Mikael Bhurgri
About Mikael
Mikael Bhurgri (b. 1997, Mirpurkhas, Pakistan) is a visual artist currently living and working in Karachi, Pakistan.
Bhurgri received his Bachelor’s in Interior Design from the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture. After accumulating a decade of experience in the field of architecture and interior design, Bhurgri shifted his practice to fine arts and painting.
Working primarily in acrylics and hand-ground pigments, including a red made from roses grown in his own garden, Bhurgri’s large-scale canvases explore memory, place, and longing through surreal interiors and atmospheric abstraction.
His work has been exhibited at Numaish Gah Gallery and O Art Space in Lahore, Pakistan.
From the Artist
Living in a country rich in heritage, where the ethos is shaped by religion and constantly negotiating post-colonial influences and the pull of the global north, I find that the search for individuality is at the heart of my work. I see divinity in the mundane, and that is where my self-expression begins.
Through nostalgic structures, familiar foods, and shifting light, I create imagery rooted in the everyday. I build sunlit, often abandoned spaces filled with echoes of presence and stories left untold. Human traces and furnishings become tools to reflect on decay and mortality, revealing the fragility of these transient places.
My practice allows me to return to the lush gardens and simplicity of my hometown, Mirpurkhas, which stands in contrast to the masked richness of urban life. Dreams and memories shape the worlds I create, and light, to me, carries something divine. It is both subject and symbol.
Inspired by art history and the passage of time, I continue to explore the tension between impermanence and the lasting presence of something sacred, both in the domestic and in the collective.
