Mirijam Heller

DUO – Mirijam Heiler

The solo exhibition DUO of Mirijam Heiler´s works is understood as an extensive overview of the past three years of creating. It is the 13th edition of the Carte Blanche series and succeeds in connecting the different areas of the Hotel with each other by showcasing various artworks but all with similar appeal.

Heiler´s works are based on the repetition of the simple geometrical forms that often turn into grids. Grids can be repeated infinitely and embody the principle of organization par excellence. It is simplicity and order that prevail.

Since the beginning of her practice Heiler was interested in the cultural and historical value of structures and boundaries and how they shape peoples perception of the world.

Heiler in her works likes to show reduction and takes away rather than adding. She offers a new version of how to touch and feel non verbal poems and reflects throughout her works how artists like Irma Blank have shaped and influenced her ways of artistic expression.

For the solo exhibition in the premises of the Aurora Hotel in Merano Heiler has created new works with ink on paper like Casa I to Casa V, all created in 2025. The notion of home, the house is predominant. The paintings are mostly monochrome, characterized by non-colors and pastel tones such as grey, blue or rose.

Her work explores the layered meanings of house and home not just as physical spaces, but as vessels of memory, identity, and transformation. Using fine lines of pencil on paper she creates semi-abstract compositions that reimagine domestic architecture as both sanctuary and site of personal evolution.

At the heart of Heiler´s practice is a commitment to expressing female empowerment. The house, often seen as a traditionally feminine or constrained space, becomes a metaphor for strength, self-definition, and reclamation. Through subtle textures, intricate line work, and pared-back forms, she aims to challenge and soften rigid structure, visually and conceptually, while honoring the resilience embedded within them.

Drawing from both personal experience and collective narratives, her pieces invite the viewer to reconsider what it means to inhabit a space, a role, or a body. Each work is a quiet act of resistance and reflection a blueprint for empowerment drawn with care, precision, and intention

Mirijam Heiler is known for her meditative and minimalist approach to painting. Her work often explores themes of structure, rhythm, and calm through the disciplined use of grids like the Series Clouds ,2023.

Heiler’s paintings are characterized by simplicity, deliberate paring down of form and a palette that invites quiet contemplation. Utilizing soft, muted tones and geometric frameworks, she builds visual compositions that feel both orderly and emotive. There is always a grounding element in her work, a space where subtle variations in hue and texture create depth and movement despite the minimal visual language.

Replication plays a central role in Heiler’s practice not only as a compositional device but also as a process-oriented meditation. Through repeating shapes and marks, she explores ideas of time, balance, and imperfection. Each work holds the tension between uniformity and individuality, the mechanical and the handmade.

Mirijam Heiler’s paintings speak to a contemporary sensibility rooted in restraint and introspection. In an overstimulated world, her work offers a quiet counterpoint, an invitation to pause and consider the beauty in stillness, pattern, and soft persistence.

Eva von Ingram Harpf

This space is dedicated to showcasing contemporary artistic perspectives, offering both local and international artists the opportunity to exhibit their work through a hybrid format: an online virtual gallery alongside a physical exhibition space located within Aurora.