Michaela Kindle is an artist and photographer whose work explores the boundaries between reality, dream and inner perception. Her photography studies and formative years in Los Angeles, as well as a stay in London, laid the foundation for her particular passion for composing – the creative combination of photographic elements into new, independent visual worlds.

Out of this engagement with photography, a distinctive visual language developed over time, one that connects the poetic with the surreal and the familiar with the unexpected. In her digital photo collages, Kindle brings together diverse motifs into multi-layered compositions in which nature, animals, people, spaces and symbolic elements relate to one another in unexpected ways.

Beneath the visible surface of her works unfold themes such as memory and longing, identity and change. Her images often seem to tell of something that cannot be grasped directly and yet feels familiar. They touch on questions of one’s own path, of inner transformation and of what moves us beyond visible reality.

With photographic precision and a fine sense of atmosphere, Michaela Kindle creates images that invite us to pause. She is less concerned with definitive answers than with those moments in which perception shifts and something resonates within the viewer.

Alongside her own artistic work, Michaela Kindle develops the series Fragments of a Forgotten Symphony together with Daniel Ricardo González under the name Kindle & González. In it, González’s photographs of abandoned places marked by the traces of time merge with Kindle’s poetic compositions. At its heart lie transience and renewal, the traces of the past and the possibility of discovering new life in what seemed lost.