Kaiserwache is pleased to present “gestohlen bleiben,” the solo exhibition by Mirjam Walter. The exhibition brings together new works on paper as well as several site-specific interventions utilizing glass, and continues Walter’s engagement with the tensions between body image, perception, and gestural painting. The starting point is consistently a struggle with figuration: an attempt to express something through it that simultaneously reveals itself as a failure. Out of this productive misunderstanding between artist and image emerge works that favor detours, forging their path brushstroke by brushstroke.
About the artist:
Mirjam Walter (*1993) is an artist living and working in Freiburg. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg and completed a Master’s degree in Painting at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg. Her work has been shown, among others, at Luis Leu, Karlsruhe (2025); Galerie für Gegenwartskunst, E-Werk Freiburg (2024); Forum Kunst Rottweil (2022); Kunstbunker Nürnberg (2021); and Kunsthalle Basel (2018). Walter has been involved in the development of various performances and collaborative projects.
In 2024, she developed the performance “I, A HYPHEN” together with Julia Hainz (E-Werk Freiburg), and, together with Dominik Styk, the exhibition and performance “Ich lache bestens” (Golden Pudel Club, Hamburg). In 2021, her first artist book, “I AM NO BODY LIKE A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME,” was published by Hamman Von Mier Verlag, Munich.