Idea and Work

How are works of art created? This series follows artists at work and documents their creative process. Portraits and work shots show the artists in the creative flow and provide insights into the creation of their works - from the initial inspiration to the final realisation.

Otto Baum

Otto Baum combines art and design into a unique practice that is both technical and creative. With a background in textile and surface design and a passion for hand lettering, he usually realises his creative ideas not on paper or canvas, but directly on walls. The central stage of his work is the 3.60 x 4.60 metre practice wall in his studio, which is constantly being repainted and redesigned. At the centre of this is the use of his self-developed ‘Ottotools’ - customised tools, devices and apparatus that combine precision and innovation. From stencils and brushes to complex devices and digital planning tools: The process of creating his works is just as important as the final image. Baum's work makes experimentation and the interplay of technology, ideas and craftsmanship visible - and invites you to experience the creative process up close.

@ottobaumart

Marina Koldolbskaya

Painter and Performance Artist

»We live in a stream of falsified information: Every news item in the mass media can be a lie, every photo photoshopped, every person a bot. And artificial intelligence is taking the lie industry to a whole new level.

As an artist, I therefore turn to the real in order not to lose the ground under my feet. The real that has existed for thousands of years, that has not changed since the birth of man and that we can already see in works that are thousands of years old.

Civilisations have disappeared, our feelings have remained: Fear, anger, hunger and lust. The urge to cuddle up to each other and the endeavour to always climb the highest branch.«

www.marinakoldobskaya.net

Chris Hartschuh

Photocubism

Chris Hartschuh learnt the craft of screen printing in his father's business and quickly developed a love of print and poster artwork – from the geometric-abstract purism of De Stijl to the rock band poster art of Frank Kozik and the photocubism of David Hockney. In recent years, the motifs for his photo and canvas collages have mainly been derived from intensive travel photography, whose mostly discarded, rusty and dysfunctional objects and still lifes full of patina he has made accessible to new perspectives by means of a multi-stage process of alienation, fragmentation and cubist collage.

www.hartschuh-bogati.com

Carsten Radtke

Human – Musician – Guitarist

»We play and listen to whatever is there. There is no life without improvisation.«

Skadi Engeln

Painting and Printmaking – Landscape and Figure

»In my paintings and prints I work with landscape and figure as a synonym for our changing world - through complexity and interweaving I trace its fleeting transitions, its essence, its beauty and transcendence in the field of tension between balance and disturbance.«