Born in Gummersbach, Germany (b. 1967)

Michaela Eichwald

CityHome 2000 Titelgenerator, 2020

Acrylic, shellac-­ based ink, lacquer, and graphite on pleather
© Michaela Eichwald; courtesy Maureen Paley, London. Photo by Ian Reeves.

Michaela Eichwald in Auf das Ganze achten und gegen die Tatsachen existieren, courtesy of Kunsthalle Basel.

“From my perspective, it was a very good polymorphously­ perverse school with many original teachers where I could learn and experience what I wanted to know. In a direct, physical way. When it all got too much for me, I could switch to my other school, the university.”

—Michaela Eichwald