Starting with photographic base elements, such as the figure or the landscape, Haider transforms the scenery into a surreal world through heavy post-production. She uses photographs, that in their essence capture something real, to merge these aspects of reality, slowly creating something unreal and imagined, yet familiar in its story - a dreamscape, drawing from the essence underneath the surface. In her work the unspoken finds itself translated into images.
AVAILABLE ARTWORKS BY MICHAELA HAIDER
FARBTÖNE SERIES
About the FARBTÖNE series: hues of colour, tones of life. Each artwork of the series shows a story, a tone, an element of existence in this world. There are countless shades to it. The images are just a selection of some. An idea being conveyed.
UNTITLED SERIES
UNTITLED II SERIES
UNTITLED III SERIES
ISOLATION SERIES
METAMORPHOSIS SERIES
About the METAMORPHOSIS series: From the smallest of seeds the tree grows, striving for the skies. Branches form, ramify and blossom in the rhythm of time. The human figure transforms. The elements depend on each other. An eternal dance of transformation. One becomes the other, again and again. Each the others source of life. A constant process in motion
UNTITLED IV SERIES
UNTITLED V SERIES
UNTITLED VI SERIES
UNTITLED VII SERIES
MICHAELA HAIDER
REPRESENTED ARTIST
Originally from Austria, Michaela Haider found her expression in photography at an early age. Drawing inspiration for her early works from the fields and forests, streams and rivers of the region she grew up in. After studying chemistry in Graz, Helsinki and Berlin, the scientific perspective provided even deeper insights into the unifying element of her work — the relationship between the human form and nature, and the materialistic aspect of both.
Her images depict staged worlds that pose and explore the question of this relationship from the human perspective.
Haider's works have been exhibited in Austria, Germany, Spain, and Finland.