Mirjam Pajakowski's artistic practice encompasses sculpture, installation, painting and drawing. Her work focuses on transience and the tension between beginning and end, birth and death of material and form – themes that become visible in the different stages of development of her works. The viewer therefore not only sees the finished results but also finds themself in the creative process and gains an insight into the genesis. Pajakowski follows a transformational approach. A central role is played by casts of her own body, which are intended less as anatomically correct images and more as a metaphorical process of moulting. The moult becomes a symbol of change, adaptation and transition – between inside and outside, intimacy and publicity. It stands for the confrontation with one's own vulnerability and the search for a new balance. She describes the oftentimes painful but necessary process of adapting to changing life circumstances. In doing so, her own body becomes a resonance chamber that reflects and makes visible personal processes of change. She is constantly searching for an artistic language that touches on both personal and universal issues and, at the same time, dissolves the boundaries between these levels.