Mary McFarlane

On my trip to New Zealand I visited artist Mary McFarlane in her studio on the hills, high above picturesque Dunedin, with its vibrant art scene. Her studio is located in a small industrial area with a rural view and a stream nearby. It is sunny and spacious with few visitors. McFarlane loves the nature, the easy going and amenable people.

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FUZI U.V.TPK – The Tattoo Vandal

FUZI U.V.TPK has a long Graffiti and Vandal history before he got introduced to tattooing by some of his friends. Since then he was fascinated about this long lasting art form and discovered it as a new way of protest for himself. He developed his own style which, from the outside, looks quite simple and naive.

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Klaus Lichtenegger

Klaus Lichtenegger is a designer, a sculptor, an artist, and most of all a craftsman. Originally from Austria he is now living and working in Tuscany ‘because it is beautiful’ as he states with his charming Austrian accent. Lichtenegger creates unique pieces out of leather, wood, metal and other carefully selected materials.

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Deenesh Ghyczy

For ‘Work in Progress’ we met painter Deenesh Ghyczy in his studio in Berlin. His father is from Hungary, which brought him an almost unpronounceable name at least for most german tongues. His mother is German. He always loved paiting, as he tells us, he went to the Art Academy in Amsterdam, lived in Budapest and Brussels before he came to Berlin.

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Jaybo Monk

At the beginning of the week we visited painter Jaybo Monk in his studio in Kreuzberg, Berlin. His little universe unfolds on the first floor of a narrow brick house in a Berlin backyard. When we enter his space, we find ourselves in a world filled with color, canvas, spray paint and plenty of other utensils.

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Superblast

We met Manuel Osterholt aka Superblast in his studio in Berlin, Mitte, right next to Alexanderplatz. Placed on a long panorama window stand his desk and his working table, where he produces most of his works. Eyes are starring at us from various pictures, patterns and colors domiate the canvases, in the corner is a shelf with spraycans in all colors.

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Nils Völker

Nils Völker is an artist and communication designer based in Berlin. If you listen to what he is doing, it’s not easy to assign him to a specific category. There’s a plethora of terms such as physical computing, robotics, media art, new media art or machine artist. A jumble of words, which all describe the things Nils deals with every day.

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Freulein Anna & Žiga Tomori

Since I’ve read or rather absorbed Anna’s ‘Letters to the Cowboy’ I am a huge fan of hers and was really looking forward meeting her and her roommate and illustrator Žiga Tomori. I was curious who would be the personalities behind the wonderful poetical words and the impulsive illustrations and had a really nice and laid-back afternoon with the two of them.

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Hans Kotter

I visit Hans Kotter in his studio in Charlottenburg, Berlin where he designs his light installations in a long, spacious room. In the first place Kotter started out as a painter but he realised quickly that he rather wanted to focus on spacial installations. In the beginning he used light as an expedient to photograph and document his works.

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Annette Herrmann

For Annette Hermann her life is nothing special but when she is telling me her story over a cup of coffee in the kitchen of her studio in Berlin, Kreuzberg, I am quiet impressed and I´d say her life is pretty much breaking out of column. To me her world sounds different, interesting and somewhat fascinating.

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