Portfolio – Stories & Art by Kaikaoss
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We want to give you an insight into the works of Kaikaoss – including background information, stories, and facts about each piece.
Although we cannot display every work, we aim to present a selection that offers a comprehensive impression of Kaikaoss’s artistic creations.
Thank you for your interest – and enjoy exploring!
“Between Sea and Twilight” (oil on canvas, 110 × 150 cm) by Kaikaoss is a dream in color, a gentle passage between worlds.
A young woman in a white dress, enveloped in a mysterious violet glow, stands before a window that is more than a window: a threshold to the sea at twilight. While night embraces the room around her, within the framed seascape another horizon shimmers — a fragile balance between day and night, between water and sky. Her gaze is so intent that one senses her desire to cross over, as if boundaries could dissolve and the image itself become real.
Surreal signs disturb the stillness: fish drift weightlessly through the room, as though they had already escaped the sea beyond. Above her hangs a lamp whose light warms the scene — yet instead of merely glowing, it releases falling rose petals, like fragments of a dream made visible.
Here, opposites meet in quiet harmony: darkness and light, interior and beyond, reality and longing. With this work, Kaikaoss offers not just a painting, but an invitation to wander between realms — to step into that liminal space where sea and twilight touch.
Sound of Color – Music in the Art of Kaikaoss"
This series centers around music – as a theme, a mood, a silent rhythm. Notes, instruments, and still life elements blend into visual compositions full of sound and color.
Kaikaoss studied the clarinet as a hobby, taking lessons with a teacher.
“One day, I’ll learn it properly,” he says with a smile.
Until then, the music plays through his paintings – quietly, vividly, and full of expression.
Life Is a Gamble” – Playing Cards in the Art of Kaikaoss
Playing cards run like a red thread through Kaikaoss’s work — not as a literal game, but as a symbol of life, fate, and risk. They appear as card houses, flying symbols, crowns, or quiet still lifes.
For Kaikaoss, playing cards are a metaphor for life itself:
“Life is a game. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose — and sometimes fate decides with a single roll. But only those who stay in the game can win.”
The cards embody luck, chance, focus, but also deception and impermanence — an ambiguity Kaikaoss explores in his unique style.
Building on art history traditions—from Caravaggio’s cards as deceit, Basquiat’s expressive symbols, to Cézanne’s meditative still lifes—Kaikaoss presents life as a game between control and chaos, stability and decay.
His key work, The House of Cards (in the IFC World Bank collection), shows two figures delicately building a card house — a fragile human construct ready to collapse at any moment.
In Life Is a Game, cards swirl in the air with people behind them: are they players or spectators? Controlling their fate, or controlled by it?
In After the Game, cards lie beside a pocket watch and wallet, a quiet, melancholic reflection on time, choices, and luck.
Kaikaoss’s playing cards invite us to reflect, interpret, and wonder — just like life itself: unpredictable, yet full of possibility.
"The Gambler with a Bird" is a multi-layered, profound work about the game of life, perception, power, and identity. Kaikaoss uses everyday symbols — eggs, cards, coins — and elevates them through composition to a higher level of meaning. The bird on the man’s head is not just a visual detail, but a key to interpretation: between cultural madness and spiritual wisdom, a figure emerges who may understand more than anyone else. Within the absurdity of the scene lies a quiet truth: those who seem mad sometimes see more clearly — especially when everyone else is blind.
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The Minstrel
Kaikaoss has returned to the figure of the minstrel again and again in his work — so much so that he even dedicated an entire exhibition to this theme. The fascination is unmistakable. Kaikaoss’s
minstrels always carry playing cards, musical instruments, and bags, as if these objects were inseparable from their identity. They seem like wanderers, moving from town to town, entertaining
audiences — sometimes as musicians, sometimes as storytellers, sometimes as enigmatic players.
But perhaps there is something deeper: maybe we are all minstrels in our own way — always traveling, always moving between places, roles, and encounters, playing and telling stories to carry on the journey of life.
"The Golden Key" depicts a young lady in a white dress, wearing a bird mask, meeting the viewer with a calm, enigmatic gaze. Around her, parrots, sparrows, and other birds fly freely and fearlessly, while beneath the table, more birds mingle with a cat, creating a subtle tension. On the left, a dark door holds a golden key — a symbol of hidden knowledge and mysterious possibilities.
The scene blends the dreamlike with the real, harmony with mystery. The white dress glows against the dark doorway, enhancing the magical atmosphere. The Golden Key invites reflection on innocence, curiosity, and the unseen forces that surround us.
