MIA-NELLE DRØSCHLER

I believe.
I believe in creating
I believe in creating a transformation
It is about time to transform

you
me
us

we are all one
art can transform

NOW

OCTOBER / RESIDENCY
Danish Cultural Institute, IT

UPCOMING

DECEMBER / OPEN STUDIO
I would like to celebrate the transformation of my new studio, and will invite you all for a visit at OPEN STUDIO. More information will be available once the floor is dry.

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NEW STUDIO All the while I am working at my resid

NEW STUDIO

All the while I am working at my residency in Rome my dear partner is tearing down a wall to make my studio twice as big in our new farmhouse. He sends me pictures every now and then. He has taken time of his work to get it ready in time for me when I get back home. I am a lucky woman! Only downside is that we can’t keep the brick wall as it is due to the heating. I love the look of it as it is now. Can’t wait to come back home and see the result. Thank you darling!

#artiststudio
#newstudio
#bigstudio
#ilovehim

DAY 17 in Rome, and a selfie from the shadows. I

DAY 17 in Rome, and a selfie from the shadows.

I have entered a cave from which I write, draw, prepare, arrange, compose and look at nail polish. Once in a while I meet a human being. I do not know what time it is. I do not know what day it is. I am ticking. The work opens up for me, all the while I listen and follow. I have chased a ghost out of my room several times, and I cling to the author's mouth, which is constantly talking about Bernini. I am now sending an old-fashioned selfie from the shadows as I was getting too much sun. I feel good. Good Sunday to you at home, and around. I will be here at the residency for an other two weeks, even though the time does not really count.

PAPER CUT IN ROME Alongside preparing my performa

PAPER CUT IN ROME

Alongside preparing my performance I am creating a new series of collages using my drawings. I see them as fragments of the old city Rome, I piece them together in a different composition from the old. I don’t actually plan to experiment with new materials when I am at a residency, but it always happens. I can’t wait to show you all the new pieces when I am leaving.

#roma
#contemporarydrawing
#collages

ROMAs TIME IS OVER What was once is no more. I lu

ROMAs TIME IS OVER

What was once is no more. I lurk along the edges of Rome, and my painting. Here I once tried to keep the balance. Now it's not that hard. I'm saying goodbye. The transformation is already underway. I need to be with the painting a little more, and I need help to celebrate that an era is soon over. The performance is becoming more and more apparent. I look forward to deconstructing the painting.

#artperformance
#largescalepainting

THE PAINTING MUST DIE I am going to live and work

THE PAINTING MUST DIE

I am going to live and work at the Danish Institute in Rome in October. My plan is to destroy the painting I created there in 2016. The work is a large scale painting called 'A Tribute To Life'. It was created with the intention of destroying it again, an action I perform with some of my in- situ paintings. The painting those become a brief moment we can experience only during the exhibition period, and the painting will only continue 'living' in our memory.

However, the institute kindly asked me back then if I would consider to postpone destroying the painting, as they liked it so much. I agreed. It became part of their official auditorium. However, in 2018 I received an email that the painting very unfortunately had fallen down. I could not help to think that the painting truly had a life of its own. Did it commit suicide? Should I have destroyed it earlier?

The painting was professional installed, none of us understood how it could happen. The painting was broken. So I travelled to the institute, not to destroy it, but to restore it.

Time has come to finally put an end to the painting. Now I will destroy it. How and when will be more clear to me once I am facing the painting again. But I know a ritual will be part of it, and I can not wait to finally complete the work, as it has always been the intention of destroying it completely.

#largsescalepainting
#sitespecificpainting
#performance
#roma

SWEET DREAMS ARE MADE OF THIS

He wanted a pink’ish bedroom and I asked if it was okay to wake up in a chaotic flower arrangement as well. Of course he said. We are slowly decorating the indoor areas of our country house. I have also promised that I won’t paint a wall painting in every single room. I think.

#wallpainting
#paintingisaboutcolor
#indoorjungle
#flowerpaintings

EXPANDING STUDIO We are merging the down stair st

EXPANDING STUDIO

We are merging the down stair studio now, well, my partner is. I am just pretending to help as my body is yet not fully recovered. But I am over exited to get the new spacious studio up and going. Now it looks like a hole in the ground, but everything has a beginning.

#artistsstudio

WHEN WORDS ARE WORDS Here I am dressed up a

WHEN WORDS ARE WORDS

Here I am dressed up as one of my alter egos dancing in a painting installatIon of mine. It has been a while since I have created a sitespecific painting in which I do a performance. Well, so it feels. For these installations I normally read one of my texts, as I am fascinated with how painting, space, body and voice can co exist. But for quite a while I have been writing trying to find a form which transforms my words into literature rather than a performance. It is a bit like jumping out of an airplane hoping to land on my feet. I will never get used to how much it takes to keep on creating in the utter anxiety of not knowing. But I cannot live without this adrenaline, and I learn so much!

#sitespecificpainting
#artperformance
#text
#alterego

ROMA – HERE I COME I am still trying to get us

ROMA – HERE I COME

I am still trying to get used to live in a more or less normal world again after the lockdown. Meaning among other things that we can travel again.

I am therefore very grateful to travel to Rome in October to live and work at the Danish Institute for a month. Two years ago I went there where I among other things created a series of prints.

In this one I captured myself in my favorite building: Pantheon. I can not wait to revisit Pantheon, the Danish Instititute and the city again. It is a city which has made a profound impact in my art practice as it allows me the opportunity to study the many historical frescos, wall- and ceiling paintings. And as some of you may know by now, then I am very exited about the site specific painting.

And then I can not wait to see what kind of artworks I will produce this time. Thank you for the grant!

#detdanskeinstitutiRom
#roma

TRANSFORMATION I sometimes consider to create a b

TRANSFORMATION

I sometimes consider to create a book of all the pictures I take from my studio and studiowall. But in some sense they are very private, why I normally don´t like to share what I write on my wall next to my paintings. I also take them down if someone come to visit my studio. They are my secret words. However, it is always nice to revisit them. And as time goes by the words become less private. Even though I feel shame about not being more original in these words as seen here, then they function as an important method when I am in a profound transformation in my art (and life). The transformation is still happening, I can not see clearly where it is going yet, but I trust that it will be more revealed to me as I continue working. This picture is captured three years ago at my residency at Bethanien in Berlin in 2018. Some transformations take longer than others.

#bethanien
#paintingnotes
#studiowall
#womanpainter

A FLOWER ON MY CHEEK We actually didn´t plan thi

A FLOWER ON MY CHEEK

We actually didn´t plan this to happen; as the photograph was taken one of the leafs from the tree passed my cheek at that very moment. SMILE!

#portrait
#nature
#assistenskirkegården

Photographer: @sofiehave

When one matches the artwork. Captured at Kapellet

When one matches the artwork. Captured at Kapellet in Roskilde as part of the group exhibition corner

#borntomatch
#womanpainter

Just a little glimpse of my everyday life in my st

Just a little glimpse of my everyday life in my studio. Oh my, I love having brushes and colors within reach. It is like medicine.

@trineleonoreberg photographer

I AM BIRD OCTOPUS HEDGEHOG Acrylic on canvas 1

I AM
BIRD
OCTOPUS
HEDGEHOG

Acrylic on canvas
100 cm x 80 xm
2019

Two years ago I created this painting. It was quite mad, as I was running a two week painting summer workshop. During the weekend in between these two very intense weeks, where I am normally totally exhausted from teaching, I created this painting as a spontaniuos reaction to all my wonderful artstudents.

I always say that my artstudents inspire me the most. For over a decade I have been teaching over hundred of artstudents, the many questions, reflections and sometimes discussions keep my brain and eyes focused. I learn so much from them, and they give my the courage to practice what I teach: always seek new ways out of my comfort zone, putting my artwork before any other (commercial) interests and fully immerse myself in creating.

This painting is one of my first paintings I created with an intention of dissolving the gravity adding elements of my own inner journey. Many more were to follow, which I didn't realize at the time.

#painting
#womanpainter
#subconsciousmind

AUCH! DELETED PAINTING no. 45363 or something li

AUCH!
DELETED PAINTING no. 45363
or something like that!

My biggest enemy is myself.
Way to often I erase paintings which are quite good as I can be sooooooo impatient. I absoloutely love creating paintings on my intuition. However, I sometimes go beyond this state and press delete delete delete. As I can not see the quality of the painting while painting, such as did one. I just found a picture of it while is was still on my studiowall, I deleted it few moments after this picture were taken. I can really learn what I am teaching; to paint is also NOT to paint.

#infailureIlearn
#paintings
#oilpaintings
#artiststudio
#womanpainter
#intuition

UNTITLED Oil on canvas 60 cm x 50 cm 2021 #nat

UNTITLED

Oil on canvas
60 cm x 50 cm
2021

#nature
#contemporarylandscapepainting
#oilpainting
#womanartist

MY TOTEMS A few years ago I created a number of

MY TOTEMS

A few years ago I created a number of sculptures in unfired clay. They are my totems, and have been shown in many of my exhibitions ever since. I am now working on a new body of sculptures, they are larger in scale, and I am using different materials. However, I love looking back at these early artworks as they were entirely created on intuition. I truly do believe that it is significant to counter reaction to the intellectual movements such as minimalist and conceptual art that has neglected the art’s ability to activate the imagination, and give way to human emotions. Therefore, all my works are carried out in the intuitive and spontaneous nature.

#sculpture
#womanartist
#totems
#intuition

ISOLA – NOW WE CAN MEET AGAIN During lockdown a

ISOLA – NOW WE CAN MEET AGAIN

During lockdown architect Filip Juhl created an ideal virtual museum building for my artwork. Knowing I have shared it before, then I can not help looking back at it today with a special feeling in my heart. Filip was sitting isolated in his house creating this wonderful building, while I was working isolated at my home studio preparing the artworks. An online private view took place via Zoom. Even my art tutor from art school in London attended. It was surreal, stunning and very moving. New ways of meeting, creating and reflecting appeared in this period and today I love this ideal exhibition space where space and art are united. Please see link in bio for the full animation.

Now all art venues are open again. During this weekend Copenhagen is booming with commercial artfairs, and yesterday I went to see a play at the theater Mungo Park my friend had written having dinner with my friends at a restaurant before. We were sitting shoulder to shoulder filling up the space immersing ourselves to the art on the stage. Tomorrow I will go and see the artfairs, today I will spend most of the day in a yogastudio. It is weird that I need some time getting used to seeing people gathered in spaces again.

#virtualartexhibition
#lockdownart
#painter
#womanpainter
#paintingisaboutcolour
@atelier_filip_juhl

JEG ER MØRKERÆD Jeg elsker landet, og huset, o

JEG ER MØRKERÆD

Jeg elsker landet, og huset, og dyrene, både dem som jeg ejer, og de mange som kommer på besøg i haven.

Jeg nyder at være sammen med det gamle land, her er ingen elmaster, men en horisont, hvor jeg hver dag ønsker solen godnat. Og så kommer mørket. Det er tykt som et tæppe, mit hjerte banker hårdt i mit bryst, og jeg bliver ærgerlig over, at jeg er så bange i mørket. Jeg kryber sammen, og siger til min hjerne, at den skal holde op med at afspille gyserfilm, og løbe af med alle de forestillinger om hvad kan være i mørket.

Da huset forleden aften var fyldt op med kærlige venner, listede jeg mig ud i mørket. Jeg stod under egetræet, og blev grebet af panik, da en ugle sad få meter over mig og begyndte sin alarm. Uh uuuuhhhh! Alle gyserfilm kom væltende tilbage til mig, vennerne rejste hjem nogle dage efter, og jeg går stadig ud til uglen hver aften og lytter til dens kald. Jeg har aldrig set den. Jeg kryber mindre sammen, og håber at jeg en dag bliver lige så tryg i natten, som jeg kan være i dagen.

Olie på lærred
60 cm x 50 cm
2021

#oilpainting
#owl
#paintingisaboutcolor
#womanpainter

Nature never fails. Captured from my kitchen windo

Nature never fails. Captured from my kitchen window this morning.

#deer
#mother
#natureishealing

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