To find out artist Irene Fernández Arcas’ favourite colour, we don't even have to enter her studio: When she greets us in the hallway of a huge former factory building in Tempelhof, she is almost as radiant as the azure blue she is dressed in from head to toe.

When we arrive at Dafna Maimon’s spacious studio, she makes room for us with a big smile and nimble movements among the peculiar creatures that populate the room.

"Where we are standing right now, camels often used to stand." That's what artist Karin Kerkmann says when she warmly welcomes us to the courtyard of the Atelierhaus in Alt-Treptow, which includes her studio. When a circus was in town, it was allowed to camp here (where once there was a meadow) and let the camels graze.

No sooner have we entered Karin Sander's large and bright studio in Moabit than a child’s voice rings through the room: "We’re with a crate artist!" And the voice is not entirely wrong, because the studio is filled with wooden transport crates.

Silvia’s studio room looks like a mixture of treasure chamber and laboratory: stones in different colours and shapes sparkle everywhere. Glass that appears to be liquid and then solidifies again stretches across the table past glass vials filled with mysterious sand.

Ana Prvački welcomes us beaming in her small (but fine) studio. She only speaks English, but some of us already know it very well and it's fun to try out the language outside the classroom, in the real world.

At Engelbecken in Kreuzberg, Ahu Dural warmly welcomes us to her studio - or rather, to her apartment, where she lives with her husband and five-year-old son. Her study is located between the hallway and the kitchen, and the longest wall of the narrow room consists of a huge "jumble shelf" with thousands of books.

Duk Hee welcomes us in the imposing entrance hall of the Gropius Bau and leads us past thick marble columns and iron railings through part of the group exhibition YOYI! The final stop is a darkened room in which a cave-like structure made of fabric has been built. It envelops us directly and makes us marvel.

The studio of Christian Jankowski is located in the east of Berlin on the Spree, between many other studios. It’s all white on the inside, rather narrow, but very high. There are three floors and a lot of windows – not only on the wall (facing the Spree), but also on the ceiling (facing the sky). On the second floor there is even a window in the floor, through which we can look at the desks of Christian’s assistants on the first floor.

The studio of the artist duo Quadrature (Sebastian Neitsch and Juliane Götz) is located in Kreuzberg, very close to the Museum of Technology. We quickly find out why this fits so well during our conversation. But first Sebastian shows us the room where he works with Juliane (who is unfortunately sick today). The two have a child and have been making art together for a very long time – partly because they complement each other so well.

Hayes-Chute’s studio is located on Karl-Marx-Strasse in Neukölln, between a construction site and a playground – and even from the inside it looks a bit like a mixture of construction site and playground: the walls are lined with shelves crammed with a wide variety of materials, books, machines and tools.

For once, we visit Christina Krys Huber not in their studio, but in their solo exhibition “Darling You Should Feel Lucky” at Display – an exhibition space in Schöneberg, where they are currently showing their work. Some of the luminous paintings hang near the wall and others in the middle of the room, on heavy chains. They are large (certainly larger than us) and look mysterious. At first glance, what strikes us most are the bright colors and flowing shapes.

Today we are in a very special place in the middle of Berlin - right next to the Brandenburg Gate. Here, in the Max Liebermann Haus, Michael Wesely just has a big exhibition with hundreds of pictures and even his own photo studio!

Nadine Schemmann's studio is quiet in a very special way. This is certainly due to her soft voice and alert, thoughtful gaze, but also to the room itself. On the wall hang a few fabrics, on which flowing colors and shapes can be seen.

Ulrich Vogl's studio is located in a large old building in which many artists work - we can see this from the large wall in the stairwell, which is filled with different mailboxes. Ulrich welcomes us with a very broad and friendly smile. He invites us in and admits that he is a bit excited and spent four hours cleaning up before we came.

Lilla von Puttkamer’s studio is a real treasure chest: The floor glows with splashes of color; the walls are full of pictures; there are homemade machines that make sounds; a two-dimensional chandelier made of wood hangs from the ceiling and we discover all kinds of household objects, paints, paintbrushes as well as telephones and other everyday objects made of clay.

In Lena von Goedeke’s studio, it’s only when we take a second look that we realize: nothing here is what it seems! We discover a life jacket made of concrete, blocks of ice made of glass and feet made of plaster. Sometimes it gets even more confusing, for example, there is an arm made of plaster that Lena has painted with pencil so that it looks like metal. Some of the objects are funny, others a bit scary.

Wie-yi T. Lauw’s studio is located in bustling Neukölln, between playgrounds, bars and workshops – and somehow the city lives on in her studio. Various masks and statues are scattered around the room, for example small Buddhas that Wie-yi bought in a Vietnamese supermarket, and even a real motorcycle stands in the corner!