The works of Miriam Döring (she/her, they/them, born 1993 in Neuss, lives and works in Berlin) emerge from and witness a physical tension, agency, and urgency. Her own bodily perceptions are the motivation and re-source for the questions she poses in her artistic practice, which then unfold within her research into scars of capitalist historiography. Here, she addresses and challenges both scientific-medical and mythical narratives about the body, its (dis)functions and its relationship to its environment. By re-formulating narratives from the perspective of a historically marginalised (female-queer) subject, Miriam Döring demands to understand vulnerability and symptoms as moments of empowerment. In doing so, she negotiates the permeability of bodies, their responsiveness towards their immediate and structural surroundings, and speculates on bodies’ potential of world-sensing, -making, and being-intertwined.
Miriam Döring’s practice includes sculpture, installation, drawing, sound and video-/performance. Through the use of text and a somatic approach she situates her works in specific spatial and temporal contexts. This written as well as her material language move between the poetic and the sensitive, while at the same time bearing honest witness to the violent inscriptions of our present.
EDUCATION
2017 - 2024 University of Arts Berlin: Studies of Fine Arts, Meisterschüler*in Prof. Monica Bonvicini
2013 - 2017 University Paderborn: studies of Kunst und Kunstvermittlung and Mode-Textil-Design
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2024 Turn Illness into a Weapon — Artistic Perspectives Within Healthcare Movements, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin
2024 Napping in Density, KW Institute for Contemporary Arts, Berlin
2023 OSCILLATING ON SITE Class Bonvicini, UdK Berlin
2023 ddiiissssAPPEAARRiinnnggg Feldfünf, Berlin
2022 WHY DO YOU RETURN? Class Bonvicini, UdK Berlin
2020 Digital Physical - An Intimate Distance, Urban Space Exhibition through posters accessing Video Files via QR Code, Berlin
2019 optimum10, GlogauAir, Berlin
2019 From One To Many, Class Bonvicini, UdK Berlin
2018 CONLANG – Seen By #10, Museum für Fotografie, Berlin
2018 undisplay - 48h Neukölln, Alter Leuchtturm, Berlin
2015 EINSPRUCH, local district court, Paderborn
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Konstellationen des Wartens, Open Space Paderborn
2015 Miriam Döring, Kunstverein Paderborn
SCHOLARSHIPS / RESIDENCIES / REWARDS
2024 Ursula-Hanke-Förster-Preis
2024 nominated for Karl-Schmidt-Rottluff-Stipendium (ongoing)
2024 nominated for Karl Hofer Stipendium (ongoing)
2022 Nature Scribbles and Flesh Reads, Collective Research Residency by Praksis Oslo with Kajsa Dahlberg and Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, supported by Goethe-Institut Norwegen
2015 Dr.-Käthe-Sander-Wietfeld Förderpreis of Kunstverein Paderborn and Universität Paderborn
2014 Molino-Winkler-Grant, Studio Residency in Árchez (SPA)
PUBLICATIONS
2024 Turn Illness into a Weapon — Artistic Perspectives Within Healthcare Movements, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin
2024 Napping in Density, Verlag der Uniersität der Künste, Berlin
2023 Nature Scribbles and Flesh Reads, Artistic Publication contributions by Kajsa Dahlberg, Miriam Döring, Annike Flo, Sive Hamilton Helle, Eli Maria Lundgaard, malatsion, Lexie Owen, Rebekka Sæter and Ylva Westerlund, presented by PRAKSIS, Oslo; Book release at INDEX, Stockholm
2021 Drinnen Rosa Draußen Pink, Verlag der Uniersität der Künste, Berlin
2019 FROM ONE TO MANY, Verlag der Uniersität der Künste, Berlin
2017 IMPULSE No. 4 – Texte und Bilder zur Kunstvermittlung „Nach Zürich. Kunstvermittlung als Reise zur Kunst“, Verlag der Universität Paderborn
2015 EINSPRUCH, Verlag der Universität Paderborn
2015 Miriam Döring | Fläche (ent)falten und andere Wege zum Körper, Paderborn
EXHIBITION PRODUCTION / ARTISTIC DIRECTION
2024 artistic head of production: ECHOING FUTURES - On Practices of Radical Imagination, Exhibition series at ACUD Galerie Berlin, curated by Linnéa Meiners, Gabriela Matuszewska, Alžběta Čermáková (funded by SOF Berlin)
2023 curatorial assistance: GALLERY WEEKEND FESTIVAL BERLIN at Studio Mondial, Berlin, curated by Sandra Teitge
2022-23 artistic head of production: GOSSIPGOSSIPGOSSIP - The Devil's Radio, a five-part series of performances, exhibitions and artistic activations at FeldFünf, Floating University, Silent Green, ZK/U, Kunstbrücke am Wildenbruch Berlin, curated by Anja Lückenkemper and Sandra Teitge (funded by HKF)
2022 artistic head of production: Lerato Shadi - MAROPENG, Galerie im Turm, Berlin