Born in 1979. Lives and works in Berlin.
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TRAINING
2007-2008: Training in sculpture and ceramics, Villa Thiole, Nice (FR) - France
2005: Postgraduate Certificate in Visual Communication, LCC, University of the Arts London
1999-2002: Conservation of Organic Materials, Camberwell College of Arts & Crafts,
University of the Arts London - 1997: Art Foundation course, Chelsea College of Art.
EXHIBITIONS
2022: Hot Mess, Berlin (DE)
2021 : Vessels, Berlin (DE) - Sculptural
Connections, Berlin (DE) - Unblock Art Fair, Studios ID, Berlin (DE).
French-Palestinian artist Maia Beyrouti questions the identity of people and things.
When working with ceramic materials, she asks herself «at what point does one thing become another? In 2007, in addition to her academic artistic training, she was attracted by the transformation of matter, and decided to take a ceramics course.
She is interested in the phenomena of accumulation, superimposition and collapse during transformation by fire. Recently, she found inspiration for her work at the Berlin Museum of Natural History. During her visits, she takes notes, sketches and photographs. The resulting series articulates different ceramic elements on the borderline between form and formlessness (...)
Find the full text in the 2023 exhibition catalog.
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