Miaz Brothers

Biography
Expositions

Biography

Roberto (1965) and Renato (1968), born in Monza, Milan. When we tell people we’re two brothers who live and work together in harmony, their astonishment reminds us how rare that is. But for us, it’s always been natural — from childhood games and adventures to a shared creative journey. From the start, we chose an unconventional path, avoiding the classic high school-academy-gallery route. Inspired by Renaissance artists, we sought wide-ranging life experiences, technical skills, and philosophical depth to broaden our means of expression. Our first installations took place not in galleries, but in Milan’s trend-setting nightclubs, where we created immersive, multi-sensory environments. These early experiments gave us instant feedback from large, diverse audiences and pushed the limits of traditional art spaces. In 1996, we exhibited “Piercing” at Via Farini Gallery and “Timecode” at Hyperspace, already blending genetics, perception, sound, and light. But as club culture became commercialized, we shifted focus — just as personal computers opened new creative frontiers. Though initially skeptical, we embraced digital tools, discovering new ways to design and present work. This led to collaborations with brands like Adidas, Swatch, Piaggio, and Nike between 1996 and 2000, producing creative, socially aware projects for a global audience. In 2000, we moved to New York to explore photography — a fresh, unexplored medium for us. We developed an experimental technique just before 9/11 changed everything. With plans disrupted, we relocated to Paris, where we lived for five years and worked with brands such as Elite, Diesel, Puma, and Kenzo. Eventually, we returned to painting — our original passion — seeing it as the most challenged and in-need-of-renewal discipline on the international scene. We traveled through South America and Southeast Asia, gathering experiences and ideas before settling for a winter of full-time experimentation in Amsterdam in 2008. Pleased with the results, we established a base in Valencia, Spain, to work intensively. Later, we moved to London, where Steve Lazarides began representing us in 2014. Exhibiting alongside top British artists such as JR, Whils, Antony Micallef, and Conor Harrington, our first two solo shows sold in full to the Damien Hirst collection. After Lazinc Gallery closed, we continued with a residency at Maddox Gallery in Mayfair. In 2022, MUCA (Museum of Urban Art, Munich) acquired two of our large canvases for their permanent collection.

Expositions

Miaz Brothers

L´immagine che aspetta

26 Jun - 12 Sep 2025

At its core, it’s always the same game. To subtract in order to open. To blur the edges and make room for the breath of another. Each time we exhibit again, we ask ourselves: what will they truly see? We never set out to show a face. What moves us is the motion that begins when one tries to recognize it. The distance between what you know and what you long to see. For us, painting has never been about confirming reality, but dissolving it — a way to create fertile voids, shadow zones where awareness stirs. The viewer becomes a co-author, compelled to imagine, to recall, to misread. And to us, that is the most human gesture there is. In the age of total surveillance, facial recognition, and identity as a scannable code, we work in reverse: we offer our subjects a face you’ll never be able to decode. An enigma. A precious anonymity. A presence that slips away like a dream, yet lingers within. Here, we’ve opened the form even further, letting something breathe on its own: a trace, an echo, a figure that only exists if you come close enough to lose it again. Each piece is a quiet exercise for the one who looks: don’t try to focus — let the image emerge from within. In the end, we are still just the two of us. Two brothers who chose the mist over the spotlight. Not to tell you what to see, but to offer a space where you might better see yourself.