The Impossible Machine is a shop run by Dutch artist and designer Mirjam Dijkema (1984) who studied Illustration&Graphic Design and Art History.

Currently Mirjam is teaching design and art theory at Minerva School of Arts in Groningen, the Netherlands and working as a self-employed poster designer and screen printer. Her printing career started at the famous underground music club VERA, where she has been employed since 2007. At the Vera club, Mirjam designs and screen prints posters by hand, arranges exhibition and is managing the print shop in general. The Vera Club has been famous worldwide since the early eighties and nineties, when upcoming bands like U2, Nirvana and Sonic Youth were booked by the programmer Peter Weening, who is still working at the Club. Since the late seventies, handmade screen prints have been a important and many-sided face of the club, where currently 12 different professional designers are active. As a poster artist Mirjam has worked outside of the Vera Club as well and made numerous designs for bands like Soundgarden, Dinosaur Jr., Fleet Foxes, Bright Eyes and many many more.

Mirjams work is exhibited all over the world and she gave numerous lectures about the gig poster and screen printing in general. In her collage and printing work she focusses on how printing techniques convey different (visual) messages and investigates the screen printing technique as a whole. Together with her students at Minerva School of Arts, she explores the limits of illustration and focusses on how a message is conveyed, both theoretically and pratically. 

Over the course of the last year, Mirjam has been working in Mexico City and collaborates with Mexican visual artist Andrés Gamiochipi. In the first year of working together, both artists have had six exhibitions in Mexico, the Netherlands and Italy.