To create spaces and deconstruct them is a method that Miriam Steinhauser applies in her artistic practice. With these spatial investigations and pictorial spaces she aims to expose gaps or to fill void spaces, thus pointing on a visual level at the ideas behind objects and spaces. With her work she broaches the issue of what is behind the appearance of things.

Her urban and rural explorations take the form of visual research, producing photographs of architecture, of random interventions in public space, or of places and non-places. These are the raw materials for her work in the studio.
In libraries and in the internet she rummages through the cultural memory, fully aware that the impression left by middle European culture is only one of many possible perceptions.

Playing with volume and vacuum, she juxtaposes cultural, urbanistic and historical layers of meaning of spatial perception. She ascribes equal importance to the imaginary and the real space, adding or subtracting it from the picture.

Space can be understood in this sense as the metaphor for the ideas, values and world perceptions surrounding us. This is the backdrop for Miriam Steinhauser’s artistic research, originating from her philosophical interest.