The artist Maja Hürst became world-famous under the name "TIKA". Today, the pseudonym stands for her own visual universe into which she transports all visitors to her exhibitions.
Already at the age of ten, Maja Hürst pasted self-painted posters in the streets to turn to graffiti at the end of the 90s. After several years of searching for a style, she has been successfully expanding her visual universe TIKA since 2003, which uses geometric forms to explore the essence of the abstraction of the figurative. Experimenting and consistent, she adapts her distinctive visual language to countless techniques and materials. In terms of content, her themes are as multifaceted as the artist's interests. Hürst catalyzes the everyday-cultural with global world events and the historical-mythological. Her works reveal layers of contextual, symbolic, and historical references and complex formal entanglements of grids and surfaces.
Maja Hürst (*1978) grew up in Cairo and Cologne and now lives in Zurich and Berlin, where she built her own studio, a 100m2 wooden construction, last year. Over the past fifteen years, Hürst has travelled the globe intensively to paint countless large-format murals, set up exhibitions and for several extended studio scholarships. Her works have been shown at the Bundeskunsthallen Bonn and the Museumsquartier in Vienna and are represented in various collections. At Siam Square, Hürst painted the four pillars of the Bangkok Art and Culture Center. Her largest mural to date measures 110 x 20 m and has been at the Music Hall in Atlanta GA since 2012.