Born in Switzerland

Memory Mapping

Middelmann explores the fine line between memory and imagination, using drawing, photos, found maps and objects to explore how our memory constructs and deconstructs in order to tell new stories about ourselves. On 25 meters of gauze, Naomi Middelmann explored the concept of memory and what we do or do not remember. THis as a result of an artist residency with neuroscientists in Lausanne Switzerland and a residency at the Musée Jenisch in Vevey Switzerland. Memories are reconstructed, assembled and disassembled. This artwork was created as part of a six month residency in the LINE neuroscience lab at the University ofLausanne. It was exhibited at the CHUV (Switzerland), the Regionale 23 in Weil Am Rhein (Germany), and the Kunstraum
Hochdorf in Lucerne(Switzerland). Born in Switzerland, Middelmann moved to New York when she was 16. After earning a degree in Creative writing and International Relations from Johns Hopkins University, she worked in publishing. She chose to return to Europe and earned a postgraduate degree in visual arts from theVisual Art School in Basel in 2009. Since graduating from art school, her work and process has been shown in over 60 solo and group shows at museums, galleries and art fairs in Europe, USA and Switzerland. Her work is featured in public and major private collections in Europe and abroad. She is represented by the Post Collapse gallery in Seattle (USA) and Zurich (CH), by the woman art gallery (Bern, CH), by the CDAC (Des Moines, USA). In 2021, Middelmann received a grant from the Swiss government to do an artist residency in a neuroscience lab. As part of the grant, she was invited to do an artist residency at the Jenisch Museum in Switzerland where she created the work exhibited by BID23ART.