On a recent early autumn morning, still sunny yet deceivingly warm, I walked to Eli Cortiñas’ studio in Neukölln. As I reached her floor, she welcomed me with a beaming smile…[read on]
Paul Kolling is a Berlin-based artist and a founding member of terra0. His solo work delves into the social and spatial politics of infrastructure, offering new perspectives and interpretations…[read on]
Throughout her work, artist and filmmaker Yalda Afsah explores the extent to which space can be cinematically constructed. This formal characteristic is conceptually mirrored…[read on]
Basma al-Sharif’s Berlin home exudes immediate warmth. Beyond the aesthetic of curated nostalgia—some of it personal while other items appear to be inherited…[read on]
“This is care in action!” exclaims Cibelle Cavalli Bastos, as they serve us steaming hot tea soon after we arrive at their studio in Köpenick, a lushly forested neighbourhood in…[read on]
It is late September. Antwi sits on his heels at the top of the marbled yoga mat that travels with him everywhere. His workspace is here, in the Prenzlauer Berg living room of an…[read on]
Su Yu Hsin’s studio feels like a haven of order and calm in this chaotic city. The space itself is bright and airy, with high ceilings and French windows opening onto the courtyard down below…[read on]
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]
Climbing the stairs to Anan Fries’ Kreuzberg flat, which also houses their studio, I lament the fact that these visits always seem to coincide with the few unbearably hot days that this…[read on]
Marianna Simnett seems to have an impressive array of light fixtures in her Siemensstadt studio; this makes sense, given that the space is based in a former light bulb factory, which is…[read on]
We head to the studio, which is a small bustling room tucked away at the end of her apartment’s hall. Its surfaces are covered in images, drawings, sketches. Flags and printed…[read on]
Fette Sans welcomes us into her Prenzlauer Berg studio on the first really hot day of the year. The glass-fronted, ground floor space, draped in sensual purple crocodile velvet, offers…[read on]
