About the artist
Yakamoza (born Michelle Schulz) is a German contemporary artist currently based in Spain, whose practice centers on abstract painting informed by a lifelong visual engagement with the world. She began her artistic path at a technical college for design before receiving her first stage-design engagement at the Frankfurt Schauspielhaus, followed by additional projects at other theatres and locations. Early theatre work deepened her fascination with the transformative power of light, shadow, shapes, and the way these elements can reconfigure and redefine space.
Over the following years, Yakamoza expanded this exploration into projection-based art, creating video installations and stage projection mapping for music and art festivals across Europe. The videos she worked with were entirely produced by herself, drawn from nature and her immediate surroundings: plants, insects, stones, rock formations, the Pacific ocean, the movement of wind and water, and the subtle atmospheres she encountered during extensive travels through Mexico and beyond. These experiences shaped her sensitivity to fleeting visual moments—shadows sliding over stone, long sun rays piercing through trees, or particles of sand and insects shimmering in shifting light.
Today, Yakamoza works from a position of conscious reduction. Her paintings are developed slowly, allowing layers to accumulate and settle until the work reaches a state of balance — open, but grounded. Rather than immediacy or spectacle, her focus lies on presence, duration, and the in-between.