Berlin-based arts and culture writer.
Directions Magazine: A New Hedonism
The title essay for the latest edition of Directions, a magazine by Design Hotels.
When we travel, an entire universe of pleasure unfurls before us. Its shape is soft and sublime, its offerings decadent and tender. Through making our quest for pleasure conscious, travel can engender mutual flourishing; becoming an act that nurtures not only the self, but others and the Earth.
Baroque Minimalism: In Conversation With Muller Van Severen
An interview with Fien Muller and Hannes Van Severen for Ignant.
Fien Muller and Hannes Van Severen met in 2001 at the LUCA School of Arts in Ghent. Amidst hours of study—her, photography; him, sculpture—love grew between them, becoming a creative world in which art and life coalesce and intertwine. Today, the couple is best known for their work as Muller Van Severen, a design studio whose playful minimalist furniture has defined a new era in functional art.
Guadalupe Nettel’s Searing New Novel Asks: What Makes a Mother?
Interview with Guadalupe Nettel for AnOther Magazine
As her latest book 'Still Born' is published, the Mexican writer talks about new modes of kinship, being an angry feminist, and why “it is far more difficult to control a childless woman.”
The ArchDaily Guide to Good Architecture
Editor of 'The ArchDaily Guide to Good Architecture
Building for Change
Editor of 'Building for Change'
How can we build a sustainable future in a time of climate change and dwindling resources? 'Building for Change' collects the strategies of reuse together for the first time, demonstrating their power for change through groundbreaking projects from some of the world’s leading architects. From waste repurposed as construction materials, to buildings reworked with canny spatial interventions, and modular structures designed to be dismantled, discover how the architecture of creative reuse is helping us build a better tomorrow.
Samsara
Writer
Shot on the coast of England in Dungeness, Samsara is influenced by Shiraishi’s memories of childhood visits to his grandparents’ home in the countryside of Japan, and the realisation that arose from his time there: that the natural and man-made were both part of the landscape, a part of nature.
BLAU International: Issue 5
Copy Editor of BLAU International
In the upcoming issue, early feminist artist Joan Semmel talks about her life spent painting ahead of the curve. The youthful Florian Krewer invites fashion designer Jonathan Anderson into his voyeuristic yet judgement-free work. And Matthew Barney re-emerges from the woods, still flexing those mythical muscles.
Claire-Louise Bennett Wants to Elevate the Everyday Female Experience
As her new novel, Checkout 19, is released, Bennett spoke to AnOther about revisiting England in her writing, the importance of exploring and elevating female experience, and why we need new narrative forms
The Intimacy of Daily Life/The News is the Weather
ISLAND | ISSUE 157
Rosie Flanagan and Miriam McGarry travelled to Iceland to participate in the Printing Matter residency at Skaftfell. They shared their reflections with Island...
Out of the Woods
Author of 'Out of the Woods', an architecture title published by Gestalten.
True Color
This mountain sings a different blue each season. During summer, its shape is uncertain and its edges evanescent. In the heat it becomes a cerulean haze that merges with the sky. This diaphanous veil lifts in autumn, revealing a landscape that is deep-blue, and dolerite columns that I have seen verge on violet. When the weather is crisp, the mountain’s face can appear pale and severe; the color of an early bruise masked by mist. Its summit dusted white.
The Impossible Architecture of Dreams
Dreamscapes writer Rosie Flanagan discusses how the digital world is liberating design.
Art Must Be A Space Of Dissonance
An interview with Bonaventure Ndikung, the founder of Berlin cultural center SAVVY, the co-artistic director of Galerie Wedding, and the curator at large of 2017’s documenta 14 in Kassel and Athens.
Evergreen Architecture
Author of the introduction to 'Evergreen Architecture', an architecture title published by Gestalten.