Aimee Birnbaum
Biography
Aimee Birnbaum is a multimedia artist of Polish and Jewish heritage, based in London. Born in New York City, she trained at the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts, USA. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, the Institut Français de Thessalonique and the Byzantine Museum in Veroia, Greece. In 2022, her painting exhibition Little Paris of Interwar Kaunas toured five venues as part of the European Capital of Culture Kaunas 2022 programme.
Aimee works collaboratively with composers, musicians and artists on projects exploring historical and mystical themes. Her collaborations include The Passage of Time, a chamber work by Jonathan Slade, and projects with composer Rūta Vitkauskaite and the Chromatikon Art/Music Synthesis collective.
Artist Statement
Aimee Birnbaum paints dancers and spirits in otherworldly settings that speak to the undergrowth of subconscious desire. In her primeval forests, Arcadian landscapes and magical glades, souls flower, trees sprout breasts and hold hands, and animals seem to speak.
Her dancers could be ancient goddesses, woodland spirits or figments of her imagination. At the root of the work is a physical vigour, sensuality and evocation of movement. As a dancer herself, Aimee understands how the body feels in motion, and her muscular memory informs the anatomy of fleeting movement.
Her paintings explore the space between the physical and the imagined, where the human figure becomes part of an instinctive, dreamlike landscape.