Maura Biava — an Italian, Amsterdam-based artist — is intrigued by how the regular forms of the organic world originate according to specific mathematic rules. In her artistic practice, Biava aims to create works that follow the same
Maura Biava — an Italian, Amsterdam-based artist — is intrigued by how the regular forms of the organic world originate according to specific mathematic rules. In her artistic practice, Biava aims to create works that follow the same principles. “The interaction between information, matter and energy informs, and shapes what we see, it forms our reality,” says Maura Biava. To show this interaction in her work, she uses clay as matter, mathematics and numbers as information and her actions and hands at work as energy.
Maura Biava — an Italian, Amsterdam-based artist — is intrigued by how the regular forms of the organic world originate according to specific mathematic rules. In her artistic practice, Biava aims to create works that follow the same principles. “The interaction between
Maura Biava — an Italian, Amsterdam-based artist — is intrigued by how the regular forms of the organic world originate according to specific mathematic rules. In her artistic practice, Biava aims to create works that follow the same principles. “The interaction between information, matter and energy informs, and shapes what we see, it forms our reality,” says Maura Biava. To show this interaction in her work, she uses clay as matter, mathematics and numbers as information and her actions and hands at work as energy.
Academics
Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan, Italy.
Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions:
Nature * patterns, Gallery Caroline O’Breen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands in 2022
Breath, The Smallest Gallery, in passage de Hallen, Amsterdam in 2022
Spinning the stars, museum BAZ, The Hague, The Netherlands in 2021
Zero & Five, Gallery Caroline O'Breen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands in 2019
Form Informed, sculptures & prints, in the de Quistvitrine at the Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague, The Netherlands in 2019
Form Informed, book launch & exhibition of prints at Printed Matter, N.Y.C. U.S. in 2016
Group Exhibitions:
Experimentumcrucis, Ex Caserma Cassonello, Noto, Italy in 2022
All'ombra del... Contemporary Art project Villa Iblea, Sicila, Italy in 2021
The Natural, Galerie Caroline O'Breen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands in 2020
Point in time, 50 years EKWC, Priveekollektie gallery, Heusden, The Netherlands 2019
The Artist Mind: Eight Artists Photograph Themselves, Gallery Caroline O'Breen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2018
Ecovention Europe, Museum Contemporary Art De Domijnen, Sittard, The Netherlands in 2017
A preview to desolation, Italian Institute, New Delhi, India in 2017
Camps and Workhops:
Teaching: Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, The Netherlands
Residencies:
European Ceramic Work Center, s’Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands in 2008
American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy in 2010 & 2011
Museum Zauli, Faenza, Italy in 2013
ISCP, New York City, USA in 2014
Le Maupas A.I.R. France in 2017
IBB, Curacao, The Netherlands Antille in 2020 & 2022
Grants:
Project grant, Mondriaan Founds in 2021
IBB Curaçao, Mondriaan Founds in 2020 - 2022
Established Artist grant, Mondriaan Founds in 2018 - 2022
Basic grant, Mondriaan Founds in 2008 - 2012
Project studio Rome, Mondriaan Founds in 2010
Work grant, Mondriaan Founds in 2009
Basic grant, Mondriaan Founds in 2004 - 2008
Project grant, Mondriaan Founds in 2001
Work grant, Mondriaan Founds in 2000
Work grant, Mondriaan Founds in 1999
Study grant, Mondriaan Founds in 1997 - 1999
Collections:
Stedelijk Museum Het Domein, Sittard, The Netherlands
Kunstfort Centrum Voor actuele kunst, Vifhuizen, The Netherlands
Akzo Nobel Art Foundation, Arnhem, The Netherlands
De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and in a variety of private
