
Drawing different lines with Christian Diaz Orejarena
Today we visit Christian Diaz Orejarena in his studio in Britz. For a moment we are not sure where the right entrance is, but a friendly man's voice guides us to our destination - and there, on the landing, is Christian, greeting us warmly. He shows us his studio and explains that other artists are working in the other rooms. Today, however, we have the former flat and the sunny terrace to ourselves!

Paula Anke and her shadow amazons
It is a freezing cold day when we visit Paula Anke in her studio at Camaro Haus on Potsdamer Straße. Although the street is very busy, you hardly notice the hustle and bustle in the hidden backyard with its small park and fountain. In the courtyard we discover a large painting directly on the wall of the building.

Reaching one million with Uli Aigner
Uli Aigner welcomes us warmly to her bright, homely and spacious flat in Wilmersdorf, where her studio is located. (Children apparently live here too, because we discover a trampoline and knee pads from inline skating lying on the radiator).

Always on the move with Ilya Barrett
Today we are back in the Ephra Studio and have a visitor. Which exciting person do you think we'll meet today? In walks the animator, illustrator and videographer Ilya Barrett. His mum is – just like most of us – from Ukraine.

Sarah Illenberger and the new perspective on ordinary things
Before we even meet Sarah Illenberger, she has a small request for us: collect different leaves and bring them to my studio. Of course we are happy to do that and, despite the trees already being sparse, we find whole bunches of leaves. I wonder what we’ll need them for?

Stella Meris paints the body in the head
Today we expect again a great visitor in the Ephra Studio – Stella Meris. The painter and multimedia artist will show us what they do. And Stella has brought a lot with them.

Learning from mushrooms and nature with The Mycological Twist
Today we are warmly welcomed by Eloïse Bonneviot and Anne de Boer in their studio in Tempelhof. They are both artists and together they call themselves The Mycological Twist!
Caring, repairing and healing together
A 5th grade class from Glasbrenner Elementary School takes part in an Ephra workshop at the Gropius Bau. The students experience the concepts of care, healing and repair with all their senses.

Immerse yourself in (moving) image worlds with Bilge Emir
Today is a very special day at "Ephra on the road" – a real premiere – because for the first time an artist is a guest at Ephra's and not the other way around. This is because Bilge Emir's studio is so small that we wouldn't all have fit in, but we still really want to get to know the artist and her work better.

At the shaper and molder Quirin Bäumler
Quirin knows a lot about giving and taking shape, and for the past 2 years he has been running the bbk's workshop for shape, plaster, plastic, 3D scanning [...] What a stroke of luck that the workshops are a stone's throw away from the Uferhallen and Quirin is taking us along.

How Malte Zenses understands the world through art
Malte shares the bright rooms with artist friends. If you let your gaze wander through the two large studio rooms, you immediately recognize that very different people are working here, because every corner of the room looks different: tidy, somewhat chaotic, with pictures on the wall or (construction) material in the room.

Landscape flights with Zuzanna Skiba
Zuzanna Skiba’s studio is located in the north of Berlin in a former police station – with long corridors and an eerily heavy entrance door. What strikes us immediately is that there’s a very special smell in the air. What could that be?

A visit with sound researcher Albrecht Fersch
Albrecht Fersch’s studio is located in a quiet side street in Wedding. Actually, it is not only his studio, but he shares it with the painter Lilla von Puttkamer. In order for the two to have a bit of peace from each other, they had a curtain hanging in the middle of the room for a short time. But the idea didn’t work out – and we're not at all surprised – because Albrecht often works with sounds and sometimes makes quite a racket.

In the fabric realm of Claudia Hill
Many threads come together at Claudia Hill: She does performance art, costume and set design, experimental film, visual art. And above all, she works with fabric. You can see that in her studio, too, because there are beautiful, special textiles to be discovered everywhere.

On the trail of Ilit Azoulay
Ilit Azoulay comes from Israel and she studied photography. In her studio in Schöneberg, she assembles collages - mainly on the computer - from thousands and thousands of photos, like a mosaic. Sometimes it takes years, that's how elaborate it is. Sometimes Ilit also integrates sound into the collages.

Jay Gard, the color collector
Jay Gard's studio is equipped like a well-run hardware store. Sometimes larger, sometimes smaller sculptures are created here. He often builds colorful circles of paint, but sometimes he also paints pictures ... or looks at art books - in search of inspiration.

That’s how nice it was at the Kusama Kids Studio!
You didn't make it to the Kusama Kids Studio at the Gropius Bau - or you want to relive the wonderful memories of your visit? Here are a few photos by Mathias Völzke and a follow-up report by Ilka Lorenzen on Ephra's program on the occasion of the Kusama retrospective.