Schau Fenster is a gsllery in Berlin (Taken with instagram)
At a big ass dinner party in Berlin. @peachesnisker is here! (Taken with instagram)
My favorite @playboy belt buckle (Taken with instagram)
Coked out fags
Berlin is a city full of aspiring designers and innovators. Some of them find a stage to express themselves during Berlin Fashion Week - right under the spotlight, in the tent at Brandenburger Gate. Others end up at a studio in Kreuzberg.
These photos are a selection of shots of the type of behaviour that has come to define Berlin Fashion Week, and ArtStars* & Grateful Grapefruit were there to capture it.
Photos by Yehuda Swed, a Berlin-based photographer.
Dafni Barbageorgopoulou
Greek women are known to be the biggest bitches, but not Dafni Barbageorgopoulou. This artist from Johannesberg (who was raised in Greece) graduated from the Royal College of Art (if that isn’t a stamp of approval, I don’t know what is) is gearing up for a residency at the Goldrausch for girls in Berlin. Fact: I’m looking forward to it. Barbageorgopoulou (we’ll call her B-girl for short) has shown in Amsterdam, the UK, Athens and more, and seems to win awards wherever she goes. On top of being a staple in dozens of private collections across Europe, I can’t help but love the fact that whenever I look at her Star Wars sculptures, they could take off at any moment. B-girl is an up-and-coming ArtStar who definitely could too.
Photo shoot with Yehuda Swed. (Taken with instagram)
Currently being shot by a Canon 5d mark 2 (Taken with instagram)
New dress (Taken with instagram)
I love getting mail art from artists. Here is a package that just arrived from Toronto artist, Leanne Davies. Her work has been featured on CBC’s the Hour with George Strombo, she has shown in Paris, across the US, the Netherlands, and has done residencies in Marney-sur-Seine and Vermont. This girl has been around… and she has the resume to show it. Me, I’m a big fan of her new body of work “Keep it.” She has gone from cutesy to surreal, offering strange placements of objects we’d find in our drawers or on tabletops. Totally weird and otherworldly, you know there’s more to these pieces than meets the eye. You can just feel it.
This ArtStars* painting on wood by Davies is going to adorn the first ArtStars* office once we launch in Berlin — it will hang right in the lobby. Leanne, thanks for keeping the dream alive! And thanks for being a big dreamer, too.
Love,
Nadja
