Painting

Marianne Thoermer

by Eva Szwarc // Sept. 15, 2023
Marianne Thoermer’s studio has the two key ingredients of light and space. The street outside is peppered with trees—from one sounds the high-pitched call of a redstart and its mate…[read on]

Via Lewandowsky

by Dagmara Genda // Sept. 5, 2023
The defining feature of Via Lewandowsky’s practice is not a material or a theme but an attitude—a nearly palpable, restless curiosity. It is also what makes his work so difficult to pin down…[read on]

Monika Grabuschnigg

by Annalisa Giacinti // June 13, 2023
When I arrive at her studio, on a very warm and sunny afternoon in May, I’m five minutes too early, Monika Grabuschnigg points out jokingly…[read on]

Merike Estna

A winab standing in front of a painting
by Dagmara Genda // Nov. 1, 2022
Merike Estna warns me that her studio will be empty as she tours me through to her recent survey, ‘Soil will not contain our love’ (2022), at Kai Art Center, a first floor exhibition space…[read on]

Michelle Jezierski

Portrait of Michelle Jezierski in her artist studio photographed by Martin Müller
by Kimberly Bradley // Oct. 4, 2022
In a recent visit to Michelle Jezierski’s studio, writer Kimberly Bradley talked to her about the process of painting and more specifically, the genre of landscape painting. In Jezierski’s…[read on]

Elif Saydam

Artist Elif Saydam sits on their red couch in their studio
by Nina Prader // July 8, 2022
The sign above the studio entrance reads “Video Inn,” written in all caps and now coloured by an 80s patina. There, we meet painter Elif Saydam, sitting on the steps of the former video…[read on]

Peles Empire

two artists stand in their studio space, next to shelves full of materials, both dressed in black
by Aoife Donnellan // Apr. 6, 2021
Peles Empire’s work thrives off the dialogue between place, historical interpretation, and materiality. The pair—Barbara Wolff and Katharina Stöver—are an artist group…[read on]

Rafaella Braga

Rafaella braga is rolling on her canvas
by Intissare Aamri // Dec. 18, 2020
On a cloudy December day, I arrive at Rafaella Braga’s studio, located in a quiet street in Treptow. The walls of Braga’s space are brimming with large-scale canvases,…[read on]

Jonas Burgert

berlinartlink Studio Visit: Jonas Burgert
by Mary Alexander // Sept. 4, 2019
Although Jonas Burgert’s work is not firmly identified with a particular culture or time, the genesis of his painted stages, the creation of his enigmatic figures…[read on]

Tschabalala Self

by Jack Radley // July 23, 2018
Layers of painted brick unfurl along the façade of the industrial building that houses Tschabalala Self’s studio in New Haven, Connecticut. Inside, the…[read on]

Hulda Rós Guðnadóttir

by MONA // June 8, 2018
For Hulda Rós Guðnadóttir the world is a community of people, including their surroundings and movements through time and space. She observes the patterns of…[read on]

Eva & Adele

by Michelle Standley // Apr. 27, 2018
The future arrived in a taxi. ‘Eva & Adele.’ Always written with the ampersand uniting the two names. Ambassadors from another world, the self-declared…[read on]