1954

Born in Düsseldorf, Germany

1970

Short Stories, Poetry, Drawings

1971

Object Art, Experimental Music

1973-1974

Studies in Social Sciences, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf

1974-1984

Studies in Comparative Religions, Ethnology and Indology, M.A. Friedrich-Wilhelm-University Bonn, Germany

1977

Acoustic Environments, Performances, Installations

1981

Cooperation with the painter Douglas Swan

Studies in Painting

Since 1983

Abstract Painting

Works in private and public collections

International art fair participation by Michael Burges: Art Basel, Art Cologne, Art Toronto, New York and many more. He has been represented at more than 90 art fairs to date.

Michael Burges reactivates the old, traditional technique of painting behind glass, which is rarely used in contemporary art. "My interest is not in traditional painting, but in the painting processes themselves, which take place, and thus bears neither a personal signature nor a message. In my painting the matter is the actual actor. This means that I let the material perform itself through physical or chemical structural processes.“ The painting material is applied directly to the reverse side of the Plexiglas pane.

Through the added construction of a reverse frame via a special adhesive technique, this unique way of painting acquires an outstanding presence of a frameless, "free-floating" pane.