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TENDERMESH ARTIST INTERVIEWSTENDERMESH ARTIST SPOTLIGHTS: Mazen AlsafadiMazen Alsafadi, 25-year-old Lebanese poet and environmental science master’s student who moves between the worlds of art and science, finding fulfillment in both. Previously organized open mics at Riwaq and now hosting Poetry Nights at Heiners, warm, welcoming evenings of poetry and connection.2025-05-2359 min
TENDERMESH ARTIST INTERVIEWSTENDERMESH ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Jorge HernándezJorge Hernández is a Mexican artist, musician and producer.2025-05-201h 00
TENDERMESH ARTIST INTERVIEWSTENDERMESH ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: STEPHAN WHITEStephan White (aka Artboydancing) explores visual and non-verbal art through sculpture, collage, and painting. Born in 1973, he divides his time between New York City and Berlin, inspired by each city’s unique character. He earned his MFA from SUNY Albany State University in 2004.As an artist with Autism and other cognitive learning disabilities, Stephan uses art as a liberating, non-verbal medium to express his experiences. The circle symbolizes his journey, drawing viewers into the composition’s complex story. He explores the intersection of the sacred and psychological through textured layers, avoiding direct grasping of these themes. Colors are...2025-02-0553 min
TENDERMESH ARTIST INTERVIEWSTENDERMESH ARTIST SPOTLIGHTS: STEPHAN WHITE Stephan White (aka Artboydancing) explores visual and non-verbal art through sculpture, collage, and painting. Born in 1973, he divides his time between New York City and Berlin, inspired by each city’s unique character. He earned his MFA from SUNY Albany State University in 2004.As an artist with Autism and other cognitive learning disabilities, Stephan uses art as a liberating, non-verbal medium to express his experiences. The circle symbolizes his journey, drawing viewers into the composition’s complex story. He explores the intersection of the sacred and psychological through textured layers, avoiding direct grasping of these themes. Colors are...2025-01-3047 min
TENDERMESH ARTIST INTERVIEWSARTIST SPOTLIGHT WITH f0Ment!For this artist spotlight, host, Savanna Fortgang, will be interviewing Niko. He has operated as Fringe Society/Modern Ruin for the better part of the last decade. He had dealings and a “career””” in music before but his path in music has evolved in many ways throughout the decades. We will be discussing his many musical projections, including his most recent creation "f0ment." It’s a 2 year old project but it has been a long time coming and as he put its "probably my final form." Nike is Greek born but has lived in the UK and Germany since 2000...2024-10-2959 min
TENDERMESH ARTIST INTERVIEWSARTIST SPOTLIGHT: NATE HELMERICKTENDERMESH'S FIRST EVER ARTIST INTERVIEW AIRED ON 90MIL RADIONate Helmerick is a Berlin based multi disciplinary artist. He explores a vast array of mediums including photography, sound based art and performance as well as painting and sculpture.His visual painting based work comes from a realm of chathartic and therapeutic release. Channeling and following the flow state, the pieces have an abstract and ritualistic quality. Earthly and grounding, yet somehow offering a psychedelic and rich stimulation to the senses.2024-09-131h 02
TENDERMESH ARTIST INTERVIEWSINTRODUCING RUBEN BALTHASARMy name is Ruben Balthasar Bütterich, and I have been living in Berlin for four years. Since 2021, I have been studying product design at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. During my studies, I have particularly developed myself in the field of textiles and deepened my knowledge in this area. In addition to numerous other projects, I am dedicated to fashion, performance, and art. I have extensive experience in planning and implementing photo and video shoots, as well as in conceptual work. Furthermore, I have taken on the leadership of productions for installations.2024-08-1301 min
TENDERMESH ARTIST INTERVIEWSINTRODUCING ROGBIVY BOUCHARDAka Rachel McCollum (b. New York, 1983) is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Berlin. She explores how form operates in nature through painting and construction with materials. Using graphic lines and a saturated palette, she references patterns, symbols, traditional art, and craft. She makes street art as Intervention, considering its playful, accessible qualities to be inherently democratic. Her recent work involves sculptural installation that utilizes a light source to influence contour and emphasize the tactility and transparency of non woven textiles.2024-08-1302 min
TENDERMESH ARTIST INTERVIEWSINTRODUCING KERIMAKerima Elfaza is a freelance 3D fashion and costume designer based in Bremen, Germany. After completing her bachelor degree in Fashion Design at Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle and Royal Academy of Fine Arts Copenhagen, she studied Integrated Design at the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen to take her master’s degree. At this stage, her work is most focused on interdisciplinary projects in the field of 3D art, performances, textile and fashion design.2024-08-1301 min
TENDERMESH ARTIST INTERVIEWSINTRODUCING NIPUNANipuna Jayasekera, (b. 1990) in Sri Lanka, developed an interest in art and music from a young age. When given a cricket bat as a child, he chose instead to play it as a guitar. During childhood in Sri Lanka, Nipuna often played with tuning dials on old radios, surfing the Am/Fm frequencies. Discovering the recording functions of subsequent hi-fi systems sparked a lifelong fascination with music, sound recording, and sampling. Years later, Nipuna attended art school in Melbourne, Australia, to study media arts, although he decided to drop out in the final year. Despite leaving a formal education...2024-08-1304 min
TENDERMESH ARTIST INTERVIEWSINTRODUCING JUDE VADÉEJude Vadée is a Berlin based french photographer and visual artist born in 1996. At the intersection between fashion and documentary, his work contributes to archiving queer and non-normatives existences. He has been documenting Berlin’s trans community, drag scene, and queer nightlife for the past couple years, and collecting portraits of lgbtq+ individuals since the start of his photography practice. His images, honest, raw and intimate, explore notions of gender and sexuality, identity and performance, intimacy and relationships. Photography appears as a tool to explore individual and collective identity, and enables him to find community through portraiture.2024-08-1102 min
TENDERMESH ARTIST INTERVIEWSINTRODUCING PEPI SCHIKOWSKIPepi Schikowski (b. 1996) is an Australian/German painter and multimedia artist. In his practice, he questions preconceived narratives by diving into their ecology and inter-subjectivities. Inspired by archaeology, literature, mythologies, and personal anecdotes, his striking yet playful subjects move into the realm of the immaterial, inhabiting the spaces we cannot see. Navigating between precision and spontaneity, control and experimentation, the interplay of techniques reflects the multifaceted nature of his practice, demonstrating a tension between innocence and intensity. He studied at HKU Utrecht and HGB Leipzig and now lives and works in Berlin.2024-08-1102 min
TENDERMESH ARTIST INTERVIEWSINTRODUCING SEAMUS PLATTSeamus Platt is an Australian born, Berlin-based, visual artist who employs the photographic image as a starting point in order to explore the distance between the documentary and narrative genres. Intentionally oscillating between photography’s poles; index and construction, Platt works to dismantle Photography’s archaic relation to authenticity, foregrounding the medium’s unavoidable bind with bias. Using the power of past tense, Platt leans on semiotic sequencing to create meaning through metaphor, pairing sets of disparate images that are drawn from their archive. Platt responds to their immediate milieus, examining gender identity and so-called Australia’s socio-po...2024-08-1002 min
TENDERMESH ARTIST INTERVIEWSINTRODUCING ROBIN BRIGNALLMy name is Robin, I am a graphic designer, artist and maker from the UK. For this tendermesh exhibition I will be showing my clothes for the first time ever, so I'm a little nervous! I have been working with textiles for years. It first served as a creative escape from the screen dominated work as a graphic designer and has slowly moved and grown into a larger part of my creative practice. My work is hugely inspired by the city and world around me, the people, the environment, the cultures and I try to...2024-08-1001 min
TENDERMESH ARTIST INTERVIEWSINTRODUCING MEGHAN MARIE MALARMeghan Marie Malar (b. 1996) is a FrenchMalaysian artist working across moving image, writing and sculpture. She researches clothing as personal document and cultural artefact, and the public imaginary occupied by consumer retail spaces. This preoccupation is a direct product of her upbringing in France and Geneva, with their storied relationship to fashion and luxury retail, and Kuala Lumpur, with its growing mall-culture. Fashion is one facet of a wider interest in mass and pop cultural phenomena and their influence on the construction of ideology, individualism, and a collective archive.2024-08-1001 min
TENDERMESH ARTIST INTERVIEWSINTRODUCING JOHN-MICHAELJohn-Michael is a multi-disciplinary artist who visually translates music and human emotion through various mediums, working both commercially and independently.2024-08-1001 min
TENDERMESH ARTIST INTERVIEWSINTRODUCING AZURAAzura (they/them) is a UK born artist from Portsmouth currently studying fashion design in Berlin. Before coming to Berlin they graduated from (name of uni) in Bristol with a degree in psychology which they often incorporate into their designs. They like using lots of texture and layering in their designs as well as mixed media like sculpture and textile manipulation. They have a strong belief in sustainability taking care choosing the amount of textiles they choose, repurposing and reusing scraps and leftover materials. Their designs dismiss gender norms and replace that with full freedom of expression.2024-08-0902 min
TENDERMESH ARTIST INTERVIEWSINTRODUCING KAYLEIGH MAIMARANKayleigh Maimaran (b.1996) is a multidisciplinary artist. With a particular interest in the concept of psychological space and architecture, her practice combines video, sound and sculptural elements as a form to explore physical and non-visual aspects of space. 2024-08-0801 min
TENDERMESH ARTIST INTERVIEWSINTRODUCING AMAAN HASSEN(b.1991) I am a photographer, filmmaker and visual artist based in Berlin. My practice is rooted in the sentimentality of everyday experiences, which I explore often in either a playful or sensitive manner. I am also the co-founder of Berlin Artspace - Backhaus Projects.2024-08-0802 min
TENDERMESH ARTIST INTERVIEWSINTRODUCING CELINA KLOHKEngaging in a multidisciplinary approach to her work, Celina Klohk pursues ideas around phenomenology, subjectivity and unique nature of modern day anxieties. Personal memories, imagination and the ominous presence of cyber-culture come together in an iterative process to re-create mundane moments, amplifying these specific experiences and allowing them to develop into new fictional narratives. Moments of solitude contrast busy group gatherings, introspection contrasts a forgotten self.Celina lives and works in Berlin, Germany.2024-08-0802 min
TENDERMESH ARTIST INTERVIEWSINTRODUCUCING FLYN VIBERTFlyn Vibert is a photographer and artist based in Berlin. Their work explores the concept of ‘organic photography’. A practice which involves transforming the surface of portrait images through a variety of unconventional and self-taught processes. These are neither digital nor darkroom in their origin, but are uniquely created.Moreover, their work deals with questions of grief, sustainability, LGBTQ+ issues, and the gender experience.Flyn is concerned with pushing the boundaries of the photographic medium through experimentation. Looking not towards digital practice or conceptual methodology, but to evolving the role of the photographer as an arti...2024-08-0803 min