Maik Helfrich

Maik (he/him) works as a freelance artist and was mainly active in the Saar-Lor-Lux region until 2013. As part of the artist group zkk – Zentrum für kabelgebundene Kunst, he created stage designs for theater and opera as well as lighting concepts for music clubs, festivals and art in architecture. His work as a VJ and on interactive installations brought him closer to his lifelong hobby of (video) games. After completing his diploma in fine arts at the hbksaar in Saarbrücken from 2007 to 2013, he deepened his knowledge in the master's program Games at the HAW in Hamburg from 2014 and was employed there as an artistic-scientific assistant from 2017 to 2024. Since 2024, he has been teaching the Game Art and Design course at the HBK in Essen.