TENDERMESH ARTIST INTERVIEWS

Mazen 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.

Jorge Hernández is a Mexican artist, musician and producer.

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 mediu...

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 p...

TENDERMESH'S FIRST EVER ARTIST INTERVIEW AIRED ON 90MIL RADIO Nate 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 abs...

My 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 e...

Aka 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. H...

Kerima 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...

Nipuna 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,...

Jude 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 prac...

Pepi 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 precisi...

Seamus 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 b...

My 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...

Meghan 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, wit...

John-Michael is a multi-disciplinary artist who visually translates music and human emotion through various mediums, working both commercially and independently.

Azura (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...

Kayleigh 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.

(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.

Engaging 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. Mo...

Flyn 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, L...