Uma Haime

Uma Haime is an Italian artist based in Prague. Since her teens she has been studying different artistic languages as dance, theater and painting. She moved to  Bologna where while studying Theater's Anthropology she starts also create collages and drawings as a form of diary of her experiences and evolution. With discovering the Asian theater, she started to be fascinated by rituals, religion and oriental mysticism.

Later she moved to Paris to study her master degree, and so had the opportunity to visit often gallery of contemporary art in Paris as in London. This was in the period when the street arts and the digital arts started to be officially recognized.

Then she tried to come back to live in the south of Italy and get reconnected with her roots. In Naples she started to study abstract mime and performance and directed a series of site-specific performances with her artistic group Veranda.

The economical crises broke out this project based on street performance and she had to emigrate again, this time on the Est side of Europe.   Prague at that time had still a vivid smell of communism, and therefore offered perfect time for other side specific performances. In 2015 after a fiscal brake down which obliged her to stay in the bed for three months, she turned to painting to continue her investigation that no longer could be carry on thought her body.

If the condition of traveler and migrant had been for her a training of artistic sensibility, so the theater was for her the beginning of a deep introspection which brought her the focus on spirituality, religion and rituals; which is now the core of her artistic expression.

In the last four year she presents her abstract paintings and installation in Greece, Italy, Czech Republic, Korea and New York.