about kyra kyra –

kyra kyra (she/her, intermedial artist and art therapist) works with drawing, painting, text, music, performance, and installation. Her practice combines dazzling directness with subjective intensity. In her table scenes, everyday objects transform into symbols of interpersonal dynamics and psychological processes. In 2024, she was featured for the first time in the group exhibition insight outside at MOM Art Space. kyra kyra lives and works in Hamburg/Hannover.

Between dazzling surface and inner experience

Pop was flat, bright, cool – a mirror of surface culture. Expressionism, by contrast, long stood as its opposite: subjective, emotionally charged, eruptive in gesture, and existential in its use of color.

These two poles form a field of tension in which kyra kyra’s visual world unfolds. Her artistic process takes up the stylistics of bright colors, decorative forms, and seemingly naive directness – but at the same time deepens them. Behind the contemporary façade of the aesthetic language of social media lies a second level: the expressive, profoundly subjective eruption of inner processes.

This tension is particularly evident in her intermedial table scenes, opening up multi-perspective access to the subject. What first appears to be a consumer-oriented still life reveals itself as a psychological topography. Objects, seemingly arranged on the table in line with trends, transform into symbols of interpersonal conflicts, hidden themes, or collective narratives. The table is not a neutral ground, but rather a projection surface for negotiations: Who takes a seat, what is served, what remains unspoken?

In this visual language, seemingly incompatible elements come together: the loud and the intimate, the playful and the vulnerable. It invites us to reconsider surfaces – not as smooth finish lines, but as membranes through which the inner presses outward.

Perhaps its very relevance lies here: in an age of endless image streams and surface aesthetics, it urges us to look beyond the glare, reminding us that each artwork carries a truth that can hurt – or heal.