Pascal
Wild

Pascal Wild (1991 in Darmstadt, lives and works in Berlin) is a self-taught painter who expresses himself through a wide range of media – including oil, acrylic, spray paint, and pastel. His visual language is characterized by vibrant, pop-inspired colors, cartoon-like figures, and a deliberately childlike aesthetic. Yet behind this playful surface lies a depth in which humor and unease, lightness and gravity are inseparably intertwined.

His works draw on archetypes, collective narratives, and personal experiences, translating them into reduced, exaggerated figures. Oversized heads, wide-open eyes, and simplified body forms evoke children’s drawings or comics, but they carry an emotional weight that addresses themes such as dependency, transience, intoxication, and emptiness.

What is striking in Wild’s aesthetics is its ambivalence: what at first glance appears naïve, colorful, and comical reveals itself on closer inspection as a parable of human experiences marked by fractures and contradictions. Positioned between Pop Art, Street Art, and archetypal symbolism, his imagery frames the “inner child” not as nostalgic innocence, but as an attitude of openness and immediacy. In this way, his painting inhabits the threshold between surface and existential depth, between comedy and tragedy, between lightness and the abyss.