Thursday, April 24, 2008

Guestlist : an introduction 22 april 2008 in Berlin


My friend I. gave me the opportunity to make a dinner for my Berlinfriends at her house. Together we prepared the menue which was: Mousse d'haricots blanc avec un brin de menthe, soupe à l'oignion à la parisienne, salade verte de printemps et prunneaux au vin pimenté avec une étoile d'anis. N. brought a good cold bananacream dessert, thank you. It was a succes and we enjoyed the good time together. I made a list with all the guests because there were a lot of different people I knew from different times. I like to make lists and I wanted to give my guests something they could bring home...but I forgot to offer everyone an oigion because I bought 3kg of them and I. can't eat the 2 kg I left in Berlin.

M.K. is the youngest son of my fathers’ bestfriend. He’s videoartsit and musician.

C.H. is my oldest friend from Kehl, we did Kinderfreizeiten (summerholidays for kids) together. He is creatif director and invents games.

S.W., was a friend of my sister in childhood. I found her on the internet at Xing. She is working in the film industry.

B.M. (and his girlfriend Z.) is an old friend of my sister, we were living in the same city in Kehl. He is artist. We normaly met every Christmas and by chance oftener.

J.S. (and his girlfriend A.) is my oldest friend from university in Essen. He’s photographer and artist.

K.B. is a friend from university she is photographer and artist When I knew her she was very into yoga.

R.C. is my friend from university. He showed me the wonderful Asturias and Galicia in Spain. He’s graficdesigner.

My friend I.S. was studing in Essen too but I met her later when she was already in Amsterdam. She is fashion photographer and artist and wants to go to New York.

C.P. is a real Berliner. I met him in Paris at a friends house which whom he works a lot. He is industrial designer and artist.

M.D. and C.S. are photographers and artists, they study in Leipzig. I met them in Essen on a party in Essen where I went with my oldest friend L.L.

M.K. is journalist. She has an internetblog called fnart and writes about fashion and art. I read one of her textes about my friend C.J and I contacted her, because I found it was so well written. This is the first time I really see her.

S.U. (and her friend) is videoartist, I met her in october 2007 at the gallery Helga Klosterfelde, where we were talking a long time about Rikrit Tiravanija.

A.M. is artist. I met her at the Générale in Sèvres /Paris where my friend L.S. had an exhibition in november 2007. She lives in Berlin and travels a lot.

L.A. is artist and photographer. I will exhibit in his studio at La Générale in Sèvres /Paris in may. We didn’t had much time to see us. He lives in Paris and Berlin.

D.G. is I's roommate, I met him last week in this apartment. He is illustrator living in Berlin since 7 months.

O. is a friend of I.He has ten original black and white photography automats in Berlin and all over the world. I will see him for the first time tonight.

N. is I's friend is a famous Berlin Djane in coffees and clubs. I will see her for the first time tonight.

To be continued...




Thank you all for coming!

Spring Berlin

Last week I went to Berlin for to see the Berlin Biennale and for to visit my Berlinfriends. As a french-german person I'm always torn between the two countries. The medicine againt this is to be where you are in that moment and not to think about differencies, just enjoy the present. This is what I did and I had a very great time.

Here is in my opinion a good beginnig for Spring!

Less and less you see places like these in the center of Berlin.

This was sprayed on different walls in Kreuzberg. It seems that something happend that day, I wonder what...but it doesn't seems a good thing.

The installation from Katerina Sedá in Skulpturenpark, where I met by coincidence O.H a collegue from university . Berlin is a village for creatives!

Also on the terrain of the Skulpturenpark, but is was me who made it an artpiece...

A text from Sister Corita and artist-nonne. I never heard about her and was impressed by the combination of these two activities.