About the artist
Yakamoza (Michelle Schulz) is a German contemporary artist based in Spain, working across painting and photography. Her practice explores the transformation of organic structures into abstract visual forms through processes of layering, distortion, mirroring, and reduction.
Drawing, painting, and photography have accompanied her since early childhood, shaped by a lifelong sensitivity to texture, atmosphere, and spatial perception. She later worked in stage design across theatres in Germany, including Schauspiel Frankfurt and Thalia Theater Hamburg, where an early fascination with light, shadow, and spatial transformation began to define her artistic approach.
This exploration later expanded into projection-based installations and visual works presented in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Belgium. Inspired by natural environments, her source material emerged from close observation of plants,
stone surfaces, erosion, insects, water, shifting light, and organic textures encountered throughout extensive travels and daily surroundings.
Today, Yakamoza’s work focuses on painting and photography as interconnected forms of visual transformation. Her photographic works isolate and reconstruct fragments of the natural world into symmetrical, almost sentient compositions, while her paintings translate similar structural languages into tactile, layered surfaces with a strong physical presence.
Balancing control and unpredictability, her work exists between observation and abstraction — creating atmospheric visual bodies that feel both organic and unfamiliar.