Micha Patiniott makes quiet, atmospheric paintings in which bodies, objects and surfaces hover between recognition and disappearance. A sheet of paper, a fold, an opening, a loop or a body part can shift from thing to body, from surface to space, from sign to sensation.
Through painting, Patiniott explores the unstable relation between material presence and immaterial charge. Muted color, blurred edges and subtle shifts of scale reduce the image without emptying it: what remains becomes charged and open. The paintings hold perception in motion, between intimacy and distance, desire and emptiness, the everyday and the cosmic.
Patiniott was a resident artist at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam.
with generous support of the mondriaan fund
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artist's book VELLLLUM
edition of 100, signed and numbered
a turn in its line / tomorrow is my turn, installation view, 2025
FLUUUUX
2025
PEEEEP
2025
POWWW
2025
THUUUD
2025
LOOOP
2025
with generous support
a turn in its line / tomorrow is my turn, installation view, 2025
Drop I, 2023, oil on canvas. 40 × 35 cm
The Turning , oil on canvas, 38 x 64 cm, 2022
Vellum XVI , oil on canvas, 38 x 64 cm, 2022
Paletet I, 2024, oil on canvas, 50 × 40 cm
Pulse I, 2022, oil on canvas, 45 × 35 cm
Peak I, 2025, oil on canvas, 50 × 40 cm
Vellum XXIV - after Two Letters (2009), 2025, oil on canvas, 45 × 40 cm
