The everyday magic of Karin Sander
No sooner have we entered Karin Sander's large and bright studio in Moabit than a child’s voice rings through the room: "We’re with a crate artist!" And the voice is not entirely wrong, because the studio is filled with wooden transport crates.
Silvia Noronha’s Stones of the Future
Silvia’s studio room looks like a mixture of treasure chamber and laboratory: stones in different colours and shapes sparkle everywhere. Glass that appears to be liquid and then solidifies again stretches across the table past glass vials filled with mysterious sand.
Ana Prvački, the queen bee
Ana Prvački welcomes us beaming in her small (but fine) studio. She only speaks English, but some of us already know it very well and it's fun to try out the language outside the classroom, in the real world.
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.
Ahu Dural and the art of memory
At Engelbecken in Kreuzberg, Ahu Dural warmly welcomes us to her studio - or rather, to her apartment, where she lives with her husband and five-year-old son. Her study is located between the hallway and the kitchen, and the longest wall of the narrow room consists of a huge "jumble shelf" with thousands of books.
Color fish and exploding palms by Erik Schmidt
When we enter Erik Schmidt’s studio, the first thing that catches our eye are blobs of color: oil paint. But blobs of color is not the right word. The blobs of oil paint are as thick as fish bodies: green, pink-white, purple. Color fish?
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.
Diving into non-human worlds with Anne Duk Hee Jordan
Duk Hee welcomes us in the imposing entrance hall of the Gropius Bau and leads us past thick marble columns and iron railings through part of the group exhibition YOYI! The final stop is a darkened room in which a cave-like structure made of fabric has been built. It envelops us directly and makes us marvel.
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.
On the artist paths of Christian Jankowski
The studio of Christian Jankowski is located in the east of Berlin on the Spree, between many other studios. It’s all white on the inside, rather narrow, but very high. There are three floors and a lot of windows – not only on the wall (facing the Spree), but also on the ceiling (facing the sky). On the second floor there is even a window in the floor, through which we can look at the desks of Christian’s assistants on the first floor.
With Quadrature into the universe and back
The studio of the artist duo Quadrature (Sebastian Neitsch and Juliane Götz) is located in Kreuzberg, very close to the Museum of Technology. We quickly find out why this fits so well during our conversation. But first Sebastian shows us the room where he works with Juliane (who is unfortunately sick today). The two have a child and have been making art together for a very long time – partly because they complement each other so well.
Ethan Hayes-Chute’s dreams of wood
Hayes-Chute’s studio is located on Karl-Marx-Strasse in Neukölln, between a construction site and a playground – and even from the inside it looks a bit like a mixture of construction site and playground: the walls are lined with shelves crammed with a wide variety of materials, books, machines and tools.
Yorgos Sapountzis and the city as a stage
Somewhere in Lichtenberg, between the famous Dong Xuang Center and other industrial areas, is the studio of Yorgos Sapountzis. And that's what we're looking for! However, it is so well hidden that we find Yorgos waiting for us only on the second try. He welcomes us in the courtyard and accompanies us through the building, across a small roof terrace and into his wonderfully hidden studio. Here, countless models, printed fabrics, metal rods, figures and many small curiosities gather - and we also find a comfortable place in a sofa corner.
Christina Krys Huber, the shape-shifter
For once, we visit Christina Krys Huber not in their studio, but in their solo exhibition “Darling You Should Feel Lucky” at Display – an exhibition space in Schöneberg, where they are currently showing their work. Some of the luminous paintings hang near the wall and others in the middle of the room, on heavy chains. They are large (certainly larger than us) and look mysterious. At first glance, what strikes us most are the bright colors and flowing shapes.
Michael Wesely’s Images of Time
Today we are in a very special place in the middle of Berlin - right next to the Brandenburg Gate. Here, in the Max Liebermann Haus, Michael Wesely just has a big exhibition with hundreds of pictures and even his own photo studio!
Nadine Schemmann’s color feelings
Nadine Schemmann's studio is quiet in a very special way. This is certainly due to her soft voice and alert, thoughtful gaze, but also to the room itself. On the wall hang a few fabrics, on which flowing colors and shapes can be seen.
Ulrich Vogl's “Cognition-Gain Catalysts”
Ulrich Vogl's studio is located in a large old building in which many artists work - we can see this from the large wall in the stairwell, which is filled with different mailboxes. Ulrich welcomes us with a very broad and friendly smile. He invites us in and admits that he is a bit excited and spent four hours cleaning up before we came.
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?
In the reality factory of Lilla von Puttkamer
Lilla von Puttkamer’s studio is a real treasure chest: The floor glows with splashes of color; the walls are full of pictures; there are homemade machines that make sounds; a two-dimensional chandelier made of wood hangs from the ceiling and we discover all kinds of household objects, paints, paintbrushes as well as telephones and other everyday objects made of clay.
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.