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Born 1971 in Lüneburg, Germany.
In 1989 Mirko Reisser sprayed his first works. He already realized his first commissioned pieces in 1990.
1991, right after his graduation from secondary school, he began to work as a freelance artist and called himself DAIM.
The artist started the fine arts program at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Switzerland in 1996. In 1999, he co-founded the studio collaboration getting-up in Hamburg.
Mirko Reisser (DAIM) has been represented by ReinkingProjekte and further galleries.
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2017 – 2020
2014 – 2016
2009 – 2013
2005 – 2008
2003 – 2004
2000 – 2002
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2021
2019
2018
2016
2014
2010 – 2012
2007 – 2009
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2018 – 2020
2016 – 2017
2014 – 2015
2013
2010 – 2012
2007 – 2009
2005 – 2006
2000 – 2004
1991 – 1999
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“DAIM’s program comprises the construction, as well as de-construction of a word (at some point, in between the processes of annealing and erasure, it emerges out of a synaesthetic sphere! And reveals: that it came into being out of nothingness and is always on the verge of disappearing into it again. DAIM-graffitis can be seen as fixed images of a word-formation that is constantly threatening to reassemble, denying access, escaping the demands of tangibility and, thereby, remain free and sovereign.
With every new DAIM-piece, Mirko Reisser takes possession of another piece of the world; and with every new DAIM-piece, the world takes possession of another piece of Mirko Reisser. “Shaping the character of letters and at the same time, discovering one’s own” is his dictum. The character of the letters remains variable, abstruse, in short: ambivalent (and, thus, subversive).
In between construction and de-construction, two- and three-dimensions, complexity of shape and simplification of content, between seclusion and an invitation to communicate, Mirko Reisser’s works reveal the unfathomable rift of the world – at the crossing of which the beholder increasingly struggles.”