Michael Bajer

Mike Bajer is a 41-year-old artist based in Munich, Germany.

His work investigates why the way we perceive a person never fully matches who they are.

Working in the language of Disrupted Realism, Bajer explores the space between outer appearance and inner experience. His paintings do not aim to create perfect likenesses. Instead, they focus on the moments where a face becomes memory, where presence begins to fragment, and where identity appears unstable.

Distortions, overlays and blurred passages are not decorative effects. They are part of a visual language that reflects how people are actually perceived: through time, emotion, memory and projection.

Bajer works primarily with oil on canvas. His paintings emerge through layers of paint that are built, interrupted, removed and reworked. This process mirrors the central theme of his work: identity is never static. It is shaped by everything that has touched it.

The figures in his paintings often appear between clarity and dissolution. They remain recognizable, but never fully resolved.

At its core, Bajer’s work is concerned with the tension between what can be seen and what remains hidden. His paintings do not explain a person. They suggest that every human being contains more than can be understood at first glance.

Selected Exhibitions

2013   

Solo exhibition at Galerie Galliani in Neubiberg

2016   

Exhibition "Buchthal Bajer Kruse" in the chancellery Stöber in Berlin

2019

Exhibition at the Viktualienmarkt in Munich for Artlokal

Solo exhibition at the culture centre in Trudering

2023

Stroke Art Fair in Munich