CHRISTIANE FESER
During the residency
2018
AWARDEES 2024
01 - KUNSTORT LEHNIN, BRANDENBURG
In her work, fiber, light, and water form a fragile web of movement and memory. Using concrete things—such as the life and sculptures of the artist Joachim Dunkel, here in the park at Lehnin—she explores how structures, even immaterial ones, take shape and how they can be translated into paper through gesture.
02 - BERLIN
Known for her glossy black webs made of adhesive tape, here she immerses herself in the whiteness of paper and its endless shifts from black to white. She works with water, pigments, and the impulse of soaked paper to reach into space. There is a musicality in her brushwork and a subtle conquest of space.
03 - KUNSTORT LEHNIN, BRANDENBURG
Fully surrendering to the material, she uses her hands to sense and shape her immediate surroundings: site-specific, physical. She investigates the material’s ability to hold form from within. Everything becomes inspiration: a roof, a table, coffee grounds, broken blinds…
04 - BERLIN
Her work is guided by the idea of designing dwellings in a regional context. Engaging with flora and fauna, climate, and context, she follows meandering streams, amorphous forms, and places that blend into nature while simultaneously standing out—artfully and artificially—through color and materiality.
05 - BERLIN
What may seem playful at first glance is, in truth, a precise translation of the world into color and form. The artist creates spaces whose color combinations are distinctive. Feminine. Yet, through the sheer number of possible combinations, they remain untamable.
AWARDEES 2024
01 - MUNICH
CONRAD creates three-dimensional objects and structures that he transfers to paper. To do this, he experiments with his bare feet and heavily soaked paper. The element “color” creates anchor points.
02 - BERLIN
Karolin Schwab photographs and paints places and conditions of which we know how they sound.
In her serial work, she approaches the translation of “sound” into “form” using a wide variety of approaches.
03 - BERLIN
João Freitas says: “My aim is to overcome the passivity of the two-dimensional image, to transcend its surface limitations and reveal the physical support it conceals.”
04 - BERLIN
Katja Strunz combines her knowledge of folding with the components of paper and the world. Strict structure holds together what breaks apart in our reality: Destroyed landscapes, climate, politics, wars. Through folding, the present “comes into order” and finds ways out.
AWARDEES 2022
02 - BERLIN
03 - BERLIN
04 - MUNICH
AWARDEES 2021
01 - BERLIN
02 - BERLIN
03 - BERLIN
04 - MUNICH
AWARDEES 2020
01 - BERLIN
02 - BERLIN
03 - BERLIN
04 - MUNICH
AWARDEES 2019
01 - BERLIN
02 - BERLIN
03 - BERLIN
04 - MUNICH
AWARDEES 2018
01 - BERLIN
02 - BERLIN
03 - BERLIN
AWARDEES 2023
01 - BERLIN
Annabel Daou layers, tears, and cuts until the paper throws itself at us in the form of words, speaking to us
02 - BERLIN
Haleh Redjaian symbolically untangles the knots of the traditionally woven carpets from her childhood, transforming them into hand-cut strips of paper through a process of reweaving.
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03 - BERLIN
Serena Alma Ferrario breathes life into her drawn figures through organic cuts in paper, creating picture stories that come alive in space.
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04 - MUNICH
Breaking open the material is crucial in Nadine Fecht's work. Instead of using a knife, she employs fire and embers, revealing layer after layer of the paper in a graphic gesture or even radically opening it up with burn holes.