CHIANG MAI ELEFANT

spray, stencil, alutape and scratch on aluminium board
90x210cm
Zürich 11/2012

painted in my most favourite place to eat in Zürich, the Chiang Mai Thai Shop
Pum and Tek who fed me throughout all these years with their delicious curries

AUTUMN — SUMMER DIES EACH YEAR FOR WINTER

HERBST — DER SOMMER STIRBT JEDES JAHR FÜR DEN WINTER 

Zürich 10/2012

BINZ BLIIBT BINZ

BINZ BLEIBT BINZ / BINZ STAYS BINZ
Zürich 09/2012

STAIBOCK & HIRTIN

«STAIBOCK & HIRTIN»
Chur 09/2012

for more detail pics and backgroundinfo

BIG thankyou to Michael Risch for making it happen!
Shoutouts to ma mate Mate Cat, Markus TheMonolist Stäubli, Christian Felder, Boris Périsset, Sandra Boosher Chevalley & Dr. Acid! yo! for the fun the pizza and the dancing in the rain!! 

STIKA 09/2012

3 colour silkscreen on transparent or golden stickerfoil, A5

A DAY AT THE RIVER

10+5+10m x 1.5-6.5m
Kunstbaustelle Morant
Night of Museums St. Gallen, Switzerland

water is my favourite element and once again a summer full of diving, cannon balls and swimming in the river turns to an end. ... and I still haven't had enough :) so I painted this woman half in the water half reflecting.... with things in reality sometimes beeing much smaller than they seem in the mind.

MERCI Ajana, Thomas & all wo debii xie sind

EICHELHÄHER EGGHEADBIRD HAT

BINZ BLIIBT BINZ!
BINZ STAYS BINZ!

with RIM Rimon Guimarães
ZÜRICH 08/2012

MRS.WENDAL

110x20m
Centre Stage, Midtown, Atlanta G.A. Usa
Living Walls Conference

The building is host to the music-hall Center Stage since over 60 years. Acts such as the Rolling Stones, Jay Z and Elton John have made music in there. While researching I saw that in September 2012 the Atlanta based Hiphop-Band Arrested Development will give one of their 20 years anniversary concerts at this venue. The first CD I bought from my own pocket-money was their album «3 years 5 month and 2 days in the life of...» to which I've listened to for many years. The song Mr. Wendal was my favorite one. It talks of housless people and their struggle of acceptance in society. As I saw many homeless while driving through the city and as they maybe never be able to listen to a concert at Center Stage I wanted to bring a bit of the music to the outside.... 

When I first saw the building I straight away saw the kneeling/bowing person. So it became MRS. WENDAl embracing Center Stage as if it was a pocket radio, listening to the music going on inside. Naked and homeless but content. She ain't got much but music.

THANKYOU Thomas, Kief, Devin, Kim, Doodoobut, Trevor, Lucy, Susan, Fletcher, the media Team, all the Living Walls Team and all the helpers, Center Stage staff and a big shoutout to all the supertalented LW 08/12 artists!

the pictures below are:
my online research of homeless women
my online research of Arrested Development
some pictures of Martha Cooper 
detail- & prozesspictures we made or found online

MINOTAURUS

with SHERON
Vienna 07/2012
 

ANIMALISTIKA / ARCHE TIKA

acrylic, alutape, scratch & woodcut on MDF
each 165,6 cm  x 118,8 cm
Vienna, Austria 07/2012

during the month of july 2012 I have been invited as artist in residence at the Museums Quartier in Vienna.
One of the projects was to paint these two woodpannels which will be on display at the streetartpassage at the MQ till the end of october.

MÃO COM FLOR

woodcut and burn, coloured with nail polish
Rio de Janeiro 02/2012 till Berlin 03/2012

PHOENIX & FUGACITY / CARTHUSIAN & SEDUCTION

acrylic, spraypaint, scratch on canvas, each 150x180cm, framed
Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 03/2012

DEU ZEBRA / GAVE ZEBRA

is a brasilian expression when something went wrong 
Conde de Iraja / Botafogo / Rio de Janeiro 02/ 2012


big thankyou to Carol, Clarissa, Gabi, Lolo, Felipe, Thomas & the lady in the zebradress

GRAFFITEIRAS SOLTANDO OS BIXOS

WRITERS LETTING THE BEASTS LOOSE

8x8m
Cedim, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

My friend Anarkia invited me to paint this mural and have an artist-talk for her students which is the all-girls-graffiti-class Rede Nami. So I made this graffiti-writer riding a beast, half fish half horse.

VALEU Anarkia, Rede Nami, Thomas...

KREISLAUF DES WASSERS

CIRCUIT OF WATER

The WASH festival has the aim to help make access to clean water easier for people who nowadays have to walk for hours to the next pond. 
Artists from all over the world got selected to contribiute to this idear. I was happy to meet old friends again and make new ones.
Zezao / KLUB7 / Dhear / NAF / Billy / Alaniz / Mittenimwald / Shamsia / Sago / Bitte alles ändern 
Thank you viva con agua WASH festival for making this happen and bring all of us together!

each one of us had a wall constructed of pieces of woods in diffrent sizes, colours and textures
my wall had a greenish round shaped part on the left, so it was clear it's gonna be a mami-water tale
the rest of the painting built itself up based on the shapes, textures and colours of the woods, of the imputs we became at the workshop about water-consumption that the Welt-Hunger-Hilfe gave us and of thoughts about circuits in life. Circuits of souls. Circuits of water. 

Hamburg 11/2011

WHAT STAYS IS THE LIGHT

viva con agua WASH festival
Hamburg 11/2011

DIA DOS MORTOS

AETERNA VANITAS /
ETERNAL VANITY /
EWIGE VERGÄNGLICHKEIT /

dedicated to my grandmothers and our cat Kimmy

acrylic on burned and cut wood, lightchain, plasticflowers
60x66cm, framed 
Rio de Janeiro 11/2011

to be seen at Homegrown Ipanema Rio de Janeiro 
till Dezember 2011

FACEBOOK SWITZERLAND STIKA

white / lightblue / black uv silkscreen on transparent stickerfoil A5 
8€ plus shipping
PURCHASE

GUARD OF THE KEY OF LIFE

floating hills, a red dragon as the guard of the key of life
Ehrendingen 09/2010

PARADISEBIRDS IN THE TIGHT GRIP OF THE LION

my new favourite place in Zee to be!
Zürich 09/2011

MAKE LOVE — NOT LOFTS

my new favourite place in Zee to be
Zürich 09/2011

PAVIAN / HUSKY / CHAMÄLEON II / WELLENSITTICH / LÖWE / BÄR I / RENTIER / BÄR II / CHAMÄLEON I

STIKA ANIMALS PORTRAITS

original Tuschzeichnung
300gr Waterford Papier
ca.11x10cm

TINTENKILLER ZINE

silkscreen zine with swiss artists and illustrators

VELOVE EDITION

acrylic and papercut over monotype-, woodcut-print
250gr Fabriano archival paper
60x81cm
edition of 7
signed and numbered
made in Zürich, Berlin and Vienna

part of the Art Collection Kanton Zürich

RIDIN' LIKE THE ANIMAL WITHIN YOU!

spray and acrylic on wood
18x3m
for Bycicle Film Festival
Vienna 09/2011

STEFFI (&) THE SWAN

spray, acrylic and scratch on shutters
Naschmarkt Vienna 09/2011

WEDER FISCH NOCH VOGEL

painted this at the Bregenz Freak Wave festival inbetween slackliners, wakeboarders, assbombs into the Bodensee, Dj's bass, skatboarders, cloth- and jewellery-stands, the best woodoven something like pizzas, Kawa's crepes and coffee with supertalks, Käsleberkas and hangover for breakfast every morning not to forget Steffie and the Inoperable Boys ♥

spray, acrylic and scratch on 150x300cm Pressspan wood
Bregenz 09/2011

BERLIN BEAR

MAKE LOVE — NOT LOFTS
Berlin-bear in gentrification-chaines

Fuckparade Berlin 08/2011

STILL LOVING ACTIVISM

Spree-Nixe fighting for Freiräume

Fuckparade Berlin 08/2011

AETERNA VANITAS

Outside of Berlin, at the lake Grabowsee, stands an abandoned tuberculosis sanatorium, where a group of ambitioned people is working on realizing a project called kidsglobe.org. A project rooted in the believe that our future lies in the education of our kids. It aims to create a boarding school where kids not only get trained in common knowlege but  also in arts, handcrafts, agriculture and how to respect eachother and the nature. 

When I first went to paint at Grabowsee I didn't know so much about the project.... it was the day after Amy Winehouses death and my thoughts were circling around dying young. So in the train I had this ruff idea of an animal and a mermaid dancing handing over symbols of vanity to each other.... to paint the moment of full youth, joy and party beeing ripped into eternity.

20x8m, Grabowsee, Oranienburg, artbase 2011

IKARUS'S SISTER

St. Pölten 08/2011

RABIESTIKA FOX / RABIESTIKA DEER / RABIESTIKA BABOON

A serie of paintings on and behind glass for my soloshow «RABIESTIKA» in July 2011 in Berlin.

I'm sure you know this feeling when something happens in your life, that seems so wrong and that hurts so much as it must hurt to have a knife stuck straight in your heart. It makes you rage and scream and drives tears of anger in your eyes.... similar to how rabies infected beasts go mad. With white foam infront of the mouth, totally raging out of control.

I made some tests with glass over the last years, the results did not satisfie nor were they worth publishing and when I stumbled over a religous Austrian Hinterglassmalerei painting in a museum plus some dusty frames in our attic I chose to give it a try. The fox, the deer and the baboon made it into the show. Savely trapped behind glass. Like animals in a zoo.

acrylic on and behind glass, framed, 21.7x26.8cm
Berlin 07/2011 sold

MANEGG

acrylic and spray on wall
Zürich 06/2011

THE GAMBIA DIARY DRAWINGS

14 days with nice artists in The Gambia at the Wide Open Walls project

JARTO YE GALLOYA / LION OF GALLOYA

this amazing project was so deep into my heart.... hard to find words for it

Gambia 06/2011

A LION FOR A FRIEND

acrylic, spray and scratch on canvas, 100x50cm 
Zürich 05/2011
sold

YOU WILL NOT BE HARMED BY CROCODILES IF YOU RIDE THE NILE IN A PAPYRUSBOAT

This wall I have dedicated to the saga that Isis went to search for Osiris remains on a papyrusboat and since then, people riding the Nile in a papyrus boat will not be harmed by crocodiles.

I got invited to Egypt for ten days by pro Helvetia and Goethe Institut in the beginning of may 2011. Also invited were Merzedes Gonzales de Garay from Spain, Mickry3 from Switzerland and Amr Ali from Egypt. 

Alexandria 05/2011

OKULTIKA EGYPT

altarlike Installation inspired by the wallpaper and telefon in our apartment, Alexandrian everyday streetlife where time seems to be counting still a bit yesterday, discussions about visas, globalisation, emanzipation...
Alexandria, Egypt 05/2011

HOJA BLANCA / WEISSES BLATT

In december 2010 I got white sheets of paper in my mail in Berlin... so did 26 other artists from Switzerland or Guatemala. I took mine to Cape Town where I painted them in really ugly colours :) .... to then overspray them white again... arriving in Zürich I added some drawings with black ink and scratching. Touesday the 15th of march 2011 at 18h the results of all 26 artists will be shown at the groupshow HOJA BLANCA / WEISSES BLATT at Schmuck Inc / Weinplatz 7 / Zürich before they travel to be exhibited in Guatemala City! more infos at weissesblatt.com

KUNSTHAUSNACHT LIVEPAINTING

livepainting at Kunsthaus
Museumsnacht Zürich 12/03/2011

TIKATHEK SOLOSHOW AT SKALITZERS GALLERY BERLIN 2011

TIKATHEK
soloshow
Skalitzers Gallery Berlin
25/03/2011 — 24/04/2011

WOODSTOCK PEACOCK

each feather a name of the community!
acrylic and spray on wall, 5x5m
Cape Town, South Africa 03/2011

KAYELITSHA'S LIONHEAD

At the entrance of the capetonian township Kayelitsha.
It's Erics Fruits & Vegetable business.
In the forehead of the lion is his shopwindow.
I went with Faith47, Dathiny and Dal! BIGUP!!

FACEBOOK SOUTH AFRICA STIKAS

drawn in Cape Town, printed in Zürich
mintgreen and fluorescent orange uv silkscreenprint on transparent vynil stickerfoil, limitet edition of 500 sheets, 21x15cm

available for 5€ plus shipping
contact 

KAPTIKA PEACOCK

acrylic, spray paint and scratch on canvas, 76x91cm
Cape Town 03/2011
 

KAPTIKA ELEFANT

acrylic, spray paint and scratch on canvas, 76x91cm
Cape Town 03/2011

KAPTIKA ZEBRA

acrylic, spray paint and scratch on canvas, 91x76cm
Cape Town, South Africa 03/2011

KAPTIKA RINOZEROS

acrylic, spray paint and scratch on canvas, 91x76cm
Cape Town, South Africa 03/2011

KAPTIKA COBRA

acrylic, spray paint and scratch on canvas, 120x40cm
Cape Town, South Africa 03/2011

KAPTIKA SOLOSHOW AT A WORD OF ART CAPE TOWN 2011

pictures by Jonx Pillemer or TIKA



KAPTIKA
a solo show by international artist in residency
TIKA
26. February – 8. March 2011
/A WORD OF ART 66 ALBERT RD WOODSTOCK INDUSTRIAL CENTRE

artist walkabout and preview on the 26. February at 6pm
Opening 26. Feb 8pm till late
with music by Oy (live)
DJ's
Remy Gold?
Spoek Mathambo?
Binary?
Chiri Moya

the residency is kindly sponsored by Pro Helvetia, A Word Of Art, Woodstock Industrial Centre and One K



TIKA's Artist Statement:

TIKA’s work is a reflection on today’s global society, as well as the forgotten traditions and sagas of the past. TIKA has visited many places around the world, not just to travel but to get to know the local people and learn about their current situation along with what histories and traditions they grew up with. Born in Switzerland, TIKA grew up in Cairo, Brussels, Cologne, and Zurich, where she currently lives when not diving her time between Berlin and Rio de Janeiro. The name TIKA originally came from antibiotika, the German word for antibiotics. It’s also hindi-slang for ‘tilaka’, the different blessing-signs that Hindus wear as a symbol of power to protect the third eye. When you’re asked, “How are you?” in Hindi, you reply “TIKA!” to say that you’re fine. She studied at ZHDK but, as the artist explains, “it was learning about the D.I.Y. and cultural squat scene, reading a lot, living in a different places in the world, and painting on the streets that got me where I am today.” “What occupies my mind most is the diversity of points of views on life,” says TIKA. “Like the development of cities, how this affects spaces for self-determined living and projects. How buildings full of history get ripped down to be replaced by glass cubes. The effects globalization has on regional and traditional habits and architecture. Love, vanity and loss of people. How long and short at the same time a life can be and the before and after of it. I like to read about sagas and myth, about the written down and told to be true history and the actual circumstances in politics, economy and environment.  What inspires me is everyday life. Random people on the streets, how they dress and talk and, if I get to talk to them, what and how they think. Of course, in the days of Internet I pick up a lot of information and inspiration through there, as well. Still, I try to read and see and think as often as possible without a computer between. When I create, it's like all experiences and thoughts run through me and out again. The feeling of creating while I paint, draw, write or cook is similar: I forget time while I'm at it.”? TIKA has left traces on the streets of Zürich, Bern, Basel, St. Gallen, Glarus, Berlin, Potsdam, Dresden, Munich, Cologne, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Salvador da Bahia, Belo Horizonte, New York, L.A., San Francisco, Paris, Praha, Biarritz, Marseille, Barcelona, Madrid, Milano, London, Vienna, Sofia, Amsterdam, Istanbul, Cape Town, Buenos Aires, Mexico D.F., Gvernavaca, and Puerto Escondido. She has put on solo exhibitions in Amsterdam, Vienna, Berlin, and Rio de Janiero, and participated in various group shows around the world, including New York, L.A., Sofia, Mexico D.F., Milano, and Madrid. TIKA is currently participating in a three month residency in Cape Town through Pro Helvetia, /A WORD OF ART, One k, and the Woodstock Industrial Centre.??“I'm learning a lot about South African history and current effects of  Apartheid,” she says. “I will take these imputs and let them go as the view of someone who is not grown up here into my solo show ‘KAPTIKA’ (a mix of the German word KAPSTADT and TIKA). All of the work included will be made during my stay in Cape Town.”

PEACOCK WOODCUTPRINT

woodcutprint, acrylic on paper, 56x60cm
Cape Town, South Africa 02/2011

LION WOODCUTPRINT

woodcutprint, acrylic on paper, 56x60cm
Cape Town, South Africa 02/2011

WARRIOR WOODCUTPRINT

woodcutprint, acrylic on paper, 56x60cm
Cape Town, South Africa 02/2011

TIKA CAPE TIMES ARTICLE

Cape Times / Cape Town 11/02/2011

LION & PEACOCK

at the corner Buitenkant and Commercial street
my first wall with a cherrypicker
Cape Town 02/2011 

pictures taken by Jonx
a big thankyouverymuch to Ricky, Juma, Willard, Edward, Adrian, /A WORD OF ART, Pro Helvetia & African Acess

MEIN HERZ SO WEISS III / MY HEART SO WHITE III

burned, woodcut and acrilic on wood
52x34cm inclusive frame
Cape Town 01/2011

«Mein Herz so weiss» ist eine Serie von Brandbildern in Holz. Inspiriert durch das gleichnamige Buch von Javier Mariaz das mir meine Freundin Liza vor Jahren empfohlen hat. Weiss steht für die Naivität und das Herz für Emotionen. In der Serie wird die Naivität der Einzelnen durch die Realität des Lebens bedrängt. 

In diesem Bild sind es die Eindrücke die in Cape Town auf mich einprasselten. 
Einerseits der noch stark zu spürende Unterschied zwischen den Rassen, sprich post Apartheit. Andererseits wie sich Armut und Reichtum nebeneinander zu Extremen entfalten. Kapstadts Zentrum erscheint mir wie eine schillernd glänzende, parfümierte Seifenblase mit schicken Läden und Cafes. Grossen Autos, Swimmingpools, äusserst modebewussten Menschen und weiss, strahlenden Häusern. 
Die Townships hingegen, ich war in Gugulethu, versinken im Müll und in giftgrün stehendem Wasser indem sich grosse Ratten tummeln. Die Erwachsenen sind oft HIV positiv, wenige werden alt, und die Kinder gehen oft garnicht erst in die Schule. 
Ich lebe in Woodstock wo sich diese Gegensätze vermischen. Dadurch wird mir geraten das ich Nachts nicht auf die Strasse soll und ständig hört man von Übergriffen. Letztes Wochenende war ich Nachmittags hier in der Nachbarschaft malen. Ich hab Azeeza kennengelernt, sie unterrichtet die Kinder in der Moschee nebenan und hat mich spontan bei sich zuhause zum Bairani essen eingeladen. Wir hatten ein langes Gespräch über «verwurzelt sein oder ein Nomaden Leben führen» und das beides gut ist weil die einen den Andern dann ihre Erfahrungen mitteilen können. Darüber wie wichtig die Familie ist und wie froh sie ist all ihre Kinder und Enkel bei sich in der Strasse wohnen zu haben und ich wie dankbar ich bin so tolle Eltern und den besten Bruder zu haben. Sie hat mich verabschiedet mit der Ansage, das wenn irgendwer mich bedrohen sollte ich nur sie als Referenz angeben soll. Alle kennen sie. Dieses Erlebnis, und auch die Kinder Woodstocks die bei mir sassen als ich gemalt habe und auch gezeichnet haben, lassen mich meine Soloausstellung KAPTIKA dem Stadtteil Woodstock widmen.

Zurück zu diesem Bild: Die gebrannte und geschnittene Meerjungfrau steht symbolisch für die Unterdrückung der Rasse als auch Tradition. Denn ausser an den Touristenmärkten hab ich bisher wenig traditionelles, eigenes gesehen. Die helle Kuh steht für gewinnmaximierenden Kapitalismus. Das Gedankengut das alles immer mehr und besser und schöner werden muss. Was in Kapstadt frei zu sein scheint ist die Natur, der Papagei-was-auch-immer Vogel und der Mond.

OKULTIKA SOUTH AFRICA

altarlike Installation inspired by the action chapel and muezzin chants from the Woodstock neighbourhood and dedicated to the eggplant with a nose

LÖWIN / LIONESS

inspired by the turkishness of Kreuzberg
acrylic, needles and scratching on canvas, 18x24cm
Berlin 11/2010

NIXLI / MEARMAID

inspired by the turkishness of Kreuzberg
acrylic, scratching, collage of metallic paper and needles on canvas 16x22cm
Berlin 11/2010

PFAU /PEACOCK

inspired by the turkishness of Kreuzberg
acrylic, needles and scratching on canvas, 18x24cm
Berlin 11/2010

RIDING THE GENTRIFICATION BEAST

wallpainting 
Berlin 11/2010

EIN GÄNSCHEN RUPFEN / PLUCKING THE GOOSE

if something has happened you don't agree with, the discussion resulting we call in german: ein Hühnchen rupfen / plucking the chicken

ink on paper 21x27cm<
Kreuzberg Berlin 11/2010

KÜSSENKALENDER 2011 OKTOBER

KÜSSEN is a Berlin based silkscreenstudio which releases a calendar each year.
I was asked to print the month of OCTOBER 2011
I did 340 pages with 3 rounds in irisprint
thanks to Thomas for assistance

MUNDIALISTIKA WOODCUT & PRINT

expositionview of the work MUNDIALISTIKA at stroke 0.3
Berlin 10/2010

BUMBA MEU BOI / BOUNCE MY BEEF

this painting is inspired by the «bumba meu boi» tradition from Brazil where people during carnevaltime build cow costumes around them and dress as harlequins and dance.
watch the making of here

acrylic and scratching on canvas, 200x310cm
Berlin, Germany 10/2010

WÄCHTER DER BINZ / GUARDS OF THE BINZ

painted on the entry of a squatted factory
spray, acrilic, scratching on pvc door, 250x500cm
Zürich 09/2010

MARIO

for the birthday of a good friends loved one

acrylic, oilpastell & gouache on paper 150X250cm
Zürich 09/2010

VELOVE AT NIGHT

for the Art Cycle 4 exposition at Inoperable Gallery in Vienna
spray, marker, acrylic and scratch on wood, ca. 20x35cm
Bregenz 09/2010

SEREIA EVAPORANDO / EVAPORATING MEARMAID

when the summer is so hot that all the water seems to evaporate
paste-up on door
Berlin 09/2010

LOVE

inkdrawing on thin papercut, mounted in woodframe Berlin 08/2010

AFRIKA BOHNENGOLD WARRIOR

painted papercut pasteup on lightbox 42x58cm
Kreuzberg Berlin 08/2010

MEIN HERZ SO WEISS II / MY HEART SO WHITE II

inspired by the title of a book by Javier Mariaz
burned and acrilic on wood, 20 x 30cm
Zürich 08/2010

AN UNDERWATER TALE

with Roa
sunday afternoon in a lightblue outdoor skatepool with Bo and Base around aswell. Summer rules! :)
spray, acrylic and scratch on wall ca.2.50x4m
Friedrichshein Berlin 07/2010

MEIN HERZ SO WEISS I / MY HEART SO WHITE I

inspired by a book by Javier Mariaz
burned and acrilic on wood, 16.5 x 33cm 
Zürich 06/2010

CHICKENHEAD

a wall put together out of random woodpieces painted during one day at Scope Art Basel 06/2010

CROCODILE WARRIOR

with Nesk 
Binz, Zürich, 06/2010

FACEBOOK BRAZIL STIKAS

gold, black and white uv silkscreenprint on transparent vynil stickerfoil, limited edition of 500 sheets 21x15cm sold out
drawn in Rio de Janeiro, printed in Zürich 05/2010

ABOUT PIRATS, PARROTS AND THE SEA

with Yasmim
privat residency, Lapa, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil 05/2010

RIOTIKA SKULL

RIOTIKA II soloshow
lightinstallation
Rio de Janeiro, Brasil 05/2010

RIOTIKA II SOLOSHOW AT LA CUCARACHA GALLERY RIO DE JANEIRO 2010

05/2012 Rio de Janeiro

YEMANJA

Salvador da Bahia / Buenos Aires / Rio de Janeiro / Zürich / Berlin 2010

CHAPEL DE URUBU

VULTURE HAT 
Rio de Janeiro 04/2010

present to João Lelo

MONSTRUOS

with Mondo Lila
Buenos Aires 04/2010

GUERREIRAS SOLTANDO OS BIXOS — O SOM DO BERIMBAU

WARRIORS LET GO THE BEASTS — THE SOUND OF A BERIMBAU

Swiss cooks have founded the project cuisine sans frontiere with the idear, that food brings together people, is a good opportunity to have conversations and through that creat a better environment. I spent five weeks with a chef and an administrator to translate and paint a mural in the favela Cidade de Plastico in Periperi in Salvador da Bahia.

We danced «rebolation», we ate rice and beans every day, we ran because of shootings and then saw the shot guy get carried away in a hand barrol, we were right next to the beach and every evening there was a sunset like an impresionist painting, the radio refreshed my musicmemories of the 80ies «heal the world», Elton Jhon and Erasure whise, kids drawing on their papers and tables and chairs causing another fight which belonged to the daily routine, dragquenns giving an audience on friday nights. Making new friends and having hours and hours of conversations and beers. Thanks to Cusisine sans Frontier, Sonja und Sonja, MSTB, Natal, Grazielli, Kelly, Emol, Julio, Thais, Bigode, Questão, ICEBE and all the other people!

4x20m
Salvador da Bahia 03/2010

TIKA HELL YEAH ARTICLE

winter 2010

CARNAVAL NO RIO

Rio de Janeiro 02/2010

OKULTIKA BRAZIL

altarlike Installation inspired by candomble, macumba and umbanda, the grocerys purchased at the market and the overkill of jewellery and costumes produced for carnaval

WALDMANNLI / FORESTMAN

I spent newyear 2009/2010 in this chalet in the swiss mountains in Sedrun, Bündnerland. While searching for tales out of this region i found this one of a «Waldmannli» (small man out of the forest) 

In a small mountaintown in Graubünden there lived once a juryman. One day this man found a very bizzare animal in his garden as he has never seen one before. It was a small furry, black animal, with a red nosed snout and big claws but eyes so small it seemed it could not open them and with small sharp vampirelike teeth. He put this creature in a box and wandered in the village to find out what he has found. But no one knew what it was. Not even the books. So the towneldest decided to announce a gathering of all the villagers and mountainpeople. But still nobody had ever seen such a thing. So after long discussions they then decided that it would be best to kill this thing. On the way how to do it they couldn't agree. That's when the Waldmannli stepped forward and asked to have a look at he beast...
which he at once recognised as a harmless mole. Smirkingly he suggested to the villagers to burry it alife. Pleased of this easy, simple and even chep way they burried it alife in the jurymans garden where it has been found.
Broadly grinning the Wldmannli walked off and the mole strated digging the garden till it looked like an acnefaced teenager.

spray and acrylic on wall
Sedrun, Switzerland 01/2010

FREE THE BIRD

this cat came to visit me alot while I had the visarte studio 
Zürich 09/2009

WHEN THE SOUL GOES OUT I

about vanity and how short and the same time long a life is
thoughts on a trainride from Berlin to Zürich 09/2009
ink, penpall and marker on paper, 15x21cm

VELOVE

graphit, acrylic and gold ink on found wood
24x43cm
Zürich 09/2009
for Art Cycle 3 at Inoperable Gallery, Vienna

GARDEN SECRETS

where she hides all her secrets for her beautiful garden
acrylic, scratch on wooden door, 200x250cm, Zürich 09/2009

GOATFLU II

a nice day with Book, Onio and Lelo in an abandoned russian army base.

where I painted this goatflu piece used to be the Kantine. there where also still some russian signs on the walls. a very impressive space

spray and acrylic and scratch on wall
Potsadam 08/2009

GOATFLU I

everybody was talking about birdflu, then they were hyping swineflu, pharmaconcerns cashing on tamiflu...
and me I managed to get hit by the goat flu.

one week with Lelo on the Spycherberg Alp im Berner Oberland
goats, flies, pigs, flies, cows, flies, chicken and flies

helping to milk the goats, baking pizza in the woodoven, whatching the Sennen making goatcheese, walking up till the last bits of snow, baking nutbread, roasting bacon, beeing with my Äti Roman, save brushes from the goats curiosity...

Spycherberg Alp, Berner Oberland 07/2009

MIT HERZ UND HIRN / WITH HEART AND BRAIN

with Kboco
Berlin 06/2009

TIKA AMATEUR ARTICLE

06-10/2009

GIMPEL

han äs Herzeli wien äs Vögeli darum liebeni so ring
Zürich 04/2009

RIOTIKA SOLOSHOW AT SUPALIFE KIOSK BERLIN 2008

RIOTIKA / SUPALIFE edition of 12
silkscreenprint on posterwalls ripped down from the streets
printed by centrifuga
Berlin 10/2010

FREE THE LINDWURM

for the ANIMALISTIKA soloshow at Inoperable Gallery Vienna
Vienna 08/2008

FREE THE CAT

for the ANIMALISTIKA soloshow at Inoperable Gallery Vienna
on the train Zürich — Vienna 08/2008

FREE THE FOX

for the ANIMALISTIKA soloshow at Inoperable Gallery Vienna
on the train Zürich — Vienna 08/2008

ILLUSTRE BATTLE

with Atzgerei, Adhocrates & Rich-Art
painting a skateramp in the Museumsquartier Vienna 05/2008

FOX & TIKA

Zürich, Switzerland 05/2008

GREEDY PEACOCK

what it has it doesn't like and what it wants it doesn't get
acrylic and alutape on papercut pasteup
Zürich, Switzerland 05/2008

TREES DON'T MEET, PEOPLE DO!

with VGBS, Guifari, Obetre and others
Bruxelles, Belgium 04/2008

RÜEBLIFÜETTERIG / CARROTFEEDING

with Drax OT
Lettä Zürich, Switzerland 03/2008

OBRIGADA / THANK YOU

thank you to everyone that made my stay in Rio so incredible and a happy 2008 painting
foto: Yasmim Asade
Morro da Gloria, Rio de Janeiro 01/2008

VANITAS WOODCUTPRINT

serie of 50 woodcut prints, latex on carbon paper, 46cm x 65cm
Rio de Janeiro 12/2007

SCHWARZER KATER / BLACK CAT

inspired by the book «Master & Margarita» by Mickael Bulgakov
Santa Theresa, Rio de Janeiro 12/2007

CALUMET & TOMAHAWK

with Eltono
Patio Maravilhoso Madrid 06/2007

DIA DE LOS MUERTOS

TIKA & M8 at Miss Hecker offspace in Berlin 11/2006

TGS WORLDWIDE

our crewshow
with ENTA & M8
at First Ladies offspace
Zürich 05/2006

TIKA PEEL ARTICLE

peel magazine 006, Usa
spring 2006