Staff Profile

Christian Mieves is a painter and cultural theorist. His artistic and academic work has focused on questioning the nature of visibility and exploring some of the ways in which images become susceptible to erosion, using strategies of visual disruption to critique established theories of representation. His paintings have been exhibited internationally in solo and group shows in the UK, Germany, Portugal, Spain and Mexico.

Recent solo and collaborative research projects have led to the co-organisation of international conferences and symposia, including 'Working Wonder' (2013), 'Revisiting the Beach' (2009) and 'Dirty Practice', an annual low residency. His publications include the book Wonder in Contemporary Artistic Practice (Routledge, 2017), co-edited with Irene Brown, and edited special issues of Journal of Visual Art Practice 17(2-3) in 2018 and 9(3) in 2010. Christian's publications also include artist interviews with Dana Schutz (Turps Banana, 2014) and David Schutter (Journal of Contemporary Painting, 2018). 

More information: www.mieves.info 

Recent Solo and Group exhibitions (Selection 2008 -present)

2022 Glaucus and Scylla, Customs House Gallery, 21 April - 15 May 2022

2019 Conversations in Painting: Crown Street Gallery, Darlington, 22 - 30 October 2019 [Solo].

2019 Paper Gallery, Manchester, 28 Sept - 9 Nov 2019 [with Brendan Fletcher]

2018 Times and Movements of the Image, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal, 14 Nov 2018 - 5 Jan 2019

2018 Landfill, Be Poet,21/04 – 25/05 2018, Frankfurt, Germany. [Solo]

2018 Object Relations, Nuneaton Museum and Gallery, 23 Dec 2017 – 11 Feb 2018. 

[with Euripides Altintzoglou].

2017 Bankley Open, Manchester. 6-18 October 2017

2017 Abstrakter Gegenstand, PENG, Mainz, Germany. 5-14 October 2017. [Solo]

2017 Eagle Works Gallery, Wolverhampton. [Solo]

2015 Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, June 2015

2014 Galerie der Stadt Mainz, Mainz, Germany, 29 Nov 2013 - 4 Jan 2014. [Solo]

2012 St Cuthbert's College, Durham University, 14 Nov-15 Dec 2012. [Solo]

2012 Duckett & Jeffreys Gallery, Malton, 31 Oct-30 Nov 2012. [Solo]

2011 Constantine Gallery, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, 10 Nov-16 Dec 2011. [Solo]

2010 Xunta de Galicia, Lugo, Spain, Sept 2010. [Solo]

2010 Myles Meehan Gallery, Darlington, UK, 4 June-30 July 2010. [Solo]

2009 South Square Gallery, Bradford, UK, 7-29 Nov 2009. [Solo]

2008 Claustro de Sor Juana, Mexico City, Mexico, 3-29 March 2008. [Solo]

2008 ArtSway, Sway, UK, 6 Dec 2008 - 15 Feb 2009.

2008 Phoenix Gallery, Exeter, UK, 18 Sept-5 Nov 2008.

Studio and dissertation modules at undergraduate and postgraduate level (MA and PhD).

• Articles

  • Mieves C. Towards Understanding the Nature of History and its Limitations: An Interview with the American Artist David Schutter. Journal of Contemporary Painting 2018, 4(2), 285–300.
  • Mieves C. 'It doesn't reveal itself': erosion and collapse of the image in contemporary visual practice. Journal of Visual Art Practice 2018, 17(2-3), 206-224.
  • Mieves C. Erosion and illegibility of images: 'beyond the immediacy of the present'. Journal of Visual Art Practice 2018, 17(2-3), 135-143.
  • de Jong N, Mieves C. The Trope of Flattening and the Complexities of Difference: Visual and Acoustic Accounts of Trinidad Carnival. Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal 2016, 13(2), 5.
  • Mieves C. Christian Mieves Interviews Dana Schutz. Turps Banana 2014, 14, 14-19.
  • Mieves C. Unfinished Bodies, Bodies at Work and Frank from Observation: Figure and Ground in the work of Dana Schutz. European Journal of American Culture 2013, 32(1), 79-96.
  • Mieves C. Distant Toys, Dissected Bodies and Reality TV: Luc Tuymans and Painting in the Age of Ritual and New Media. International Journal of Arts and Technology 2013, 6(3), 297- 316.
  • Mieves C. Traces and Erosion: A Case Study of the Beach in Contemporary Art Making. Journal of Visual Art Practice 2010, 9(3), 273-290.

• Book Chapter

  • Mieves C, Ayliffe M. Dirty Practice: A Painting Workshop and the Hidden Curriculum. In: Hartshorne I; Moloney D; Quaife M, ed. Teaching Painting. London: Black Dog, 2017, pp.52-57.

• Edited Book

  • Mieves C, Brown I, ed. Wonder in Contemporary Artistic Practice. London: Routledge, 2017.

• Editorial

  • Mieves C. Erosion and illegibility of images: ‘beyond the immediacy of the present'. Journal of Visual Art Practice 2018, 17(2-3), 104.