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Touch I, oil on canvas, 65 x 40 cm, 2024
Micha Patiniott creates atmospheric, lyrical minimalist paintings of everyday objects and processes in flux, blurring the boundaries between the mundane, the profane, the cosmic, and the mystical. Close-up subjects, such as a blank sheet of paper, the pulse of intimate body parts, the curving of a mathematical object, or the ambiguity of a turning portrait, are transformed into sensuous otherworldliness.
Patiniott was a resident artist at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam during 2006-2007 and at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown during 2008-2009 and 2023-2024. International solo and group exhibitions include the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam; PuntWG (Amsterdam); Cinnamon (Rotterdam); Heden (Den Haag); WHATSPACE (Tilburg); MKgalerie (Rotterdam/Berlin); Galerie Sturm (Nuremberg); Dordrechts Museum; Whitechapel Gallery (London); Arti et Amicitiae (Amsterdam); Museum Hilversum; the Provincetown Art Association and Museum; Provinciehuis Noord-Holland (Haarlem); and Anna Zorina Gallery (New York).
Dutch visual artist Micha Patiniott works at the intersection of painting and text, blurring the line between the mundane and the mystical.
VELLLLUM is a non-linear artist book composed of atmospheric paintings, visual poems, and essays that explore the porous boundaries between image, language, and perception. Patiniott examines vellum as both metaphor and material: a permeable membrane that serves as painting surface, page, and carrier of ambient syntax.
This new body of work reflects on sensuality, emptiness, and the tension between the seen and the sensed. Drawing from art history, mysticism, pop culture, and speculative thought, the book opens spaces of suspended identity.
Design: Thomas Payne
Edition of 100, signed and numbered.
Price: €35 (excl. shipping).
To order, send me an email: micha.patiniott@gmail.com
Peak I, oil on canvas, 50 x 40 cm, 2024
Vellum series
Vellum explores the fold between image and substrate, presence and disappearance. Each work begins with the figure of a paper, creased, curled, or void—an ordinary support turned into a speculative surface. These sheets suggest potential: a letter not yet written, a history not yet told, or a gesture paused mid-formation. Through shifts in texture, shadow, and repetition, the series meditates on time, memory, and the recursive act of looking. Images sometimes surface as fragments from other works or art histories, absorbed into the paper’s skin like echoes or ruptures. Vellum unfolds as both trace and threshold.
Vellum IV (Yellow Thermal Paper), Vellum VI, Vellum VII / Rapture I, Vellum V (after a Trompe l’Oeil of an Etching by Ferdinand Bol, c. 1675); installation at Provincetown Art Association and Museum, 2024
Vellum VIII, 45 x 40 cm, oil on canvas, 2023
Vellum XXII (Body of Work - after 'The Incredulity of Saint Thomas by Caravaggio, 1603), 45 x 40 cm, oil on canvas, 2024
Vellum XXI (Loud Shirt), 45 x 40 cm, oil on canvas, 2024
Vellum X, 45 x 40 cm, oil on canvas, 2024
Vellum XXIII - Caesura, 45 x 40 cm, oil on canvas, 2024
Vellum VI, 45 x 40 cm, oil on canvas, 2023
Vellum XXIV - Back and Forth 45 x 40 cm, oil on canvas, 2025
Vellum XXIII - Dialogue 45 x 40 cm, oil on canvas, 2025
Vellum V (after a Trompe l’Oeil of an Etching by Ferdinand Bol, c. 1675), 45 x 40 cm, oil on canvas, 2023
Vellum I, oil on canvas, 45 x 35 cm, 2023
Vellum VII (Rapture I), 45 x 38 cm, oil on canvas, 2023
Vellum XI (Princess X by Constantin Brâncuși, 1916), 45 x 38 cm, oil on canvas, 2024
Vellum X, Vellum IX, Vellum XI (Princess X by Constantin Brâncuși, 1916), Vellum XIII, 2024
Vellum XII (Analemma), oil on canvas, 45 x 40 cm, 2024
Turning Portraits series
Turning Portraits is a meditation on the act of looking while turning or shifting. Faces become elusive, partially withheld, caught in moments of hesitation or retreat. These works explore the tension between presence and withdrawal, intimacy and distance, inviting the viewer into the unsettled space between recognition and unknowing. The portrait becomes less a record of identity than a reflection on the gaze itself—its limits, desires, and refusals.
The Turning II, The Turning I, The Turning V, The Turning III; installation, 2022 / 2023
The Turning II, oil on canvas, 38 x 64 cm, 2022
The Turning I, oil on canvas, 38 x 64 cm, 2022
The Turning V, oil on canvas, 38 x 64 cm, 2023
The Turning III, oil on canvas, 38 x 64 cm, 2023
Celestial Bodies: Rapture
Celestial Bodies – Rapture explores the push and pull between exposure and ambiguity, sensation and silence. The works evoke both bodily intensity and a kind of drifting, tracing thresholds where the explicit becomes unknowable. While rooted in the physical and sensual, their ambiguous abstraction opens into an uncertain space. Here, the body loses solidity and slips into something porous, into shimmer and grain, more atmosphere than form.
Rapture I, Rapture III; installation 2024
Rapture III, oil on canvas, 105 x 65 cm, 2023
Rapture VII, oil on canvas, 105 x 65 cm, 2024
Rapture IV, oil on canvas, 65 x 40 cm, 2023
Celestial Bodies: Klein Bottle
Klein Bottle is a series of paintings that fold inward and outward at once, exploring form without inside or outside. Inspired by the paradoxical geometry of the Klein bottle—a surface that loops through itself without boundary—the works suggest a vessel turned in on itself, porous and recursive. Soft reflections and subtle ruptures imagine the body as both volume and passage.
Klein Bottle III, oil on canvas, 40 x 45 cm, 2023
Klein Bottle I, oil on canvas, 55 x 40 cm, 2023
Klein Bottle II, oil on canvas, 45 x 35 cm, 2023
Portal II, oil on canvas, 40 x 45 cm, 2022
Portal I, oil on canvas, 40 x 45 cm, 2021
Klein Bottle IV, Analemma II; installation 2024
Celestial Bodies: Analemma
An analemma captures the figure-eight trajectory traced by the Sun or Moon in the sky, as seen from a fixed location on Earth across various dates within a year. In the Analemma paintings, this lemniscate pattern morphs into an ambiguous and sensuous motif.
It alludes to celestial movements while evoking the image of a pearl necklace, serving as a metaphor that bridges the everyday with the cosmic, the minute with the immense.
Analemma II, oil on canvas, 105 x 60 cm, 2024
Analemma I, oil on canvas, 65 x 40 cm, 2024
Canonically Speaking series
The project Canonically Speaking brings the writing of Mila Lanfermeijer and the paintings of Micha Patiniott in a publication of short stories published by Kunstverein Amsterdam in February 2024. Text and images converge in pursuit of understanding identity and perception as fluid and ever-changing concepts.
The series embraces the absurd, the surreal, and the transcendental as vehicles to question conventional notions of self and reality. Viewers are invited to engage with themes related to self-image, spirituality, mental states, mental health, and the public versus private sphere.
Canonically Speaking series, installation, 2024
The Crown, oil on canvas, 47 x 37 cm, 2023
Soft Touch, oil on canvas, 47 x 40 cm, 2023
Blink series
Blink II, oil on canvas, 60 x 55 cm, 2020
Blink I, oil on canvas, 60 x 55 cm, 2020
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Touch I, oil on canvas, 65 x 40 cm, 2024
Micha Patiniott creates atmospheric, lyrical minimalist paintings of everyday objects and processes in flux, blurring the boundaries between the mundane, the profane, the cosmic, and the mystical. Close-up subjects, such as a blank sheet of paper, the pulse of intimate body parts, the curving of a mathematical object, or the ambiguity of a turning portrait, are transformed into sensuous otherworldliness.
VELLLLUM is a non-linear artist book composed of atmospheric paintings, visual poems, and essays that explore the porous boundaries between image, language, and perception. Patiniott examines vellum as both metaphor and material: a permeable membrane that serves as painting surface, page, and carrier of ambient syntax.
Edition of 100, signed and numbered.
Price: €35 (excl. shipping).
To order, send me an email: micha.patiniott@gmail.com
Peak I, oil on canvas, 50 x 40 cm, 2024
Rapture I, Vellum III, Vellum VIII; installation at Provincetown Art Association and Museum, 2024
Vellum series
Vellum IV (Yellow Thermal Paper), Vellum VI, Vellum VII / Rapture I, Vellum V (after a Trompe l’Oeil of an Etching by Ferdinand Bol, c. 1675); installation at Provincetown Art Association and Museum, 2024
Vellum VIII, 45 x 40 cm, oil on canvas, 2023
The ‘Vellum’ series seeks to meditate on time, memory, and ephemerality, as it explores themes of potentiality, flux, presence and absence, through the representation of an ordinary, often overlooked object — a sheet of paper.
Vellum XXII (Body of Work - after 'The Incredulity of Saint Thomas by Caravaggio, 1603), 45 x 40 cm, oil on canvas, 2024
Vellum XXI (Loud Shirt), 45 x 40 cm, oil on canvas, 2024
Vellum VI, 45 x 40 cm, oil on canvas, 2023
Vellum X, 45 x 40 cm, oil on canvas, 2024
Vellum XXIII - Caesura, 45 x 40 cm, oil on canvas, 2024
Vellum XXIV - Back and Forth 45 x 40 cm, oil on canvas, 2025
Vellum XXIII - Dialogue 45 x 40 cm, oil on canvas, 2025
Vellum V (after a Trompe l’Oeil of an Etching by Ferdinand Bol, c. 1675), 45 x 40 cm, oil on canvas, 2023
Vellum VII (Rapture I), 45 x 38 cm, oil on canvas, 2023
Vellum XI (Princess X by Constantin Brâncuși, 1916), 45 x 38 cm, oil on canvas, 2024
Vellum I, oil on canvas, 45 x 35 cm, 2023
Vellum X, Vellum IX, Vellum XI (Princess X by Constantin Brâncuși, 1916), Vellum XIII, 2024
Vellum XII (Analemma), oil on canvas, 45 x 40 cm, 2024
Turning Portraits series
Turning Portraits is a meditation on the act of looking while turning or shifting. Faces become elusive, partially withheld, caught in moments of hesitation or retreat. These works explore the tension between presence and withdrawal, intimacy and distance, inviting the viewer into the unsettled space between recognition and unknowing. The portrait becomes less a record of identity than a reflection on the gaze itself—its limits, desires, and refusals.
The Turning II, The Turning I, The Turning V, The Turning III; installation, 2022 / 2023
The Turning II, oil on canvas, 38 x 64 cm, 2022
The Turning I, oil on canvas, 38 x 64 cm, 2022
The Turning V, oil on canvas, 38 x 64 cm, 2023
The Turning III, oil on canvas, 38 x 64 cm, 2023
Celestial Bodies: Rapture
Celestial Bodies – Rapture explores the push and pull between exposure and ambiguity, sensation and silence. The works evoke both bodily intensity and a kind of drifting, tracing thresholds where the explicit becomes unknowable. While rooted in the physical and sensual, their ambiguous abstraction opens into an uncertain space. Here, the body loses solidity and slips into something porous, into shimmer and grain, more atmosphere than form.
Rapture I, Rapture III; installation 2024
Rapture III, oil on canvas, 105 x 65 cm, 2023
Rapture VII, oil on canvas, 105 x 65 cm, 2024
Rapture IV, oil on canvas, 65 x 40 cm, 2023
Celestial Bodies: Klein Bottle
Klein Bottle is a series of paintings that fold inward and outward at once, exploring form without inside or outside. Inspired by the paradoxical geometry of the Klein bottle—a surface that loops through itself without boundary—the works suggest a vessel turned in on itself, porous and recursive. Soft reflections and subtle ruptures imagine the body as both volume and passage.
Klein Bottle III, oil on canvas, 40 x 45 cm, 2023
Klein Bottle I, oil on canvas, 55 x 40 cm, 2023
Klein Bottle II, oil on canvas, 45 x 35 cm, 2023
Portal II, oil on canvas, 40 x 45 cm, 2022
Portal I, oil on canvas, 40 x 45 cm, 2021
Klein Bottle IV, Analemma II; installation 2024
Celestial Bodies: Analemma
An analemma captures the figure-eight trajectory traced by the Sun or Moon in the sky, as seen from a fixed location on Earth across various dates within a year. In the Analemma paintings, this lemniscate pattern morphs into an ambiguous and sensuous motif.
Analemma II, oil on canvas, 105 x 60 cm, 2024
It alludes to celestial movements while evoking the image of a pearl necklace, serving as a metaphor that bridges the everyday with the cosmic, the minute with the immense.
Analemma I, oil on canvas, 65 x 40 cm, 2024
Canonically Speaking series
The project Canonically Speaking brings the writing of Mila Lanfermeijer and the paintings of Micha Patiniott in a publication of short stories published by Kunstverein Amsterdam in February 2024. Text and images converge in pursuit of understanding identity and perception as fluid and ever-changing concepts.
Canonically Speaking series, installation, 2024
The Crown, oil on canvas, 47 x 37 cm, 2023
Soft Touch, oil on canvas, 47 x 40 cm, 2023
Blink series
Blink II, oil on canvas, 60 x 55 cm, 2020
Blink I, oil on canvas, 60 x 55 cm, 2020