For Inga Nelli art is the highest form of hope. In her art, writings and projects, Inga Nelli mainly draws upon her roles as artist, wife, and mother to reflect on the ambiguity of manifold identities that each of us embodies.
She is very interested in in-between spaces, transitional moments where nothing is fixed and everything is possible.
Before coming back to Berlin in 2018, Inga lived in Hong Kong for five years. That experience profoundly changed her perception of our world. She especially fell in love with the aesthetics of Korean Art and the school of mono-ha, the Japanese philosophy of wabi sabi and for sure Asian food.
Having a great concern for our planet, Inga curated art exhibitions and fundraising events that rose awareness for socially relevant topics like plastic pollution, marine debris and blindness.
For Coeur et Art, she will share everything that touches femininity and motherhood in art, in-between spaces and activism in art.
You can reach her at: inga@coeuretart.com
MARJAN MOGHADDAM: Russian doll of virtual reality
In this interview, Marjan Moghaddam – the “First lady of Animated Painting” – reflects on the vastness of the digital, the end of the future, metaphysics & feminism.
Irina Ojovan: PAINT IT BLACK
After visiting Irina Ojovan during her art residency stay at Berlin’s Künstlerhaus Bethanien, we met up with her again to find out why the Moldova-born, Germany-based artist, known for being a versatile colourist, suddenly turned to black in her new series.
BEATRIZ CORTEZ: My heart belongs with my body.
The Los Angeles-based, San Salvadoran artist Beatriz Cortez, recently awarded the inaugural Frieze Arto LIFEWTR® Sculpture Prize, talks about her new work for Frieze Sculpture New York at Rockefeller Center, and reflects on migration, simultaneity, loss and her ideas on planetary motion.
INTRODUCING Marianna Olague
Our Introducing Interview with the Mexican-American artist Marianna Olague who received this year’s Mercedes-Benz Financial Services Michigan Emerging Artist Award and recently finished her artist residency at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin.
STUDIO VISITS Hajime Mizutani at Künstlerhaus Bethanien
A white space. The morning light has just passed. Atmospheric sounds of Brian Eno’s New Space Music fill the room. The sound of boiling water. Hajime Mizutani, a current Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien resident, welcomes me to his studio and invites me to a Japanese oolong tea. His studio is very clean. There are no brushes, no paint stains or any traces of creative artist chaos.
ART & ACTIVISM with Liina Klauss
What happens when you let the apocalypse look like a rainbow? We asked environmental artist Liina Klauss “the” three questions and all you have to do is read, watch the images arising before your inner eye and let your heart go vroum! … and hopefully join her on her journey to change our society through art!
MICHAEL PENDRY: In the light of peace and hope
Coeur et art talked with multimedia artist Michael Pendry about his world-traveling multimedia installation Les Colombes – the doves that will stop in Washington DC in May 2020.
CONVERSATIONS Chiharu Shiota
Coeur et Art editor Inga Nelli talked to Chiharu Shiota about identity, process, the meaning…
INTRODUCING Gyun Hur
Yellow shredded silk flowers whirl in the wind. Some remnants leave neon yellow traces on…