Studio Visits – Berlin Art Link

Julian Rosefeldt

Alison Hugill — Fri, 30 May 2025 07:05:25 +0000

Often working on location, Julian Rosefeldt calls himself a “lazy studio-goer” when he’s in Berlin. The space he shares, part of a larger Kreuzberg studio collectively used by fellow artists, is quite neatly divided in two. His half features tall shelves along one wall for storage and stacks of books, which he read as research for his film ‘Euphoria,’ organized beside his computer on a wide desk.

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Vaginal Davis

Alison Hugill — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 06:48:54 +0000

If you have been to Gropius Bau recently, you may have seen Vaginal Davis’s studio. Not directly, but the sheer curtains and ad hoc images strung across clothes lines in her new solo show are straight out of her studio’s interior design. The Los Angeles-born and raised Ms. Davis has been in Berlin for 20 years now, and her first comprehensive exhibition in Germany marks the occasion.

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Flo Kasearu

Alison Hugill — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 11:10:10 +0000

When I arrive at the Flo Kasearu House Museum—a place that is equal parts home, studio, institution and conceptual (as well as literal) playground—Flo Kasearu herself is perched atop a tall lifeguard chair in the backyard, striking an authoritative pose for the photographer. There’s a crown installed on the yard gate, which aligns with the top of her head in the photo frame. The gesture is neither…

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Emilia Tikka

Alison Hugill — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 08:40:26 +0000

Winter comes twice a year in Berlin. Without fail, a deceivingly spring-like week hits around March, followed by another bout of winter. I met Emilia Tikka in her Kreuzberg studio during the small window of spring sun. Originally from Finland, Tikka has been in Berlin, and this studio, since 2011. As a transdisciplinary artist, designer and researcher, her expansive practice requires an equally…

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Isaac Chong Wai

Alison Hugill — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 13:44:17 +0000

Isaac Chong Wai is a Hong Kong and Berlin-based artist who works primarily with glass etching, drawing, photography, video and performance. Looking at humans on the individual and collective scale, he examines the vulnerability of the body and the inherent violence within social systems and historical traumas, imagining alternative microcosms of human relationality. Speaking to us in his studio…

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Eli Cortiñas

Alison Hugill — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 08:54:49 +0000

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, while funky music played from the end of the hall, and threads of sunlight inundated the kitchen inside. At her place, it seemed, summer was still around. In her office, I took a seat on a yellow couch while she sat at her…

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Sarah Ancelle Schönfeld

Alison Hugill — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 07:16:25 +0000

Sarah Ancelle Schönfeld is not a photographer. The kaleidoscopic series of prints that comprise her project ‘Labor Lab,’ an upcoming solo exhibition at the Schering Stiftung’s project space, involve the camera only in a marginal sense. Presented as matte enlarged c-prints, the images are instead created through the application of solvents—hormones, breast milk, the morning after pill—to pre…

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Monica Bonvicini

Alison Hugill — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 09:11:44 +0000

This article is part of our feature topic Desire. About six months ago, Monica Bonvicini had to leave her place at the Uferhallen complex in Wedding and relocate to a new studio. For the first time in 15 years, she had to reimagine how to feel in a new space, figure out where and how she could work all over again. The new studio, which sits on the fourth floor of a courtyard building in…

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Dylan Solomon Kraus

Alison Hugill — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 09:43:24 +0000

Dylan Solomon Kraus has recently changed studios. Tucked away in a busy, industrial building, near where Charlottenburg meets the Westhafenkanal, he invites me up to his new space and cautions that he doesn’t have much to show at the moment. Numerous paintings in progress line the walls of his studio. Compared to when I visited last year, many of these are smaller works, roughly about the scale of…

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Paul Kolling

Adela Lovric — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 08:00:59 +0000

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 of the visual field while raising questions about the nature of mediated perception. Often fusing analog and digital technologies, he works across film, video, installation and sculpture to explore how…

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Yalda Afsah

Adela Lovric — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 13:35:47 +0000

Throughout her work, artist and filmmaker Yalda Afsah explores the extent to which space can be cinematically constructed. This formal characteristic is conceptually mirrored in her documentary portraits of human-animal relationships, which reveal an ambivalence between care and control, physical strength and broken will, instinct and manipulation. While seeking to question and dissolve these…

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Sandra Vásquez de la Horra

Alison Hugill — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 14:37:01 +0000

Sandra Vásquez de la Horra is a mother, a psychologist, an anthropologist and a cook, she tells me, when I ask her about her practice. Experienced in a variety of creative techniques, from xylography and typography through painting and drawing, she’s without a doubt a polyhedric artist with a propensity to experimentation. Born in Viña del Mar, Chile, De la Horra arrived in Germany when she was 28…

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