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.

Uli Aigner

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

Paula Anke

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

Irene Fernandez Arcas

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

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

Portrait of the artist Said Baalbaki in front of his painting. — Said Baalbaki

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

Portrait of artist Jessica Backhaus. Background is blue. — 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

Ilya Barrett

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

Quirin Bäumler

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

Portrait of artist Sabine Beyerle. — Sabine Beyerle

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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Project: Ephra unterwegs
Photo: David Reuter

Thomas Demand

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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Project: Ephra unterwegs

Christian Diaz

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

the artist Ahu Dural — Ahu Dural

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

Bilge Emir

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

Portrait of artist Özgür Erkök Moroder. — Özgür Erkök
Moroder

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

Albrecht Fersch

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

Black and white portrait of artist Jay Gard.

Stella Geppert

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

Portrait of artist Wolfgang Georgsdorf. — Wolfgang Georgsdorf

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

Black and white portrait of artist Lena von Goedeke. — Lena von Goedeke

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

The artist Ethan Hayes-Chute — Ethan Hayes-Chute

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

Jeppe Hein

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

Black and white portrait of artist Christina Huber. — Christina Huber
Christina Huber’s artistic works consisting of paintings, digital videos and performative actions explore 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

Portrait of the artist Sarah Illenberger — Sarah Illenberger

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

Christian Jankoswki

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

Portrait of artist Michelle Jezierski in front of her painting. — Michelle Jezierski
The works of the painter Michelle Jezierski 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.

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Anne Duk Hee Jordan

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

Nadia Kaabi-Linke

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

Portrait of artist Ali Kaaf. — Ali Kaaf

Paper works, glass works, video art, installations and photographic works - in his multifaceted oeuvre, Ali Kaaf 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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Project: Ephra unterwegs
Photo: Stefanie Loos

Photographer Gerhard Kassner stands with singer Ed Sheeran in his studio. Gerhard Kassner holds a large picture of Ed Sheeran in his hands. — Gerhard Kassner

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

Portrait of artist Ruprecht von Kaufmann. — Ruprecht von Kaufmann

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

Karin Kerkmann

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

Black and white portrait of artist Wie-yi T. Lauw. — Wie-yi T. Lauw

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

Christopher Lehmpfuhl

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

Helge Leiberg

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

Dafna Maimon

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

Portrait of the artist Stella Meris — Stella Meris

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

Portrait of the artist Silvia Noronha — Silvia Noronha

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

Ayumi Paul

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

Portrait of film director and writer for the LGBTQIA+ movement, Rosa von Praunheim. — Rosa von Praunheim

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

Ana Prvački

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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Lilla von Puttkamer

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

Quadrature

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
Photo: private

Portrait of artist Haleh Redjaian. — Haleh Redjaian

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.
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Photo: Franziska Rieder

Kate-hers RHEE

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

Portrait of artist Julia Rüther in her studio. — Julia Rüther

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
Photo: private

Karin Sander

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

Yorgos Sapountzis

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

Tomás Saraceno

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

Nadine Schemmann

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

Portrait of the artist Erik Schmidt — Erik Schmidt

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

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