Kirti Michel

Born 1950.
In the year 1970 I started playfully working with paper cuttings glueing them together in a bizarre, surrealistic fashion. Later from 1982 on I discovered that creating collages was a way of expressing my dream world. It became kind of a therapy joining contrasting images and various concepts in the field of my perception.
The intention of making a collage was always to create a mystical Space that unifies the polar opposites....

DREAMWORLDS: Images of another reality.

About forty years ago I experienced an unexpected change in the way of seeing the world. At that time I was living in Rishikesh, India, at the foot of the Himalayas, to learn the classical body postures of Hatha Yoga. One day my teacher sent me to New Delhi to deliver a written message to one of his older disciples. A registered letter would have fulfilled the purpose much easier and cheaper. Maybe it was just a good pretext for me to receive one of the most radical experiences of my life:
“Kirti”, he said to me, „in the coming week you should be just like a camera with a wide open lens. Let in all impressions randomly, without being for or against, without interpreting or judging the things you see, evalueing them as ‘bad’ or ‘good’. In order no...

I am a Yoga Instructor since 1982.
I studied Yoga, Meditation and Indian philosophy for nine years in India from 1972 - 1981.
Apart from that I wrote 4 books about Meditation, Yoga practise and reincarnation therapy and one satirical novel.
Yoga-Website:
http://www.kirti-michel-yoga.jimdo.com
Arts-Website:
http://www.kirti-p-michel-traumwelten.jimdo.com/

11. March - 14. May 2000
"Traumwelten"-Exhibition Kirti Michel
MeridianSpa - Spirit
Hamburg, Wandsbeker Zollstraße 87

8. May - 27. June 2014
Katrin Grote & Kirti Peter Michel
"Das Haus der Seele" (Soul Mansions)
Ärztehaus Hannover, Berliner Allee 20

21. Oktober - 30. November
"Träume auf Papier" Exhibition
Gallery MeridianSpa Eppendorf, Hamburg