play / pause / play

We switch our illustration machine on from time to time. In the summer more often than in wintertime. We - a group of students and alumnis from the Bauhaus University in Weimar - operate this machine that turns wishes of the audience into illustrations. The outcome can be partly watched in our blog : www.illumat.typolis.net/. The pictures that are fabricated by me I started to collect in my flickr-acount : click here. // Von Zeit zu Zeit wird unsere Illustrationsmaschine angeschaltet. Wir - eine Gruppe von Studenten und Absolventen der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar - betreiben diese Maschine, die die Wünsche des Publikums in Illustratonen umwandelt. Die entstandenen Bilder können zum Teil auf unserem Blog angeschaut werden : www.illumat.typolis.net/. Meine Bilder habe ich angefangen, in meinem Flickr-Acount zu sammeln hier klicken.

hommage à Erwin Wurm

After visiting the sculpture / installation "Selbstporträt als Essiggurkerl / Selfportrait as a gherkin" by Erwin Wurm in the Museum der Moderne in Salzburg which was very appealing and my friend Ines liked a lot - it was very tempting to do portraits of us too.
Here we are :

greetings from salzburg!

We went visiting a friend that is attending a painting course at the summer academy here - that seems to be quiete advisable.
Saw Salzburg laying to our feet from the surrounding hills ... Yes, million of tourists are right - Salzburg is beautifull! Just walk with them in the "Mirabell Gardens" - you might like garden architecture or not - it is quiete something.... I am used to tourists in Weimar, but here is almost nothing but tourist between the pretty houses, the floating river and lovely gardens.
Just try to avoid fortress, if you don´want to feel like in a cattle drive. You can surely have this experience much nicer at the mountain pastures of the surrounding mountains.
Sooo, we saw lot of art ... and also watched the very recommandable film the "Julie & Julia" about cooking, blogging and idols - which was extremely funny!

in wonderland

We spent the weekend in a friend´s garden near Nürnberg, it was just wonderfull ....

summary

End of the year´s exhibition at Bauhaus-University in Weimar. We are taking part as Alumnis at our atelier house KreativEtage in the heart of Weimar. // Jahresendausstellung der Bauhaus-Uni in Weimar. Wir nehmen als Alumni an der Ausstellung teil. Ausstellungsraum ist geöffnet von heute bis Sonntag in unsrem Atelierhaus KreativEtage im Herzen von Weimar.

Informationen zur Ausstellung? Hier klicken!
15.07. - 18.07.2010

cubes for stage

We are still working on the stage design for the new play "Geschichten aus der Vorstadt des Universums" for kids by "Theater im Karton" in Jena. Elise Richter and me spent the weekend whitening the cubes and drawing on them. We did sweets, a busy street, a whale, houses, waves ... the cubes will be an active part of the stage and combined variously. // Die Arbeiten am Bühnebild für das "Theater im Karton sind noch nicht abgeschloßen. Dieses Wochenende haben Elise Richter und ich die Kuben / Elemente des Bühnenbilds geweißt und anschließend bemalt.

mehr bilder / more pictures ...

Die Luft ist raus.

Schade für alle deutschen Fußballfans.... Aber nun ist wieder Zeit für andere schöne Dinge!
// What a pity for all german football freaks ... But there are still other nice things to do this summer!

Happy Birthday!

A card made for the birth of the kid of two of my friends from Antwerp, the animation for another cute kid that will be born in Bratislava! ... /// Karte für zwei Freunde aus Antwerpen anlässlich der Geburt ihres Sohnes, die Animation selbst ist für ein anderes Baby, das bald in Bratislava geboren wird ...

More animation? ... click ... click

action drawing + illumat in berlin

The last weekend the illumat-team spent visiting our friendly atelier Musenstube in Berlin. For a drawing action they covered the whole atelier with paper and people could draw on everything ... sofas, lamps, walls ... The next two days we did the illustration machine again, while a block party took place in 48-h-Neukölln. What a nice and refreshing trip!!

More Pictures : click here!

rare species

... first time seen in german forests near dresden last weekend.

kunstlawine * impressions

more to be seen at my ... / mehr gibts auf meinem ... flickr

Kunstlawine II / 2

Vernissage Samstag 20 Uhr in Erfurt : organisiert von Kunsthaus Erfurt

where have all the flowers gone

a busy week between two weekends filled with illumat-actions // eine geschäftige Woche zwischen zwei Wochenenden mit Illumat-Aktionen // http://illumat.typolis.net/

superposition

No time for drawing right now, but while working on the shape of a jacket for a toy, this thing started to look at me from the screen. // Zum Zeichnen bleibt grad keine Zeit, aber als ich heute an der Jacke für eine Spielzeugfigur arbeitete, schaute mich plötzlich dieses Wesen an :

Bazonnale : Lust

Exhibition in Weimar running till 30th of June 2010. My contribution here! // Die Ausstellung "Lust" in Weimar läuft bis 30. Juni 2010. Mein Beitrag- hier klicken.
Infos: www.bazonnale.de .

Away ..

Tomorrow we are travelling for a week with ILLUMAT to Luzern to Fumetto - the best comic festival ever :-)
More information at : www.fumetto.ch and www.punktepublicart.wordpress.com
and illumat.typolis.net

like a bee hive in spring

I designed these labels for my parent´s bee´s honey.

manifestations of clouds

Theatre Workshop

Last weekend I gave a workshop for a theater group from Jena. They are developing a piece based on stories of Shaun Tan. My aim now was to introduce drawing as a media and actor in the piece. Especially for the story "Eric" we develloped drawings starting from "little found things" and practised collective drawing. The piece forms under the direction of Paul Josiger. The stage setting is done by Elise Richter. Altough it was the first really nice weekend I enjoyed being inside and getting inspired by the whole thing - the interaction between drawing, acting, music and the really nice people! // Workshop am 17. / 18. April 2010 im Kulturbahnhof Jena mit der Gruppe "Theater im Karton". Gerade wird dort unter der Leitung von Paul Josiger ein Stück für Kinder aus Geschichten von Shaun Tan entwickelt. Der Workshop soll Zeichnung als Medium in das Stück einführen. Wir haben viel experimentiert, projeziert, gemalt und gezeichnet. Das Bühnenbild wurde von Elise Richter entworfen und umgesetzt.

For more pictures : click here.

Open Door Day.

Since february we have our new collective atelier in Weimar with Ewa, Flo, Illumat, Ina and Lydia.
Friday the 16th of april2010 all the ateliers in the house opened their doors for visitors.
There were lot of people, cake and Bratwurst and a good occasion decorate our walls and get to know our neighbours.
For more pictures : click here.

Done!

I did this pop-up interpretation of the fairy-tale "Hänsel und Gretel" for kellner.spiel - next week it will travel to a Japan to accompany a presenation for a playground there wich is inspired by fairy-tales. It was the first time I did something like this and it was such interesting process to make a pop-up! Puzzling all the different parts together really fits with my way of working.

More pictures click : here!

Ganz schön kalt ohne Mantel.

Diese Illustration von mir findet ihr im Erfurter Kulturmagazin hEFt. Das Thema dieser Ausgabe ist "Übergangsjacken" - Übergangsjahreszeiten und Ähnliches. Das Bild steht neben dem sehr schönen Text von "Ein Stück Abchasien" von David Turashvili.
http://heft-online.de/

Happy Easter!

Keep your eyes open and enjoy easter! My favourite Easter fountain springs in Weimar... // Augen auf bei der Eiersuche und frühes Aufwachen bei der Wanderung zur Osterquelle! Mein Lieblings-Osterbrunnen sprudelt in Weimar...