Maja Hürst

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Maja Hürst painting in Cologne (2013)

Maja Hürst (* 1978 in Zurich ) is a Swiss artist. Her pseudonym is Tika .

Life

Wall painting by Maja Hürst in Cologne-Ehrenfeld (Photo: 2013)

Maja Hürst grew up in Zurich, partly in Cairo and Cologne . She studied visual communication at the Zurich University of the Arts and received her diploma in 2004. She works as a freelance artist and worked as a graphic designer until 2009.

In 1998 she started with street art projects in public spaces. From 2003 she developed her own design language and has been signing with Tika ever since . She creates large figurative murals on house facades, walls and interior walls. Her pictures often depict geometrically abstracted animals or people with their typical flattened faces and broad noses. Her style is influenced by South American folk art as well as Indian myths. She often uses photos of totemic masks as reference material and draws on paper with a pen before spraying sketches on the wall. Her largest mural measures 20 by 110 meters and is on the facade of a concert building in Atlanta . The title "Mr. Wendal »is a reference to a song by the Atlanta hip-hop band Arrested Development .

She lives and works in Zurich, Rio de Janeiro and Berlin.

Exhibitions

Source: Artfacts

Participations (selection)
  • 2015: BundeskunstHALL OF FAME. Graffiti & Street Art Festival , Bundeskunsthalle , Bonn
  • 2014: Wild growth in the streets and on the bodies , Kunsthaus Mürzzuschlag , Austria
  • 2012: Get Freaky Above , Second Gallery, Hong Kong
  • 2011: 11th Annual Invitational Group Exhibition , Anno Domini, San Jose , USA
Solo exhibitions (selection)
  • 2018: Dichotika , Gallery Soon, Bern
  • 2016: abstraction , gallery in Gluri Suter Huus, Wettingen
  • 2014: Sawitaka by Maja Hurst , Toot Yung Art Center, Bangkok (organized by the Swiss Embassy)
  • 2011: Tika , Neonchocolate Gallery, Berlin

Web links

Commons : TIKA (artist)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uta Kenter: u40 - young Swiss art - Maja Hürst: Unmistakable visual language in a huge format , SRF, August 20, 2017
  2. ↑ Tika / Maja Hürst, in: Artists of the BUNDESKUNSTHALL OF FAME
  3. ↑ Melanie Keim: On the walls of this world . In: NZZ.ch. August 26, 2016 , accessed April 8, 2020.
  4. ↑ Maja Hürst . artfacts.net. Retrieved May 9, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Hürst, Maja
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tika (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss graffiti and street artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich