Mia Florentine Weiss

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Portrait of Mia Florentine Weiss

Mia Florentine Weiss (born 1980 in Würzburg)[1] is a German conceptual and performance artist. Her work encompasses various artistic disciplines such as performance, text, blood, installation, sculpture, objets trouvés, photography and film.[2][3][4][5]

Her work has been shown in Museums and Art fairs internationally.[6] Her sculptural ambigram Love Hate [de] has travelled Europe as a symbol of peace and a change of perspective.[7]

"Love Hate" ambigram sculpture in Munich, Germany, 2020.
Mia Florentine Weiss's installation "Now / Won" in front of the Reichstag building, Berlin, Germany, 2017.

Weiss created a sculpture which can be either read as Love or Hate depending on which side it is viewed from. Since 2018, she has run a pro-European campaign #LOVEUROPE with the Love Hate [de] sculpture in different countries in and outside Europe: Germany, Austria, Belgium, France, Russia, Czech Republic.[8][9]

In June 2018, her work was included in Die BUNTE Art in the Museum of Urban and Contemporary Art in Munich, Germany.[10]

In 2018 she was part of the URBAN NATION Artist in Residence Programme in the Urban Nation Museum for Urban Contemporary Art in Berlin (Germany).[11]

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