Maja Hürst : PEGASUS & FOAL Mural, Tvak Ahmedabad

Tika Thek

Mural at Tvak residential art studios and Sunshine School of Arts

Maja Hürst : PEGASUS & FOAL, Tvak Ahmedabad

Switzerland born, self taught artist Maja Hürst was raised in Cairo and Cologne.She lives a nomadic lifestyle. constantly traveling and shifting..moving every few months..leaving behind glorious murals that are in places like Cape Town, Cologne, Atlanta, Bangkok, The Gambia, Rio de Janeiro, Istanbul, Berlin, Alexandria and and Zürich where she spends a lot of time.

Maja has a diploma in Visual communication from the University of Art and Design in Zürich

Her work is Deeply rooted in d.i.y. culture.She experiments with any manual multiplying techniques like wood- or linocut, silkscreen print and stencil. She also creates by using soldering guns, knifes, brushes, pens, ink feathers, rollers, spray paint, scissors, anything crossing her hands. Often her works are covered in a relief of small hand cut silver-tape-leaves and integrated light chains.

Maja at the Tvak Studios in vastrapur, Ahmedabad.

She saw here a different approach to organization and liked what she saw of a large country like ours.” I d like to come and travel the country.. maybe take more trains” she says  

She has painted in Dharavi and Bandra where she was in close proximity to the community & met people from all classes and enjoyed the experience as she dosent define wealth by money. She worked as a a bike messenger for 5 years and she made pizza and sowed clothes and all.. developed photos and edited books and is a DJ. she always did something because she liked doing it but was an artist always somehow. .. if she also made money she was happy.Her universe is clear, graphic shapes and textures. The contrast of precise shapes filled with savagely applied textures and scratches through layers of dust and paint interweave abstract figures of humans with animals and objects to let our day to day life joust with our human inhetitance of tales and symbols. It reminds us of the circles of eternal vanity and leaves a hint of myth.

She has no one single work process but adapts to the context. Walls are approached differently from wok in a studio. she paints for people who will see the wall

as it is something she leaves behind and she moves on. She tries to think of what people will like. Her concepts depend on who lives around where the work will be.

Her studio work is more what she think about and what her day to day life is. More an internal journey,

“The wall painting is interactive n more outgoing. I love the large scale of outdoors and studio work is searching within 

myself the two influence each other and i enjoy both” Hürst's studiowork has been on display at various solo- and group expositions at museums and galleries around the world.