YAMILA MIGLIORANZA – MIT HAUT UND HAAR
Circle Culture Gallery, Opening September 11, 2025 from 18:00 to 21:00
We warmly invite you to experience Yamila Miglioranza’s first solo exhibition outside of Spain, at Circle Culture Berlin during Berlin Art Week 2025.
The exhibition title is taken from the German expression mit Haut und Haar which means giving oneself completely. This idea captures the essence of Yamila’s approach. She presents painting as a fully embodied act that is both meditative and sacrificial.
Working with acrylic paint, water, her hands and often her entire body, Yamila enters a deep state of presence where movement, memory and material merge. Her process is intuitive and physical. She begins with brush and water but soon transitions into direct contact with the canvas. Energy and emotion flow freely through her body, her hand and the bristles of the brush.
Her choice of materials, acrylics layered, watered down, blended and shaped with water, allows her to create richly textured surfaces that evoke organic human structures such as skin, fibers, hair or even wood. The earthy, tactile palette she employs, ranging from warm ochres and deep reds to ghostly whites and muted blues, recalls natural pigments and bodily substances, rooting her work in a material dialogue with nature and the body.
At the core of her work lies a poetic analogy between human skin and the surface of the earth. Both are marked by time, both hold memory and both need water to survive.
Yamila paints in a trance-like state guided more by her instinct than by a plan. She often compares this process to a psychoanalytic session that is unpredictable, vulnerable and ultimately revealing. The canvas becomes a space where emotion is externalized in raw and honest form.
Born in Buenos Aires in 1997 and now based in Barcelona, Yamila began her creative journey with photography and film. She studied art direction and developed a strong sensitivity to space, atmosphere and visual rhythm. During a period of migratory grief painting became her personal language. What started as a spontaneous release turned into a central form of expression. Today painting is Yamila’s way of being fully present. In a world full of distraction her studio practice offers a space of deep focus. Each canvas is a trace of that moment. Flesh, movement, water and color come together as one.
For the first time beyond Spain, Yamila brings her powerful, intimate works to Berlin and will be presented at Circle Culture Gallery Berlin during the Berlin Art Week.
