Michaël Brack

Michaël Brack is a French painter and draftsman whose work drifts between silence and unease. Using oil, ink, and charcoal, he creates sparse interiors, corridors, staircases, and passages that feel suspended in time with places emptied of people but charged with presence.

Self-taught and based in Paris, Brack began in the late 1990s with fantasy illustrations for RPG magazines before turning fully to painting. Today, his practice centers on atmosphere: precise compositions, controlled lighting, and a quiet tension that slowly unsettles the viewer.

Influenced by painters such as Hopper, Hammershøi, and Degouve de Nuncques, as well as 19th-century Romanticism and cinema (from Argento to Lynch), his images often originate from photographs he takes while wandering. These fragments of the real world are distilled into haunting, minimal scenes, familiar yet strangely off.

An invitation to slow down, look closer, and linger in the spaces in between.