Michael Kalki is known for his expressive paintings that involve the relationships of individuals and their combined relationship to the world. Kalki's paintings reveal a world that is socially unconnected. Fragments of bodies and personalities collide within the context of dream-like landscapes. His work conveys a lack of interpersonal communication and the breakdown of society- a conflict between the human condition and the technology of the modern world. This is how Michael Kalki explains the meaning of his fragmental paintings: "It has to do with what I want to show and what I don't want to show. In such way as I paint a special expression of a face. And I'm only interested in this expression and not the whole figure. Distortion is one possibility of appearance and it's a kind of exaggeration which leads to caricature There is no connection between the fragmented parts on the painting. It's an encounter of fragments from various realities".

The artist  graduated at "Kunstakademie Dusseldorf", Germany in 98, and did his postgraduate studies at "Central Academy of Fine Arts Beijing", China from 98 to 2000.

Michael Kalki
Charly's Tante, 2004
Oil on canvas
190x160cm