Mirjam Pézsa
After studying Art History and Fine Arts at the Sorbonne University in Paris, France, I pursued further studies in Film and Media Studies, Fine Arts, Aesthetic Communication, and Psychology in Germany. Following this, I entered the media and marketing industry, working in marketing and creative direction as a copywriter, producer, and director, as well as a creative lead for marketing campaigns for well-known TV personalities and brands. Alongside personal and creative branding, I have developed extensive concepts and advertising copy, and created and produced audiovisual communication strategies and branding campaigns for TV commercials and corporate films. In the 1990s, she began her own artistic work with photographs, texts, collages, and object-based pieces. She discovered printmaking and monotype techniques and engaged intensively with painting. She studied drawing and painting with various renowned teachers and academies, including the Free Academy of Fine Arts Salzburg and the Academy of Fine Arts Kolbermoor under Prof. Markus Lüpertz.
Master student of Markus Lüpertz.
Lives and works in Cologne, Germany.
My work in the Studio
As an artist I’m not interested in existing realities but in those that only become visible through painting. The search for these own pictorial worlds determines my work as a painter. The process of painting itself often fascinates, which, once started, evolves as if by itself. The pictorial problem, which ultimately brings with it any argument with the canvas or a blank sheet, captivates with the promise of having a result ready in response. Each answer, however, is replaced by a new question that raises the work in the making. Thus, the actual image idea often overtakes itself, and becomes something unforeseen in the development process. The viewer is invited to another universe, to a ‘own seeing’. Existing results are continuously developed and their quality questioned.