Miron Schmückle

Miron Schmückle (born 1966 in Sibiu/Hermannstadt) is a German-Romanian artist, stage designer and cultural researcher. He lives and works as a freelance artist in Berlin (Germany) since 2008.

In his drawings, Schmückle develops a hybrid, botanical world of forms that moves between hyperrealism and escapism of reality through his interest in art history as well as his preoccupation with non-European flora and fauna. This still finds application above all in his scientific-botanical plant still lifes, whose complex structures Schmückle does not copy from natural models, but composes independently.

Life and artistic development Schmückle grew up in Romania during the Ceaușescu dictatorship. Here he was impressed by the paintings of the polymath Joris Hoefnagel with his allegorical cabinet miniatures from 1597.

In 1988 he left Romania and emigrated to the Federal Republic of Germany. Between 1991 and 1996 he studied Experimental Painting at the Muthesius Academy of Art in Kiel (Germany), among others with Renate Anger. In 1994 he joined the performance artist Marina Abramović at the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg. Since, in Schmückle's view, conceptual art was very dominant at universities in the mid-1990s and drawing was not taught at university, he taught himself to do this independently. His self-study drawings eventually serve as his final project at Muthesius.

Between 1995 and 1996, Schmückle held a teaching position at the Saint Petersburg Theatre Academy in the field of installation art. In terms of content, his doctoral thesis deals with the cabinet miniatures of Joris Hoefnagel.

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

1997 – Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg (Germany): Hortus conclusus 2004 – Gallery Anita Beckers, Frankfurt am Main (Germany): Capriccio 2010 – Gallery Dörrie*Priess, Hamburg (Germany): illectus eram 2023 – Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main (Germany): Miron Schmückle. Flesh for Fantasy

Group exhibitions

1998 – 4th International Photo Triennial, Esslingen (Germany) 2021 – Kunsthalle München, Munich (Germany): Flowers Forever. Flowers in Art and Culture

Works in public and private art collections (selection) Schmückle's works are represented in renowned collections worldwide, including:

Kunsthalle Kiel, Kiel (Germany) Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen (Germany)