Myriam El Haïk

Paper Positions Art Fair

(Berlin) Tempelhof Airport

Booth #63

Featured artist:

For our gallery's presence at Paper Positions (Berlin) 2025, Ronewa Art Projects will present works on paper by two Moroccan artists. All works labeled 2025 were created specifically for this event.

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Profile: Myriam El Haïk. Image credit: Iveta Rysava

Myriam El Haïk
‘Rugs, Color Fields Series’ — Description
‘Rugs, Color Field Series’ is a development of my ‘Rugs, Color Lines Series,’ also an extension or a move from drawing to painting. The effect of "applat de couleur" (solid colors) produced by the repetition of my patterns in my drawing are replaced by enlarged bands of color. In this work, I want to explore differently the colors by the interaction between them.

The title reveals a dual set of aesthetic and cultural references: one rooted in my connection to traditional Moroccan rugs, the other shaped by a strong influence of American minimalism—particularly color field painting.

These works try to make those apparently distant cultures closer and connected. They also emphasize that a rug can also be seen as a painting, which evokes an abstract landscape viewed directly from outside or behind a window. Playing with the light and the density of each color and experimenting with the distance their interaction creates both have the power to modify the perspectives, to change the perception of time and consequently the feelings or emotions of the viewer.

My minimalistic pictorial language uses simple principles of repetition and alternation of colors: their quantity and the vibration between them create an image, a landscape in which the viewer immerses, escapes, and vibrates in turn – inviting the viewer to listen to its inner music.
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PAPER POSITIONS (BERLIN) 2025
FEATURED ARTIST:
MYRIAM EL HAÏK
works on paper
Profile: Myriam El Haïk

Image credit: Iveta Rysava

Myriam El Haïk
overview
Myriam El Haïk (1973, Rabat, Morocco) is a Moroccan-French artist, composer and performer. Her artistic language is based on simple signs, patterns, or actions. The links between music and visual art take center stage in her work. She develops systems of visual notations, transposing her repetitive and minimalist musical compositions into drawings, performances, videos, installations, sculptures, and even furniture and games.

Across all her different mediums, El Haïk plays a never-ending game with and within the limits set by the rules she invents - be it the rules of her musical compositions, her systems of notation, her minimalist abstract visual vocabulary, or back to her starting point, the rules of writing. In her peculiar way, she is pushing and pursuing her inventions across the borders of the various mediums she uses. She plays with colors, patterns, lines, structures, and ultimately with the notion of time, which is central in all her work. Over her career, a body of work has unfolded that is as versatile and complex as it is minimalist and coherent.

El Haïk lives and works in Berlin, Paris and Rabat. Her visual art has been exhibited in numerous solo and group shows in galleries and contemporary art centers in Europe and Morocco (Paris, Berlin, Mantova, Bratislava, Marseille, Rabat, Marrakech, Tangier). Her performances were presented in the context of inted festivals (Paris, London, Montreal, New York). Since 2018, El Haïk has been particularly active in Berlin, and in 2022, KW Institute for Contemporary Art invited her to participate in the 12th Berlin Biennale.