Minna Etein is a British artist living and working in Berlin. Her practice involves painting, installation, and performance. The work is grounded in feminist and psychoanalytic thought. Domestic materials speak: they are used, recontextualised, transformed. Language enters only to be undone: burnt, dissolved, concealed inside material that can no longer be read, only seen. She studied at Central Saint Martins and Chelsea College of Art and Design, London. Her work has been exhibited in London, Paris, Helsinki, Berlin, and is held in private collections.

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My practice moves between painting, installation, and performance. I work with materials made for other purposes. Taken through processes of layering, concealment, and transformation, house paint, thread, aluminium foil, cyanotype and book-binding fabrics,  wafer paper and chlorophyll enter an altered state.

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The paintings are palimpsests. Surface scraped clean and written over, the previous mark never fully removed. Trees, roots, wounds, mythological and personal memory become source. Each painting begins with an obstruction. I deliberately complicate my own ability. These obstructions ensure that each work is resolved on its own terms. The material resists. Thread honours the lineage of the Moirai, the three fates spinning the thread of life, becoming a structural and compositional basis.

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In performance and video, the body becomes both medium and site. Actions rooted in domestic tasks and crafts unravel into self-made rituals.​

Site-specific installations respond to the architecture and history of a space, treating it as a living body, present, wounded, healing, dreaming. Language enters only to be undone. Burnt into ash, dissolved by chlorophyll, concealed inside material that can no longer be read, only seen. What was written becomes sculptural. The text does not disappear. It becomes something else.