PROLOGUE | PERSONAL Hamlet, where are you from, where were you born and when? I was born in Havana, Cuba. How and where do you currently live and work? I am now working and living at the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien with an artistic grant until October. Which writers do you currently find exciting and which books are on your bookshelf? Here […]
read morePROLOGUE | PERSONAL Mr. Miller, where are you from, where were you born and when? I was born in 1961 in Upper Swabian Altshausen. Where do you currently live and work? We commute between Berlin and Pistoia/Italy. What stations and people have influenced you? Long working stays in Chicago, New York, Sydney and Paris. Which writers do you currently find exciting […]
read morePROLOGUE | PERSONAL Gwen, where do we meet you? Probably in motion, comparing paintings while walking back and forth between my small and large studio. It’s on the top floor with north facing windows, overlooking Manhattan and Brooklyn. There will be a few paintings on the walls of each room, with many more facing the wall […]
read morePROLOGUE | PERSONAL Omar, we do meet? We are at the Luisa Catucci Gallery, in the Schillerkiez-Neukölln Berlin. It’s an amazing contemporary art gallery, and I’m glad to show my artworks in this space, and in this wonderful city. Where do you come from, where were you born when? How and where do you currently live […]
read morePROLOGUE | PERSONAL (Interview in German language) Herr Schels, wo treffen wir Sie? Eine Fabriketage in Hamburg-Eimsbüttel, kreatives Chaos mit analoger Dunkelkammer. Woher kommen Sie, wo sind Sie wann geboren? Geboren bin ich 1936 in Landshut, als jüngstes von sechs Geschwistern. Wo leben und arbeiten Sie derzeit? Siehe oben. Welche Stationen und Menschen haben Sie geprägt? Kommt […]
read morePROLOGUE | PERSONAL René, where do we meet? We meet in Kiel, on the western edge of the town, in my house. Surrounded by family houses and greenery. Behind the house is a large garden, behind that a small wood. If you look out of the window, you only see green, also because there is a […]
read morePROLOGUE | PERSONAL (Interview in German language) Frau Bach, wo treffen wir Sie? Wir treffen uns in meinem Atelier, Fabriketage. Vielleicht sitzen wir an Ihrem Lieblingsplatz? Wir sitzen am Tisch. Woher kommen Sie, wo sind Sie wann geboren? Aus Neuenhain im Taunus. Geboren bin ich am 22. Juni 1951. Wo leben und arbeiten Sie derzeit? Ich lebe in Berlin-Charlottenburg und arbeite […]
read morePROLOGUE | PERSONAL Mrs. Musolf, where do we talk? In my studio. It is a beautiful, big and very bright room with ceilings 5 meters high. It’s situated in the 3rd floor of a school building of the former German Democratic Republic (in German: DDR, in English: GDR) in Berlin, in between the triangle of the […]
read morePROLOGUE | PERSONAL Paula, where do we talk? We would probably meet in my studio, which is located in Leblon, a district near Ipanema, in Rio de Janeiro. My studio is in a small residential building where only artists live, and it is always wonderful to be there. The environment is great. My place is […]
read morePrologue | Erik, imagine if the pandemic did not dominate our lives at the moment and we could meet in your home or in your studio. Where do we talk together? Maybe we are sitting at your favorite place? I don’t really have a “favorite” place. Most of my time is spent either at the studio or […]
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