In 2018, Christian Dettler quit his 9 to 5 job in the marketing department of a big corporation and followed his beautiful partner in crime (and our Berlinogirl) Helena Melikov from Erfurt to Berlin. They shared a dream to live a fully independent life, run and own a publishing house, and have time to make art. They made their dream come true and founded the publishing space KOCMOC where they produce handmade books, magazines, and prints full of poetry and…
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Masha Isserlis is a Ukrainian woman who came to Germany in 2004. As an art historian and curator, she is a part of the curatorial team of the non-profit art space “Aperto Raum” in…
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Aperto Raum presents Political Animals by Alina Bliumis, her first solo exhibition in Germany. The title of the exhibition references Aristotle’s term in his politics. “However, instead of meaning, as Aristotle did, that we…
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Alexander Bondar is a photographer who co-created Zoopark Collective with photographer and publisher Tatyana Palyga. We met Alexander in Kreuzberg. He told us about his journey from Russia to Germany, why he didn’t like…
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Tatyana Palyga lived in many places before finally moving to Berlin. She recently opened Zoopark Studio with her business partner Alexander Bondar in Berlin-Neukölln. Reason enough for us to sit down with her and…
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Zoopark Publishing Collective launches Zoopark Studio [Berlin] in Kreuzberg Zoopark Publishing Collective is a team of two Russian photographers, Tatyana Palyga and Alexander Bondar, officially named Zoopark Collective since 2016, but actually united already in…
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Elena Margulis is an entrepreneur and the founder of fEast – a series of events in Berlin which aim to show the diversity of Eastern European culture. We met the Ukrainian in Prenzlauer Berg…
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Gala, first named Elena Diakonova, was born in the Russian Empire and moved to Switzerland at an early age then later to Paris, where she married the young poet Paul Éluard. She was a…
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WHAT: The picture book project for adults Through personal objects and stories, searching for thoughts, words and images about your own „I“ : — which parts do I consist of — what is my…
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The author Ani Menua, the illustrator Ekaterina Koroleva and the Russian-Jewish painter Marc Chagall met for a (fictitious) conversation at Galerie Van Diemen in Berlin, where Marc Chagall and other Russian contemporary artists held…
