Maura Biava 1979

Lives in Amsterdam. Works in Amsterdam.

Represented by:

Galerie Caroline O'Breen

The work of Maura Biava is inspired by the hidden laws of nature. The regular forms of the organic world originate according to certain rules, information and energy. As an artist Biava wishes to find ways to make her work according to those principles.
During the last decades Biava has been working with analytic geometry and mathematics to create, understand and work with shapes. The interaction between information and matter informs and shapes what we see, it forms our reality. To show this interaction in her work Biava uses clay, as the matter, and mathematics and numbers, as the information. At the same time Biava works and shows the energy that is involved and generated in the making. She shows the energy by making the performative aspect of her work visible on the basis of photographic works that she combines with sculptures. She considers the work process as part of the artwork. She regards matter as entangled with the information and a phenomena in becoming.

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Artworks by Maura Biava

Beach Collection (in collaboration with Saskia van Drimmelen)

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Solo exhibition Maura Biava - Escher in Het Paleis (The Hague, NL). Installation view, 2024

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On Biava's work:

Maura Biava searches the sensible vitality of form and dilates its skin in space. Her work is always acting on the psychophysical perceptive apparatus of the viewer and not only on a psychological and cultural level. Each work implies symbolic meanings but at the same time works in its most immediate perception; so it can allow both an intellectual and an emotional perception, there is an interchange between the mathematical data (which is given as the model) and the pure emotion of these basic geometric shapes that correspond to regular forms of the organic world.

Marco Tagliaferro

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Nature * Patterns

Emily Joyce, Anne Geene, Maura Biava

25 jun - 27 aug 2022, Amsterdam, Nederland

Art Rotterdam 2021

Tanja Engelberts, Maura Biava, Antoinette Nausikaä, Jaya Pelupessy, Satijn Panyigay

1 jul - 4 jul 2021, Amsterdam, Nederland

The Natural

Diana Scherer, Tanja Engelberts, Maura Biava, Anne Geene, Antoinette Nausikaä, Margaret Lansink

11 jan - 29 feb 2020, Amsterdam, Nederland

PAN Amsterdam

Maura Biava, Sofie Knijff, Laurence Aëgerter, Anastasia Samoylova, Satijn Panyigay

23 nov - 1 dec 2019, Amsterdam, Nederland

The Artist Mind: 8 Artists Photograph Themselves

Maura Biava, Laurence Aëgerter, Satijn Panyigay

13 jan - 24 feb 2018, Amsterdam, Nederland

In museum collection:

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Stedelijk Museum Het Domein

Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen

In corporate collection:

AkzoNobel

De Nederlandsche Bank

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Maura Biava (Reggio Emilia, Italy, 1970) lives and works in Amsterdam. She graduated at the Academy of Brera in Milan (1992) and at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam (1999). As a multimedia artist her work took her to several specialized residencies all over the world. She has been in residence at the European Ceramic Work Center – Sunday Morning, s’Hertogenbosch (2008); at the American Academy in Roma (2010-2011); at the Museum Carlo Zauli, Faenza, Italy (2013); at the ISCP New York (2014) and at Le Maupas A.I.R. France (2017).
Since her graduation Biava has exhibited all over the world. Her works are part of collections like Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Stedelijk Museum De Domijnen, Sittard, Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen, Akzo Nobel Art Foundation, Arnhem and De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam. Since 2005 she teaches at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, and in 2015 and 2016 she also taught at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam.

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