“I approach my work not conceptually but physically — more like a sculptor, exploring form and material step by step.”
Approach and Focus
My work explores the tension between geometry, materiality, and perception — both visual and tactile. I create geometric wall-based works that shift between surface and space, clarity and movement, questioning the fragile boundary between real and imaginary.
What interests me is not representation, but resonance: how a piece can subtly shift perception, create stillness, or evoke a sensory response.
Process and Material
At the heart of my practice lies a slow, craft-based process. Like a sculptor, I shape my work step by step, assembling reduced geometric forms from materials such as steel, leather, concrete, wood, and gypsum. The resulting compositions rest quietly, yet remain open to transformation and new perception.
Experience and Intention
Through a refined formal language and materiality, I seek to create spaces where stillness can be felt and curiosity awakened — inviting lingering, sensing, and discovery beyond words. In this reduction to essentials, a quiet strength and elegance emerge, to be felt rather than explained.
Booth at MADE, São Paulo, 2018
Ph: Allan Benigno Machado
Background & Education
Miriam Loellmann (b. 1985, Southern Germany) is a visual artist based in Rio de Janeiro with a background in Textile and Surface Design. From 2008 to 2013, she studied at the Weißensee School of Art in Berlin, where she was deeply influenced by Japanese guest professor Masayo Ave, who emphasized the importance of sensory perception — especially the sense of touch.
Turning Point: Rio de Janeiro
In late 2013, six months after graduating, Loellmann relocated to Rio de Janeiro — a move that proved pivotal to the formation of her artistic practice. Immersed in a new cultural and material environment, she began to refine her independent studio work, embracing experimentation and laying the foundations of her professional career.
Artistic Practice
Loellmann creates clear, serene, and tactile wall pieces that explore the space between two and three dimensions, the visible and the imagined, the material and the felt. Using geometric forms and contrasting materials, she invites a sensory experience that unfolds slowly — not to be intellectually decoded, but quietly perceived. Her process is meditative, precise, and rooted in craftsmanship.
Today
Miriam Loellmann lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, where she continues to develop her artistic practice. Selected works are available through the curated design platform The Oblist as well as directly through the artist.
Booth at MADE, São Paulo, 2018
Selected CV:
Exhibitions
2022-2026: Private Showroom, Rio de Janeiro (by appointment)
2024: Centro Cultural Correios, Rio de Janeiro (group show)
2017: Private Rooftop, Rio de Janeiro (solo)
Art and Design Fairs
2022: MADE, São Paulo (group show)
2018: MADE, São Paulo (solo)
2017: IDA/ArteRio, Rio de Janeiro (solo)
2016: IDA/ArteRio, Rio de Janeiro (solo)
Commissions & Permanent Installations
2014/15: Ipanema Wall, Design Hotel Chez Georges, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2014: Copacabana Floor, Private Residence, Maastricht, NL
Selected Collections
2026: Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom
2025: Brazil, Germany
2024: Germany
2023: Brazil, France, Germany
2022: The Netherlands
2021: Germany
2020: Germany
2019: Germany
2017: Brazil
Publications
2025: Volume One (2014–2024) — Handmade artist book documenting the first ten years of Miriam Loellmann's artistic practice.
If you would like to learn more about my work, discuss a project, or inquire about available works, I would be delighted to hear from you.
Contact
contact@studiomiriamloellmann.com