physical and psychological identities bleed into each other - elongated fingers might be placed against weirdly stretched piano keys, as the body morphs into the inanimate object and vice-versa. The humanesque figure is shown expressing a certain instability, cut or fragmented, repeated, like hybrids or reflections of the tools they interact with. These subjects are often connected to the world of painting, writing, or making music: brushes and paint, pencils, pen and ink, empty canvases, paper or frames, books, musical instruments. They embody a degree of self-referentiality, that is further explored by taking cues from the history of painting. The echo of the works of Breughel, Goya, and Caspar David Friedrich can be seen, and more recent artists like Fontana and Guston. These established references are then questioned in relation to more loopy visual archetypes from films, the internet, cartoons, and animations, where the fluid-violent morphology of a Tom and Jerry world can happily meet with the paintings of the revered Old Masters.
Patiniott's images embrace a form of new surrealism that extends from postmodern views of hyper-subjectivity and deconstructed identities. Aligning with propositions made within metamodernism, this can be understood as an attempt to open, by empathy and imagination, a perceptive window to alternative ways of seeing and being. A web of temporarily stable narratives within narratives aims to connect the metaphysical and sublime to the intimately personal; it is sprinkled with humor but resists ironic distance. As the scenes engage with the fluidity of perception, they are not fixed stories but suggest a flow of rhizomatic meanings in dialogue with the viewer.
Micha Patiniott was born in 1972 in Amsterdam (NL). In 1996 he completed his Masters degree in Image and Media Technology at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht. In 2006 and 2007 he was a resident at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. This was followed by a residency at the FAWC in Provincetown, Massachusetts (US). His work was shown in solo exhibitions in the Netherlands at the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, PuntWG (Amsterdam), Cinnnamon (Rotterdam), Heden (Den Haag), WHATSPACE (Tilburg) and MKgalerie (Rotterdam); in Germany at Galerie Sturm (Nuremberg); and in the USA at Anna Zorina gallery (NY). Among the locations where his work has been shown in group exhibitions are the Dordrechts Museum (NL); Whitechapel Gallery London (UK); Museum Provincetown, Massachusetts (US); Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam (NL); Museum Hilversum (NL); Provinciehuis Noord-Holland (Haarlem). The work of Micha Patiniott is included in private, public and museum collections within the Netherlands and abroad. He lives and works in Amsterdam.
CV
1990 – 1996
2008 & 2009
2006 – 2007
2021
2012
2010
2009
2006 & 2007
2016 & 2017
2018 – now
2003
2020
2018
2016
2016
2015
2014
2011
2010
2010
2009
2020
2020
2019
2019
2019
2017
2017
2016
2016
2015
2015
2014
2014
2014
2013
2013
2012
2012
2012
2012
2011
2011
2011
2010
2010
2010
2009
2009
2008
2008
2007 & 2006
EDUCATION
MA, Image and Media Technology, HKU
RESIDENCIES
Fine Arts Work Center, Massachusetts, US
Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam
STIPENDS & AWARDS
Mondriaan Fund Stipendium for Established Artists
Mondriaan Fund Stipendium for Established Artists
Shortlist Wim Izaks Award
Louise Bourgeois Fellowship
Stichting Schurmann-Krant Fellowship
COMMITTEES
Head of Jury for Jeanne Oosting Price for painting
TEACHING
Lecturer Fine Art,Painting at AKI ArtEZ
Academy for Art & Design
Tutor Image and Media Technology at HKU, Hilversum
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Extended studio
PuntWG, Amsterdam
Babooshka-ya-ya!
CINNNAMON, Rotterdam
Oh! When love is gone, where does it go?
Heden, Den Haag
Smoke Signals
Galerie Sturm, Nuremberg, Germany
A Cat Under the Blankets (with Just Quist)
WHATSPACE, Tilburg
ZzzzzZzzZzz
Anna Zorina gallery, New York
I Know It When I See It
MKgalerie, Rotterdam
Curiously Human II
MKgalerie, Rotterdam
Curiously Human
Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
The Full Story II
Art Amsterdam, MKgalerie
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)
Nocturne
Logman gallery, Utrecht
Heden Highlights
Heden, Den Haag
My Biggest Small
SHOWHOUSE JAYJAY, Art Antwerp Weekend
Fresh Windows
Galerie Roger Katwijk, Amsterdam
Paper Works
ALBADA JELGERSMA, Amsterdam
Oog in Oog – Topstukken uit de collectie
Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
We Like Art
Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam
Portretten uit de Heden Collectie
Heden, Den Haag
Lust For Life: Painting Today
We Like Art, Amsterdam
Faces
Anna Zorina Gallery, New York
Daar komen de putters
Kasteel Keukenhof, Lisse
Art Hampton
Anna Zorina Gallery, New York
I am not doing anything until I feel the need
De Nederlandse Bank, Amsterdam
Primitive – Prime Time
Anna Zorina Gallery, New York
The Air Near My Fingers
Provincie Huis Noord-Holland, Haarlem
As Tears Go By
Cokkie Snoei, Rotterdam
Figuratively: The Human Figure in Art
Museum Hilversum
From a Painter’s Perspective
Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
Het Ongerijmde
Tricot (Stichting Wim Izaks), Winterswijk
New Acquisitions AMC collection
Brummelkamp Galerie and AMC, Amsterdam
What’s Up? New Dutch contemporary painting
Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht
New Acquisitions Erasmus MC collection
Erasmus galerie, Rotterdam
Art Rotterdam
MKgalerie, Rotterdam
Pulse Miami
MKgalerie, Miami, Florida
ARTSCHOOL/UK and its Observers
Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
Art Amsterdam
MKgalerie, Rotterdam
Art Rotterdam
MKgalerie, Rotterdam
FAWC Fellows
Museum Provincetown, Massachusetts
New Painters
Galerie LUMC, Leiden
The Present of the Future
MKgalerie, Berlin, Germany
Rijksakademie Open
Rijksakademie, Amsterdam
2010
2019
2015
2012
2012
2011
2010
2019
2016
2013
2013
2011
2011
2009
2008
2007
2020
2019
2019
2019
2019
2018
2016
2016
2015
2014
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2010
2010
2010
2010
2009
ARTIST MONOGRAPH
Micha Patiniott: Curiously Human
with essays by Rob Perrée and Diana Wind
published by Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
WORK IN COLLECTIONS
Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, NL
Bouwfonds Kunstcollectie, NL
Eneco collectie, NL
AMC collectie, NL
Plancius collection, NL
Arthema Foundation collection, NL
Erasmus MC collection, NL
Heden collectie, NL
CBK Rotterdam, NL
Amma Foundation, Mexico
Private collections in the Netherlands, Belgium and US
EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
A Building that Radiates Art
AMC Art collection
Daar komen de Putters
Kunstzaken Kasteel Keukenhof
Figuurlijk / Figuratively
Museum Hilversum – text by Nathanja van Dijk
From a Painter’s Perspective
Arti et Amicitiae – text by Jurrian Benschop
What’s Up? New Dutch contemporary painting
Dordrechts Museum – text by drs MHAM Peters
ARTSCHOOL/UK and its Observers
Whitechapel Gallery London
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Nothing But Good; 31/3/2019, ‘ Micha Patiniott & Philip Guston’
Nouveau ; Nr. 8, ‘Kunstestafette: Micha Patiniott’
Mister Motley; Nr. 023, Het Kantoor, ‘Bic Smile’
Stubenhocker Magazin nr. 2. Galerie Roy
Oxford American; ‘Back and Forth’ 2009
AMC Magazine; 01/6/2011, ‘Kijken is Voelen’, Janneke Wesseling
Dossier; ‘Folding Paper, 2009’
Kunstbeeld; nr. 3 ‘ De Gaten van Micha Patiniott’
Rijksakademie Open; text by Valérie Mannaerts
REVIEWS
ArtDependence Magazine, 14/5/2020; interview
with Micha Patiniott by Dirk van Duffel
Kunst Blijft een Raadsel, 29/9/2019; review by
Paul Voors on ‘Fresh Windows’ at Roger Katwijk
Parool, 8/3/2019; review by Edo Dijksterhuis
on ‘Paper Works’ at Albada Jelgersma
Lost Painters, 15/9/2020; article by Niek Hendrix
on ‘Fresh Windows’ at Roger Katwijk
Lost Painters, 14/1/2020; article by Niek Hendrix
on ‘Babooshka-ya-ya!’ solo at CINNNAMON
Art Viewer: article on ‘Babooshka-ya-ya!’
solo at CINNNAMON
CHMKOOME; 6/12/16, article by Kees Koomen on
‘Oh! When love is gone, where does it go?’ at Heden
Lost Painters; 13/2/2016, article on
Rotterdam Contemporary Artfair 2016
Lost Painters; 23/11/2015, article by Niek Hendrix
on ‘A Cat Under the Blankets’ at WHATSPACE
Wall Street International Art; article on
‘ZzzzzZzzZzz’ solo at Anna Zorina Gallery
Uncompromising Tang; 17/5/2014,
interview by Jason Mones
Trendbeheer; 2/3/2013, article by Jeroen Bosch
on ‘As Tears Go By’ at Cokkie Snoei
TUBELIGHT; 11/2/2012, ‘Re: Rotterdam -
Een waardig alternatief’ by Lilian Bense
Kunstbeeld; nr 12, ‘De jongste Nederlandse Schilderkunst:
Allesbehalve zwaar’, Arjan Reinders on ‘What’s Up!’ at
Dordrechts Museum
Lost Painters; 10/10/2010, article by Niek Hendrix
on ‘Curiously Human’ at Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
TUBELIGHT: 14/9/2010, review by Judith de Bruijn
“Schilderkunst met of zonder pretentie’
Volkskrant: 29/9/2010, ‘Micha Patiniott’,
article by Michiel Hogenboom
NRC; 19/7/2010, **** review by Lucette ter Borg
‘Patiniott toont weelderig riet en sappige weiden’
at Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
Trendbeheer; 14/7/2010, ‘Curiously Human’
at Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
TUBELIGHT; 2/2/2009, article by Loukie Hoos
on “Nieuwe Schilders’ at LUMC
Micha Patiniott's slightly absurdist paintings and objects question the borders between imagination, illusion, and reality. Everyday imagery morphs into the surreal and tragi-comic, hinting at the psychedelic. Analogous to visual kōans, these images pose paradoxical riddles that at first glance may seem nonsensical, banal or irreverent. At their heart though, is a pointing to impermanence of identity and meaning that reverberates with concepts of emptiness and ‘no-self'. Recurring visual motifs are inanimate objects or materials, flora, and fauna that have been anthropomorphized or rendered otherworldly through painterly manipulations. Multiple physical and psychological identities bleed into each other - elongated fingers might be placed against weirdly stretched piano keys, as the body morphs into the inanimate object and vice-versa. The humanesque figure is shown expressing a certain instability, cut or fragmented, repeated, like hybrids or reflections of the tools they interact with. These subjects are often connected to the world of painting, writing, or making music: brushes and paint, pencils, pen and ink, empty canvases, paper or frames, books, musical instruments. They embody a degree of self-referentiality, that is further explored by taking cues from the history of painting. The echo of the works of Breughel, Goya, and Caspar David Friedrich can be seen, and more recent artists like Fontana and Guston. These established references are then questioned in relation to more loopy visual archetypes from films, the internet, cartoons, and animations, where the fluid-violent morphology of a Tom and Jerry world can happily meet with the paintings of the revered Old Masters.
Patiniott's images embrace a form of new surrealism that extends from postmodern views of hyper-subjectivity and deconstructed identities. Aligning with propositions made within metamodernism, this can be understood as an attempt to open, by empathy and imagination, a perceptive window to alternative ways of seeing and being. A web of temporarily stable narratives within narratives aims to connect the metaphysical and sublime to the intimately personal; it is sprinkled with humor but resists ironic distance. As the scenes engage with the fluidity of perception, they are not fixed stories but suggest a flow of rhizomatic meanings in dialogue with the viewer.
Micha Patiniott was born in 1972 in Amsterdam (NL). In 1996 he completed his Masters degree in Image and Media Technology at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht. In 2006 and 2007 he was a resident at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. This was followed by a residency at the FAWC in Provincetown, Massachusetts (US). His work was shown in solo exhibitions in the Netherlands at the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, PuntWG (Amsterdam), Cinnnamon (Rotterdam), Heden (Den Haag), WHATSPACE (Tilburg) and MKgalerie (Rotterdam); in Germany at Galerie Sturm (Nuremberg); and in the USA at Anna Zorina gallery (NY). Among the locations where his work has been shown in group exhibitions are the Dordrechts Museum (NL); Whitechapel Gallery London (UK); Museum Provincetown, Massachusetts (US); Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam (NL); Museum Hilversum (NL); Provinciehuis Noord-Holland (Haarlem). The work of Micha Patiniott is included in private, public and museum collections within the Netherlands and abroad. He lives and works in Amsterdam.
CV
1990 – 1996
2008 & 2009
2006 – 2007
2021
2012
2010
2009
2006 & 2007
2016 & 2017
2018 – now
2003
EDUCATION
MA, Image and Media Technology, HKU
RESIDENCIES
Fine Arts Work Center, Massachusetts, US
Rijksakademie, Amsterdam
STIPENDS & AWARDS
Mondriaan Fund Stipendium for Established Artists
Mondriaan Fund Stipendium for Established Artists
Shortlist Wim Izaks Award
Louise Bourgeois Fellowship
Stichting Schurmann-Krant Fellowship
COMMITTEES
Head of Jury for Jeanne Oosting Price for painting
TEACHING
Lecturer Fine Art,Painting at AKI ArtEZ,
Academy for Art & Design
Tutor Image and Media Technology at HKU, Hilversum
2020
2018
2016
2016
2015
2014
2011
2010
2010
2009
2020
2020
2019
2019
2019
2017
2017
2016
2016
2015
2015
2014
2014
2014
2013
2013
2012
2012
2012
2012
2011
2011
2011
2010
2010
2010
2009
2009
2008
2008
2007 & 2006
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Extended studio
PuntWG, Amsterdam
Babooshka-ya-ya!
CINNNAMON, Rotterdam
Oh! When love is gone, where does it go?
Heden, Den Haag
Smoke Signals
Galerie Sturm, Nuremberg, Germany
A Cat Under the Blankets (with Just Quist)
WHATSPACE, Tilburg
ZzzzzZzzZzz
Anna Zorina gallery, New York
I Know It When I See It
MKgalerie, Rotterdam
Curiously Human II
MKgalerie, Rotterdam
Curiously Human
Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
The Full Story II
Art Amsterdam, MKgalerie
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)
Nocturne
Logman gallery, Utrecht
Heden Highlights
Heden, Den Haag
My Biggest Small
SHOWHOUSE JAYJAY, Art Antwerp Weekend
Fresh Windows
Galerie Roger Katwijk, Amsterdam
Paper Works
ALBADA JELGERSMA, Amsterdam
Oog in Oog – Topstukken uit de collectie
Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
We Like Art
Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam
Portretten uit de Heden Collectie
Heden, Den Haag
Lust For Life: Painting Today
We Like Art, Amsterdam
Faces
Anna Zorina Gallery, New York
Daar komen de putters
Kasteel Keukenhof, Lisse
Art Hampton
Anna Zorina Gallery, New York
I am not doing anything until I feel the need
De Nederlandse Bank, Amsterdam
Primitive – Prime Time
Anna Zorina Gallery, New York
The Air Near My Fingers
Provincie Huis Noord-Holland, Haarlem
As Tears Go By
Cokkie Snoei, Rotterdam
Figuratively: The Human Figure in Art
Museum Hilversum
From a Painter’s Perspective
Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
Het Ongerijmde
Tricot (Stichting Wim Izaks), Winterswijk
New Acquisitions AMC collection
Brummelkamp Galerie and AMC, Amsterdam
What’s Up? New Dutch contemporary painting
Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht
New Acquisitions Erasmus MC collection
Erasmus galerie, Rotterdam
Art Rotterdam
MKgalerie, Rotterdam
Pulse Miami
MKgalerie, Miami, Florida
ARTSCHOOL/UK and its Observers
Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
Art Amsterdam
MKgalerie, Rotterdam
Art Rotterdam
MKgalerie, Rotterdam
FAWC Fellows
Museum Provincetown, Massachusetts
New Painters
Galerie LUMC, Leiden
The Present of the Future
MKgalerie, Berlin, Germany
Rijksakademie Open
Rijksakademie, Amsterdam
2010
2019
2015
2012
2012
2011
2010
2019
2016
2013
2013
2011
2011
2009
2008
2007
2020
2019
2019
2019
2019
2018
2016
2016
2015
2014
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2010
2010
2010
2010
2009
ARTIST MONOGRAPH
Micha Patiniott: Curiously Human
with essays by Rob Perrée and Diana Wind
published by Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
WORK IN COLLECTIONS
Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, NL
Bouwfonds Kunstcollectie, NL
Eneco collectie, NL
AMC collectie, NL
Plancius collection, NL
Arthema Foundation collection, NL
Erasmus MC collection, NL
Heden collectie, NL
CBK Rotterdam, NL
Amma Foundation, Mexico
Private collections in the Netherlands, Belgium
and US
EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
A Building that Radiates Art
AMC Art collection
Daar komen de Putters
Kunstzaken Kasteel Keukenhof
Figuurlijk / Figuratively
Museum Hilversum – text by Nathanja van Dijk
From a Painter’s Perspective
Arti et Amicitiae – text by Jurrian Benschop
What’s Up? New Dutch contemporary painting
Dordrechts Museum – text by drs MHAM Peters
ARTSCHOOL/UK and its Observers
Whitechapel Gallery London
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Nothing But Good; 31/3/2019,
‘Micha Patiniott & Philip Guston’
Nouveau ; Nr. 8, ‘Kunstestafette: Micha Patiniott’
Mister Motley; Nr. 023, Het Kantoor, ‘Bic Smile’
Stubenhocker Magazin nr. 2. Galerie Roy
Oxford American; ‘Back and Forth’ 2009
AMC Magazine; 01/6/2011, ‘Kijken is Voelen’,
Janneke Wesseling
Dossier; ‘Folding Paper, 2009’
Kunstbeeld; nr. 3 ‘ De Gaten van Micha Patiniott’
Rijksakademie Open; text by Valérie Mannaerts
REVIEWS
ArtDependence Magazine, 14/5/2020; interview
with Micha Patiniott by Dirk van Duffel
Kunst Blijft een Raadsel, 29/9/2019; review by
Paul Voors on ‘Fresh Windows’ at Roger Katwijk
Parool, 8/3/2019; review by Edo Dijksterhuis
on ‘Paper Works’ at Albada Jelgersma
Lost Painters, 15/9/2020; article by Niek Hendrix
on ‘Fresh Windows’ at Roger Katwijk
Lost Painters, 14/1/2020; article by Niek Hendrix
on ‘Babooshka-ya-ya!’ solo at CINNNAMON
Art Viewer: article on ‘Babooshka-ya-ya!’
solo at CINNNAMON
CHMKOOME; 6/12/16, article by Kees Koomen on
‘Oh! When love is gone, where does it go?
at Heden
Lost Painters; 13/2/2016, article on
Rotterdam Contemporary Artfair 2016
Lost Painters; 23/11/2015, article by Niek Hendrix
on ‘A Cat Under the Blankets’ at WHATSPACE
Wall Street International Art; article on
‘ZzzzzZzzZzz’ solo at Anna Zorina Gallery
Uncompromising Tang; 17/5/2014,
interview by Jason Mones
Trendbeheer; 2/3/2013, article by Jeroen Bosch
on ‘As Tears Go By’ at Cokkie Snoei
TUBELIGHT; 11/2/2012, ‘Re: Rotterdam -
Een waardig alternatief’ by Lilian Bense
Kunstbeeld; nr 12, ‘De jongste Nederlandse
Schilderkunst: Allesbehalve zwaar’,
Arjan Reinders on ‘What’s Up!’ at
Dordrechts Museum
Lost Painters; 10/10/2010, article by Niek Hendrix
on ‘Curiously Human’ at Stedelijk Museum
Schiedam
TUBELIGHT: 14/9/2010, review by Judith de Bruijn
“Schilderkunst met of zonder pretentie’
Volkskrant: 29/9/2010, ‘Micha Patiniott’,
article by Michiel Hogenboom
NRC; 19/7/2010, **** review by Lucette ter Borg
‘Patiniott toont weelderig riet en sappige weiden’
at Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
Trendbeheer; 14/7/2010, ‘Curiously Human’
at Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
TUBELIGHT; 2/2/2009, article by Loukie Hoos
on “Nieuwe Schilders’ at LUMC