KATHARINA MICHALSKY

is a Berlin-based artist who explores the interplay between media as a carousel that spins between senses.  She conceptualizes her work as emotional gardening. This takes form as a fusion of drawing, painting and spoken word.
Drawing

01. onion skin series,
various scales, paint ball on onion skin paper, 2021

Painting

2024 

2023 

earlier 


spoken words & visuals

01.  inner yard
in search of overwhelming banality group show, 2022


02. MA /the gap,
urban spaces in transition, research, 2019
contact & about

01. contact

02. emotional gardening,
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emotional gardening


Blossoms of Meaning

My emotions pour the blossoms of the enchanted reality of painting. Flowers emerge not just as plants but as living metaphors, creating their lives with layers of meaning. Ritualized across the globe, flowers are gestures of connection, celebration, love, and mourning. Their symbolic significance lingers, even as they wilt, reminding us of the fleeting of existence.


Cultural Tense
Cut flowers, removed from their ground, have become commercial symbols within the floral industry. Yet, their commodification does not strip them of meaning. Flowers remain connected to rituals, art, and history, balancing their organic essence with their symbolic. Butterflies resting on flowers symbolize freedom being part of a greater organism.

From patterns inspired by flowers to the metaphors, flowers are deeply woven into personal and cultural narratives. They open towards timelessness. Their vibrant pigments, some of humanity’s oldest artistic tools, have been harnessed to translate their essence into enduring creative expressions.


Flowers become


To make a flower is to engage in a profound process—whether by nature, human hand, or imagination. Flowers are relationships: with sunlight, water, pollinators, and people. They teach us that beauty is not static but an evolving act of creation.

In their making, we find life in motion, an art form perpetually unfolding, reminding us of our capacity to grow, create, and connect. At the same time, this becoming is for its own sake, like I see painting. Only after realizing this, a new perspective or understanding can be developed. Not knowing what is evolving is being at peace with becoming.

Using sound, drawing, and live performance, I aim to construct a space where different media interact in an evolving, reciprocal process.






© 2025 – Katharina Michalsky