Paul Mika sees the world through abstraction. Every scene, every fleeting moment of light and form, becomes a composition of shapes, colors, and emotions in his mind. His work is not about capturing reality in detail but about distilling its essence—transforming the visual and emotional experience of a place or moment into an abstract expression.
When reinterpreting a photographic scene into a painting, Mika's goal is not replication but translation. The lines, textures, and hues he chooses are guided by the way a scene feels rather than how it appears. For Mika, abstraction is a way of seeing. It is a process of reduction and reinvention—of breaking the world down into its fundamental elements and reassembling it through intuition and perception.
Born in 1997 in Frankfurt a. Main, Germany, Mika studied Psychology (B.Sc.) and Political Communication (M.Sc.) in Amsterdam. Since 2022, he has lived and worked in Berlin.