PORTRAIT MILES GREENBERG - REIFFERS ART CENTER

Miles Greenberg, young talent from the 2025 mentorship program

For the 2025 edition, Miles Greenberg joins the Reiffers Art Initiatives mentorship program as the Emerging Talent. Alongside his mentor Daniel Buren, a globally celebrated figure of contemporary art, the duo is preparing a joint exhibition to be held at the Reiffers Art Center from October 22 to December 13.

Now based between Paris and New York, Miles Greenberg has quickly established himself as one of the most compelling performance artists of his generation. Within immersive happenings and dizzying scenographies, Greenberg pushes the limits of the human body — walking continuously for 24 hours in his 2020 performance OYSTERKNIFE, or piercing his body with arrows in a Saint Sebastian-like gesture at the Louvre in 2023 and again at the Venice Biennale in 2024. More recently, Greenberg has expanded his practice into sculpture, using 3D scans of his own body to create striking, large-scale works that engage in a powerful dialogue with the spaces they inhabit — spaces the artist often reimagines and choreographs himself.

Biography

Born in 1997 in Montreal, Canada, Miles Greenberg is a performance artist and sculptor. His practice centers on large-scale, sensorially immersive, and site-specific environments focused on the physical body in space.
These installations are activated through durational performances that use the body as sculptural material, aiming to make visible the poetics of the human form—often through the lens of the African diaspora. His performances are captured live before audiences, forming the basis of subsequent video works and sculptures.
Greenberg’s universe is rigorous and ritualistic, relying on slowness and the decomposition of form to heighten audience awareness. The result resembles a ritual space, inviting both performer and viewer to explore, interpret, and honor the emotional resonance that lives within the body—often beyond language.

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