Artist Miriam Cahn evokes powerful emotions with simple brushstrokes and a vigorous drawing style. Her paintings and drawings depict human atrocities with brutal reality.

Miriam Cahn’s visceral imagery evokes powerful emotions through simple brushstrokes and a vigorous drawing style. Using different formats, bursts of color and enigmatic human forms she portrays universal emotions such as anger, fear, loss, vulnerability and power. Cahn paints indistinct, semi-abstract figures – often fragmented and ghostly – in otherworldly landscapes, where she confronts the complexities of human existence. Exploring themes from vulnerability to power, from perpetrators to victims. Her skill in creating maximum impact with minimum means underscores her unique place in the art world.

War and violence, conflict and sorrow

Cahn’s work shatters taboos and, in a world in turmoil and violence, serves as a stark warning. Cahn depicts human atrocities with brutal reality. War, sexual violence and racism. Her in-your-face paintings and drawings don’t sugarcoat the truth. Cahn’s work deliberately provokes and unflinchingly seeks out confrontation.

Feminist voice

What does it mean to be a woman? Who controls my body? Shaped by feminist theory, the artist unapologetically depicts all the facets of womanhood. She depicts the female body nude and with a raw intimacy, rejecting unrealistic ideals of female beauty. With this she reclaims the female body from the male-dominated system that consistently objectifies, criticizes and seeks to control women’s bodies.