Mieke De Maeyer is a Belgian visual artist and entrepreneur based in Ghent. In 2006, she founded Studiomie, a place where art, aesthetics, form, and hospitality come together. With a refined sensitivity to detail, beauty, and atmosphere, she creates projects that invite curiosity and spark the imagination. The space also includes Studiomie One Room Hotel, an intimate setting where guests can experience art, atmosphere, and slow living in a personal way.

Mieke works with artisanal, time-intensive techniques such as ceramics and printmaking. Her practice unfolds slowly, shaped by material, memory, and careful observation. Her artistic practice is rooted in personal memories, always connected to nature and preserved in her imaginary “Memory Palace.” Through walks and attentive observation of landscapes, she quietly collects visual impressions that later return in her work as forms, textures, and atmospheres. Through a restrained and subtle visual language, she seeks a balance between precision and blur, between timelessness and transience, between the personal and the collective. In this way, she creates a quiet world in which nature, time, and memory intertwine.

Mieke will be guest at Hotel Schwarzschmied as Artist in Residence in June and will begin her stay with an Artist Talk on June 15, 2026.

During her last stay at Hotel Schwarzschmied over the Christmas season, the snow-covered mountains, the stillness of the landscape, and the house’s clear aesthetic left a lasting impression on her. These impressions form the basis of the work that is now entering the hotel. At its center are three landscape works, etchings on handmade Japanese paper, reflecting on memory, landscape, and the quiet presence of the mountains. Around them, smaller white ceramic mountain forms will appear throughout the house, each holding dried flowers and grasses from the surrounding landscape.

During her stay in June, Mieke will also create a “work in progress” moment. On site, she will model another ceramic mountain form, offering guests insight into her working process. The finished work already belongs to the house, while a new one is coming into being.

The white mountains are quiet, contemplative objects. They point to inner landscapes and invite the projection of one’s own memories. Echoing the surrounding Alpine landscape, they create a subtle dialogue between the inner world of memory and the mountains outside. At Schwarzschmied, a place dedicated to slowing down and mindfulness, they accompany the experience of arriving, perceiving, and remembering.