MIWA OGASAWARA (B. 1973) Image

signed with monogram, dated, titled ‘Image/50x60/07/M’, label from the Vera Munro Gallery, Hamburg (on the reverse) oil on canvas 50 x 60 cm Painted in 2007 Provenance: Vera Munro Gallery, Hamburg Private collection, Los Angeles Private collection Miwa Ogasawara was born in Kyoto in 1973 and moved to Germany in 1991. She studied design at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences and later fine art at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts, where she developed a distinctive painterly language. Working within the field of contemporary figurative painting, Ogasawara creates quiet, atmospheric composition, often depicting interiors, landscapes, or fragmentary figures, rendered in restrained tonal palettes. Situated between figuration and abstraction, her work explores perception, memory, and the psychological resonance of everyday spaces, aligning her practice with broader tendencies in contemporary painting that emphasize stillness, ambiguity, and contemplative viewing. Similar work is exhibited in the Centre Pompidou, Paris.