Olaf Hajek

Olaf Hajek is one of the most renowned contemporary German illustrators. In his inimitable, award-winning style, he examines and dismantles the boundaries between reality and imagination, integrating aspects of South American folklore, mythology, religion, history and geography. With artistic virtuosity and intellectual calculation, he transposes excerpts of reality with seemingly surreal juxtapositions into a new and exciting mystical frame of meaning. Characteristic of his work is the much valued graphic style, in which exaggerated figures are often placed in a theatrical context.