Studio Visits

Anna Ehrenstein

A woman in a bandana sitting on the floor leaning against an exercise ball
by Aoife Donnellan // Sept. 14, 2022
Anna Ehrenstein leads us up a few flights of stairs to her Lichtenberg studio where we enter a large room with windows overlooking a particularly grey industrial corner of Berlin…[read on]

Monira Al Qadiri

Monira Al Qadiri posing in front of a wall with iridescent plastic wall works hanging on it
by Dagmara Genda // Aug. 9, 2022
Monira Al Qadiri was seven years old during the Gulf War when Iraq, in 1990, annexed Kuwait in just two days. The US-led response resulted in a military conflict that lasted into…[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]

Ilit Azoulay

Artist Ilit Azoulay sitting on a small step ladder in her studio
by Noushin Afzali // June 7, 2022
Ilit Azoulay’s well-lit studio space is a welcome contrast to the bleak Berlin sky outside. Upon entering the space, we hear the recording of a warm, powerful female voice singing…[read on]

Vanessa Brown

Artist Vanessa Brown stands laughing in a white studio with tin foil sculptures hanging from the ceiling
by Nadia Egan // May 9, 2022
It’s a warm Spring afternoon as Vanessa Brown greets us in the courtyard of her Kreuzberg studio. Tucked away from the hustle and bustle of the main street, this little nook feels like a…[read on]

Elizabeth Jaeger

by Dagmara Genda // Mar. 18, 2022
Six blackened steel structures lean against the wall of Elizabeth Jaeger’s industrial studio space, where she has been making new work for the last two months as part of Callie’s residency…[read on]

Aleksandra Domanović

by Alice Connolly O’Brien // Nov. 5, 2021
Aleksandra Domanović’s recent commission by Audemars Piguet Contemporary, ‘Becoming Another,’ gave us the perfect excuse to meet with her in her Kreuzberg studio…[read on]

Rosa Barba

by Noushin Afzali // Aug. 20, 2021
After six years of renovation, the Neue Nationalgalerie will reopen its doors to the public on August 22nd. Berlin-based artist Rosa Barba has received the honour of its…[read on]

Petja Ivanova

by Noushin Afzali // July 13, 2021
The Berlin-based Bulgarian artist welcomed us warmly in her small studio in Kreuzberg and took us through a journey of her artistic career, filled with insects, “feelables”…[read on]

Isabel Lewis

by Dagmara Genda // June 29, 2021
Lewis is the first of a number of artists participating in a residency at Callie’s, a new self-guided program that was opened just before the pandemic closed most…[read on]

Jakob Kudsk Steensen

by Johanna Hardt // June 1, 2021
Kudsk Steensen’s environmental storytelling moves beyond the story templates of tragedy and melancholia for a lost world. His vision and language are affirmative…[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]