Artists
Berlin is the capital of art. International artists live and work here. We have had the privilege of working with some of them – they opened their doors to us, supported us in workshops or shared their input.
learned stage and costume design at the Berlin Schaubühne and then completed a degree in Fine Arts in Brussels. Paula still works in the field of stage and costume design, but also designs jewellery and creates artistic settings for interiors. Paula also regularly implements art education projects and schools and museums.
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Project: Ephra unterwegs
Paula Anke
has completed an apprenticeship in pottery. In her work, she asks questions about social responsibility and political vigilance. Her videos, performances, spatial installations, large-scale crayon drawings and vessels always refer to her everyday life and question social constructs.
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Project: Ephra unterwegs
Photo: Lena Herzog
Uli Aigner
creates installations that are often composed of drawings, paintings, photographs, texts, and performative rituals. In her art, Irene explores new concepts of spirituality, caring, and the healing powers of art in the context of health. Irene has accumulated the objects for her installations over years. Thus, they always form connections to her own history and origins.
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Project: Ephra unterwegs
Irene Fernandez Arcas
Ilit Azoulay
studied photography. In her studio in Schöneberg, she assembles collages - mainly on the computer - from thousands and thousands of photos, like a mosaic. Sometimes it takes years, that's how time-consuming it is. Sometimes Ilit also integrates sound into the collages. And secret stories she knows too!
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Project: Ephra unterwegs
Photo: Philippa Halder
In his artwork, the German-Lebanese artist Said Baalbaki combines the cultural and artistic roots of his homeland with the contemporary discourses of his adopted country. He lives and works mainly in Berlin, but also temporarily in Beirut. The children were particularly impressed by his suitcase paintings. Said explained to us how he makes the colours glow.
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Project: Ephra unterwegs
Said Baalbaki
Jessica Backhaus
does not manipulate her photographs in any way. She neither stages nor allows artificial light. She uses her camera to capture unique moments and small details whose charm unfolds through close observation. In this way, her works of art are evidence of an enchanting, beautiful reality.
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Project: It's about time
Photo: Ilaria Turba
mainly creates sculptures and drawings. In his artistic practice, Quirin deals with different positions and combines them with different forms. He develops his own language from individual fragments. During our visit to his studio, Quirin explains why colours are important in his art, even though he rarely uses them.
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Project: Ephra unterwegs
Quirin Bäumler
describes himself as an illusionist. With the help of paper and cardboard, Thomas faithfully recreates familiar places and then destroys them. Only the large-format photographs that the artist takes of the objects beforehand show the constructions in retrospect. When Thomas presents them, he places them unusually low on the wall so that everyone can view the scene at eye level.
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Thomas Demand
The Ukrainian-German artist explores and deals mainly with animation and illustration. Ilya also works as a graphic designer. In the past few years, he has developed several short feature films, but also worked on image films and music films.
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Project: Ephra unterwegs
Ilya Barrett
works as a painter and set designer. She focuses on spaces, interiors and exterior worlds and works from photographic templates that weave together to form a dense pictorial complex with multiple perspectives. With her paintings, she showed the children how she sees the city - multi-layered and colourful.
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Photo: David Reuter
Sabine Beyerle
works on research-based projects that often involve different disciplines and are based on collective work. In his work, Christian narrates his post-migrant biography and highlights the socio-political, economic and aesthetic connections between Colombia and Germany. With his art he wants to move towards activism and non-conformity, resorting mainly to the media of drawing, film and poetry.
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Project: Ephra unterwegs
Christian Diaz
Konstantino Dregos
finding art is inevitable. He translates his feelings and thoughts onto large-format canvases, on which he paints and draws abstract shapes with various pencils, chalks or brushes. It can happen that he neither sleeps nor eats for three, sometimes even five day.
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Projects: Ephra at home, Berlin Art Week
works primarily with large-scale installations and collages. Her multi-faceted practices, ranging from drawings and animations to furniture pieces and sculptures, explore the connection between architecture, art history, gender theories and identity politics.
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Project: Ephra unterwegs
Photo: Benjakon
Ahu Dural
Ambra Durante
paints, writes and draws pictures and books. She tries to put everything she feels and thinks into tiny little figures. Even as a child, drawing and painting helped her to cope with the world and find a way to deal with sadness. In her comic Black Box Blues, she drew about the fear of growing up.
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Projects: Ephra at home, Berlin Art Week
Photo: Ephra
typically works with drawings, paintings and illustrations. Her work builds up on the style of comic books. Bilge develops vivid, unique characters who discover a world that is almost familiar to ours.
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Project: Ephra unterwegs
Bilge Emir
works as an artist and musician. In his artistic work “Future Visioning”, he deals with the future. Özcan reads from the coffee grounds and has developed an artificial intelligence that does the same. The aim is to explore the potential of the collective imagination to shape a better future for people and the planet and to start a conversation about it.
Özcan Ertek
Albrecht Fersch
is primarily concerned in his art with physical phenomena in nature such as light, water, movement and reflection. In sometimes very elaborate experiments and installations - often in public spaces - he explores the significance of art in the world in general. In Berlin, the artist works with a large studio consisting of craftspeople, architects, archivists, researchers, programmers and art historians.
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Project: Thoughts Play Hide and Seek
Photo: Lars Borges
Olafur Eliasson
Performance artist, vocal worker, costume and set designer, music and video producer, draughtsman. All of this applies to Özgür Erkok. He also gives comic workshops at the Neukölln Youth Art School and has opened the doors to his living room studio to us. He is usually normal.
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Project: Ephra unterwegs
Özgür Erkök
Moroder
The performance and installation artist Albrecht Fersch wanders back and forth between the disciplines and often incorporates lyrical and musical means into his works. In his art, Albrecht wants to show relationships and visualise connections. The themes he is dealing with are interconnectedness, connection, identity dispersion, order and chaos. He shows us the unusual instruments he creates during our visit to his studio.
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Project: Ephra unterwegs
Jay Gard
Jay Gard's works include expansive installations as well as sculptural murals. They are characterized by geometric forms, conceptually structured, and consist primarily of wood, plywood, and steel, whose surfaces he paints with industrial colors. His current works are devoted to color schemes and their compositional effect.
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Project: Ephra unterwegs
Photo: Fritz Bornstück
works in disciplines of visual and performing arts, preferably at transitions and joints between fields of arts and sciences. He is a multimedia artist, director, inventor, draughtsman, painter, sculptor, musician and author. When we visited him in his studio, we were allowed to immerse ourselves in the world of smells.
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Project: Ephra unterwegs
Photo: Katharina Hornig
Wolfgang Georgsdorf
grew up in Freeport and in Maine. Now he is living in Berlin. In his art, Ethan explores the ideas of self-reliance, self-preservation and self-exclusion. He translates these concepts into paintings, sculptures, artist's books, but also large-scale installations. Ethan Hayes-Chute has already built houses in Germany, France, Norway and the USA. In his studio in Berlin, there is one material in particular - wood.
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Project: Ephra unterwegs
Photo: Gustaf Waesterberg
Ethan Hayes-Chute
Jeppe Hein
describes herself as a communication sculptor who wants to use her art to explore the relationships between verbal and non-verbal communication. For inspiration, she observes the behaviour of people within the society. Stella absorbs these impressions like a sponge and returns them through her art to the outside world in a modified form.
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Project: Ephra unterwegs
Stella Geppert
is a conceptual artist and sculptor. Among other things, she uses material impressions to make the changes in the world caused by global warming visible. For this she often travels to the Arctic, to the “eternal”(?) ice. In her studio she showed us how she works – and we were able to take our own ice sculpture blanks home with us.
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Project: Ephra unterwegs
Lena von Goedeke
Jeppe Hein's interactive artworks move at the intersection of art, architecture and technical innovations. The focus is thematically on human interaction and social relationships. Jeppe's works are characterised by their formal simplicity and humour as a recurring element. He often needs the help of many different people to realise his projects.
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Project: Ephra unterwegs
Claudia Hill
is an interdisciplinary artist who makes objects that create opportunities for personal encounters and community. Her interventions range from performative designs to the construction of large-scale, textile-based sculptures and the conception of participatory actions for art centers such as the Centre Pompidou Paris and the ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe.
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Project: Ephra unterwegs
Photo: Dorothea Tuch
Christina Huber
explores in her artistic works consisting of paintings, digital videos and performative actions questions of identity, social patterns and value concepts. These are explored on the basis of her own empirical experiences, as well as dance and body-oriented therapies, and then transferred into multi-layered, color-intensive images using walnut oil.
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Project: Ephra unterwegs
Photo: Meret Freisen
uses film, video, photography, performance but also painting, sculpture and installation for his art. In his works, he always creates connections between the art world and the outside world. In the past he has already worked with magicians, politicians, newscasters and members of the Vatican. During our visit to his studio, we mainly talked about statues and the question of what fascinates Christian so much about them.
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Project: Ephra unterwegs
Photo: Jörg Reichardt
Christian Jankoswki
is a curator, lecturer and researcher. In her research, she is particularly interested in how culture is created and how it becomes visible in digital worlds. Carmen works, for example, with menstruation tracking apps, dating apps and AI.
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Project: Berlin Art Week
Carmen Lael Hines
works as an artist, designer and illustrator. She creates installations using various techniques and materials, which are then presented or photographed in public spaces. Through her visual language, she gives ordinary things a new meaning.
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Project: Ephra unterwegs
Photo: Jelka von Langen
Sarah Illenberger
primarily deals with themes of transience and transformation in her artworks. Through movement and performance, she reveals another dimension of materiality. Thus she develops motorised sculptures and edible landscapes. In the Gropius Bau we entered non-human worlds with Anne Duk Hee.
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Project: Ephra x YOYI!, Ephra unterwegs
Anne Duk Hee Jordan
makes Paper works, glass works, video art, installations and photographic works. Ali develops unique artistic forms in which he combines point and line, flat space and depth, black and white. Despite the thoroughly analytical approach, the great sensuality of his works is touching.
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Photo: Stefanie Loos
Ali Kaaf
paints enigmatic, mysterious pictures that invite to storytelling. One is at the centre of the mystical colour landscapes that revolve around the core of being human. His studio is a laboratory in which there is much to discover. For example, his favour for linoleum.
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Project: Ephra unterwegs
Photo: Peter Adamik
Ruprecht von Kaufmann
Michelle Jezierski
works are quite different from the usual landscape paintings: Her paintings and drawings are divided into fragments, meet upside down and shifted and bring a special rhythm into the picture. In general, music and light play an important role for her, as she told us during the studio visit.
Project: Ephra unterwegs
uses a variety of materials and methods for her conceptual art and sculptures. Her work give physical presence to things that normally appear invisible. In her work she explores themes such as geopolitics, immigration and transnational identities.
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Project: Ephra unterwegs
Nadia Kaabi-Linke
worked as a Berlinale photographer for 17 years. His great talent is to capture the personality of the subject in the shortest possible time. During the festival, his photographs hung in the portrait gallery in the Berlinale Palast. He also pursues his own artistic projects. He is a human researcher and a fine observer.
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Project: Kick Off Cranach
Gerhard Kassner
is a multidisciplinary artist who works primarily with the media of painting, photography and spatial installation. Through this combination, she makes the boundaries obvious between the world of feeling and experiencing and the outside - the touchable and concrete - world.
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Project: Ephra unterwegs
Karin Kerkmann
is an American-German artist and filmmaker. He grew up in Italy and Germany, while parts of his family live in Great Britain and America. In his video works, he deals with the associated themes of loss, identity and home.
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Projects: Ephra at home, Berlin Art Week
David Krippendorff
In her intricate and colorful works, Wie-yi T. Lauw explores identity. In order to visualize the complexity and invisibility of her identity, which is shaped by a wide variety of stories, people and places, she often uses existing objects and alienates them through color, stickers, duplications and distortions.
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Project: Ephra unterwegs
Photo: Anna Bauer
Wie-yi T. Lauw
assumes that people express the subconscious through their movements. To give expression to this assumption, he combines different media in his works, such as film, music, dance and painting. With abrupt brushstrokes, Helge paints his running, jumping and leaping figures on the canvas. He explains why he likes to listen to music while he works during our visit to his studio.
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Project: Ephra unterwegs
Helge Leiberg
paints large, colorful pictures of different people, preferably friends, acquaintances and herself. She finds it fascinating how we are perceived by others and how we always recognize ourselves in others. With the bright colors she creates a new reality in art.
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Projects: Ephra at home, Berlin Art Week
Photo: Ephra
Ikram Labouini
combines art production and mediation in her work, creating participatory exhibitions. She sees playing as an important part of her creative process. In addition to artworks, she also sees workshops and projects as the main part of her artistic work.
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Project: Berlin Art Week
Katharina Lackner
Loaded with large buckets of paint and his easel under his arm, Christopher Lehmpfuhl travels to the most diverse places on this earth to paint. The paintings are pasteus, he shapes with the paint. He invited us into his studio. The children were allowed to paint on small canvases themselves after being amazed by his impressive pictures. Christopher Lehmpfuhl has even painted in the Arctic.
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Project: Ephra unterwegs
Christopher Lehmpfuhl
deals in her work with structurally based power relations and the absurdity of certain social norms. Her performances, videos and installations play with strong exaggerations and humour to reveal and ultimately deconstruct cultural codes.
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Project: Ephra unterwegs
Dafna Maimon
works as a painter and multimedia artist. In their work, Stella refers back to the visual language of Christianity and reinterprets it in a new way. Thus religious iconography meets urban motifs.
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Project: Ephra unterwegs
Photo: Andi Meyer
Stella Meris
moves between video production, writing, archiving, research and teaching in her work. She is particularly interested in the connections between desire and economy, labor and friendship, property and education, class struggles and collectivity. Laura is part of the Goldrausch Künstlerinnen project in Berlin.
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Project: Berlin Art Week
Laura Nitsch
is a philosopher and artist. He lives and works in Berlin and Peru. The cultural differences between his two places of residence play a major role in his performances. He stages his body in natural, urban and public spaces.
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Project: Berlin Art Week
Antonio Paucar
is an internationally acclaimed film director and writer for the LGBTQ+ movement. For over 30 years he has been making films that provoke people to think differently. He is an exceptional artist who challenges societal norms, one who asks many questions and dares to say what he thinks. In the Masculinities project, he shared his view of masculinity with young people in an unusual workshop.
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Project: Masculinities
Rosa von Praunheim
is a visual artist born in Romania. In her work, she combines traditional Romanian craftsmanship and materials, such as kilim carpets and ceramics, with modern designs.
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Project: Berlin Art Week
Anca Munteanu-Rimnic
combines in her art science and alchemy. In doing that, she imitates natural transformational processes and creates objects that reveal a possible future and recall vague pasts. Silvia often mixes the artificial with the natural, dissolving the strict boundaries between them.
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Project: Ephra unterwegs
Photo: Kummer-Vanotti-Stiftung
Silvia Noronha
In addition to her artistic activities, Ayumi Paul is also a violinist and composer. Therefore she explores the intersection of sound, composition and perception in her works. For her art, Ayumi draws on materials such as paper and textiles and also uses sewing techniques, performances and installations to realise her ideas. When we visited her with Ephra, she was currently working at Gropius Bau.
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Project: Ephra unterwegs
Photo: Debora Mittelstaedt
Ayumi Paul
In her art, the painter Lilla von Puttkamer focuses on the human being in different dimensions: as an individual or group animal, as a representational figure or also as an abstract moment. In her works, the figures often appear in a neutral space, they seem to float, dance or as if they are shrouded in delicate veils of colour. During our visit to her studio, she talks about how much she enjoys to work with other people.
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Project: Ephra unterwegs
Lilla von Puttkamer
wants to create living things with his art. People who look at his art should be able to enjoy it and participate in something. In 2019, for example, he worked with researchers in Australia to collect 300 tons of organic and inorganic (i.e. living and dead) material and bring it to a museum.
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Projects: Ephra at home, Berlin Art Week
Photo: Ephra
Asad Raza
kate-hers RHEE was born in South Korea, grew up in the US and now lives in Berlin. The challenges of learning different languages, code-switching and the diversity of cultural traditions influenced her life and thus also her artistic work. In performances, installations, drawings and participatory events, the artist explores themes such as homeland and kinship. She also is an enthusiastic collector.
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Project: Ephra unterwegs
Kate-hers RHEE
has already gained experiences in music, theatre, mask work and architecture and incorporates this into her art, which moves between watercolour paintings, video installations, performances and mixed reality works. For her experimental approach, Ana conducts scientific research and behavioural studies.
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Project: Ephra unterwegs
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Ana Prvački
Quadrature is an artist duo from Berlin. In their artistic work, Sebastian Neitsch and Juliane Götz are interested in exploring our world and the cosmos around us. For that, they use data and physical experiments. Quadrature then translates the findings into performances, installations but also classical sculptural and two-dimensional work. Sebastian talks about the close connection between art and science during our visit to his studio.
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Project: Ephra unterwegs
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Quadrature
Haleh Redjaian's diverse oeuvre ranges from drawings and textiles to wall and spatial installations. Her abstract works and complex systems of order result from lines and forms with which she continuously develops new structures, geometries and compositions. Her works radiate a fine poetry that opens up wide spaces of wondering.
Photo: Franziska Rieder
Haleh Redjaian
often incorporates existing situations into her art and addresses their historical and institutional background. Karin develops site-specific interventions in which she intervenes in structures, changes them and invites to participate. Karin rethinks what seems familiar to us and in this way stimulates processes of exploration.
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Project: Ephra unterwegs
Photo: Jens Ziehe
Karin Sander
For his installations Tomás Saraceno works with engineers, architects and biologists, in which he combines geometric forms and simple building material. He sees his work as a response to global issues such as the increasing uninhabitability of the earth and the population growth. In order to be able to work on projects with as many people as possible, Tomás has rented an entire house as a studio.
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Project: Ephra unterwegs
Tomás Saraceno
originally studied design and then worked as an illustrator for a long time. Now she paints mostly abstract pictures on fabric. The focus is on human encounters. We tried out her colours on fabric ourselves during our visit to the studio.
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Project: Ephra unterwegs
Nadine Schemmann
Layers of colour make Julia Rüther's artworks shine. Abstract shapes make the paintings appear different to each viewer. As the head of the painting workshop at the Berlin University of the Arts, she let us take a look behind the scenes and explained how colours can be made from food.
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Project: Ephra unterwegs
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Julia Rüther
Yorgos Sapountzis was born in Athens and now works in Berlin as a visual artist, stage and costume designer. In his work, Yorgos deals with both public and private space. The starting point for his multimedia works are often monuments and everyday images. From these, mainly sculptural installations emerge, made from materials such as aluminium, colourful fabric, pens, ribbons and adhesive tape. We also talk about the importance of monuments during our visit to his studio.
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Project: Ephra unterwegs
Yorgos Sapountzis
refers in his artworks back on classic pictorial themes – such as self-portraits, landscape paintings or hunting scenes. In addition to his paintings, Erik also works on overlays of film, painting and photography. During the visit at his studio we get to know Erik's exploding palms.
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Project: Ephra unterwegs
Photo: Thorsten Wulff
Erik Schmidt
Martina Schumacher
Martina Schumacher's work can be described as extended painting. Wall works made of freely hanging coloured sequins, large-format sequin paintings, architectural sculptures made of shiny beads, glass constructions - all these come together in her artworks. Martina captures the glamour of existence in an unusually poetic way.
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Project: Ephra unterwegs
works with photography, film and video. Her works revolve around traditional concepts of gender, culture and normality. What is the individual's relationship to their own body? What is hidden? What is revealed? Boxers, drag queens, women in traditional Islamic dress: in Pola Sieverding's photographs, life becomes visible in a condensed form - powerful and clear.
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Project: Kick Off Cranach
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Pola Sieverding
is a group of activists whose work is primarily concerned with Eurasia. Their practice includes exhibitions, books and lecture-performances. They offer a residency and mentorship program for young professionals from their region.
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Project: Berlin Art Week
Slavs and Tatars
makes stories of people visible in her art that were and are not told due to gender, skin color or origin. Her own body also plays an important role in her video works, performances and installations. She is particularly interested in extracting more knowledge from her body.
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Projects: Ephra at home, Berlin Art Week
Photo: Ephra
Lerato Shadi
creates entire fantasy landscapes from a bird's eye view with the help of many fine strokes of oil paint. During our visit to her studio, Zuzanna tells us that as a trained cartographer, she can translate heights and depths into other dimensions, making the dotted structures look like flocks of birds, oceans and skins.
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Project: Ephra unterwegs
Photo: Maria Schoenig
Zuzanna Skiba
is a project by Eloïse Bonneviot and Anne de Boer. The project includes a permanently installed mushroom garden, which is located on a balcony in Berlin since 2019. The artists also travel around and spread their mycelium. With their work, Eloïse and Anne follow the idea of permaculture. They want to create stable systems for humans, animals and plants.
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Project: Ephra unterwegs
The Mycological Twist
lives between Iceland and Berlin. In her art, she is primarily concerned with natural materials and their behavior in relation to their surroundings. Her works move between installations, photography, drawing and film and thus depict the relationships between the various elements. Anna enjoys working with scientists who study the earth and then makes the findings visible in her art.
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Project: Berlin Art Week
Anna Rún Tryggvadottir
uses his sculptures and objects to investigate the nature of the world, always questioning the investigative gaze. Whether the artist is moulding landscapes in urban space with polyester, finding artefacts on construction sites or planting technical growths in the corners of rooms, he is always concerned with constructs of reality and our relationship to it.
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Project: Ephra unterwegs
Philip Topolovac
is fascinated by everyday objects and places that have a story to tell. He prefers to reproduce his impressions in installations, sculptures and wall pieces, which often can be found in public spaces. Some of them are movable, others produce sound. Some of them are tiny, others take up the whole room. We can admire some of these during our studio visit with Ephra on the road.
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Project: Ephra unterwegs
Ulrich Vogl
As a photographer, Michael Wesely is particularly interested in the method of time exposure, which he deliberately expands and manipulates in his works. Michael uses the blurring that occurs when a subject moves during the exposure time to capture the temporality of itself. We learn more about this technique during our visit to the Max Liebermann Haus.
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Project: Ephra unterwegs
Michael Wesely
studies sculpture at the art academy in Berlin. He enjoys experimenting with 3D printers, painting patterns on public spaces with soil, cooking Vietnamese noodle soup or making chocolate with children and hanging artworks in streetcars with them.
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Projects: Ephra at home, Berlin Art Week
Photo: Ephra
Giang Quang Vinh
is a researcher. Her works transition between drawing, installation and performance. In her works, she sets visible and invisible traces that she picks up, follows and extends. This is how she creates works, some of which are large-format, in which the physical body and its extension always play a central role. With Ephra unterwegs, we were allowed to visit her in her studio.
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Nicole Wendel
graduated from the HdK Berlin with Wolfgang Petrick. His hyperrealistic paintings are strongly reduced, clear and simple. In terms of motifs, he has been working with individual, mostly man-made objects or portraits for a long time. During the visit to his studio, the children could hardly stop marvelling: How can it be that someone can paint so precisely?
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Project: Ephra unterwegs
Photo: Nicole Wendel
René Wirths
Markus Wüste
works with sculpture and installation. His first experience with stone sculpture was in a workshop with Yoshimi Hashimoto. He has consistently focused on and experimented with working with stone, exploring movement, kinetics, process and modern materials with expressive material transposition. Despite the heaviness of the material, works always exude a wonderfully light humour.
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Project: Ephra unterwegs
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works with layers, structures and colour accents in his sensual, abstract paintings. In this way, he creates works that almost resemble music in their beauty. When painting, Filip always refers to experienced moments, which for him are the entry point for empathies and statements.
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Project: Ephra unterwegs
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Filip Zorzor
The zeitgeist of his own generation plays a major role in Malte Zenses' sculptures and paintings. His inspiration often starts with a memory, a place or a snapshot. In the artistic realisation, Malte uses his self-developed series of abstract codes, which includes personal symbols, signs, poems and lyrics. During our visit to his studio, we create demo signs on topics that move us or make us angry.
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Project: Ephra unterwegs
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