bio

Mia Paller (1995, Ljubljana, Slovenia) graduated in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia). The Academy awarded her with the Recognition of Study Achievements for the academic year 2015/16.

In 2018, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia rewarded her with a scholarship for master studies in fine arts and design abroad. In September 2018, Mia Paller thus enrolled in a two-year master course Lens-Based Media Design at Piet Zwart Institute (Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, the Netherlands). She graduated from the course with the thesis Photograph – index – Drawing in July 2020.

Her short animations were screened on several festivals in Slovenia and abroad (Animateka 13 – Ljubljana 2016; Slovenian Animated Film 2006-2017 – Celje 2018; Miasma in NeverLand Cinema – Rotterdam 2019; Miasma II in 504 – London 2019 etc.). Her experimental video Deliquescing was screened at EYE Research Days in EYE Filmmuseum Amsterdam (NL, 2020) and Alkatraz gallery (Ljubljana 2020). With her painting-drawing practice she explores the methods of collaging, appropriation and visual analogies. These works were on show in several group and solo exhibitions, among others in Equrna Gallery (Ljubljana 2018), Noorderstation Groningen (the Netherlands 2018), DobraVaga gallery (Ljubljana 2020) etc.

Mia Paller’s recent works echo her fascination for surfaces and the concepts such as subjectivity vs. objectivity of an image, trace and indexicality. Her recent production has been presented in solo exhibitions such as Artist per Month – Mia Paller: Trace in DobraVaga Gallery (Ljubljana 2019), City Traces in Hiša kulture (Pivka, SI, 2019) and Photoupsets in Layer House (Kranj, SI, 2019).

Mia Paller currently lives in Rotterdam (the Netherlands), working as a part-time assistant instructor at the Willem de Kooning Academy (Rotterdam), coaching students and teaching various (drawing) skills. As a maker, she is currently researching the practice between photography and painting.