stylistberlin is the official media partner of ART VILLAGE x BERLIN FESTIVAL 2012! Here are the artist interviews, so you get a glimpse of who they are and what they do at ART VILLAGE:

stylistberlin presents: the participating artists of ART VILLAGE x BERLIN FESTIVAL 2012

Three questions, three answers.

Part 3: JOHANNES MUNDINGER, ULTRAMOODEM, LISA WASSMANN

ART VILLAGE x BERLIN FESTIVAL 2012: Johannes Mundinger

1.Who are you, what are you doing and what does your artwork stand for?
I will refer to Oliver Breitenstein, director of the Berliner Kunstverein (Münster) to answer this question:
“Slowly I got the impression that every material was used and the most profane material was fitting perfectly. In the best case paired with a banal theme, like for example as used in the „boogerpaintings“. Was this dealing with denial of playing a part in sublime perception of art with a bloated, theoretical superstucture? Did just the mere joy of creating stand in the center, without considering how the posterity would receive it? Did the artist pick his nose, just to finish the last traces of the grey mass in my head as dessert?“

I am Johannes Mundinger, co-founder of the streetart crew xXcrew, studied in Münster and Brussels, live in Berlin and like to paint walls in turcois.

2. What are you going to do at the ART VILLAGE?
In dialogue with the visitors of my hut at ART VILLAGE I am going to portrait each counterpart of me in a huge format, so that my work is consisting of steadily growing series of portraits. The focus, however, will not be on „portraying“ reproducts of faces, but on the participative aspect and ist expressive. I am going to create pictures through impressions ans associations which I will gain through the conversation.

3. What is your next project after the ART VILLAGE?
The ART VILLAGE ist he last station of my fully packed event- and travel-summer. I am going to take a break afterwards. Maybe a visit to the Color-Revolution, Chemnitz or the Sichtbeton Wandmaltage in Dresden, but nothing big planned for now.

www.jmundinger.de
www.facebook.com/Johannes.Mundinger

ART VILLAGE x BERLIN FESTIVAL 2012: Ultramoodem

1. Who are you, what are you doing and what does your artwork stand for?
My name is Moritz Stumm. I make videos, drawings and installations. I am part of the sound- and artcollective Schockglatze and co-founder of the label „Flipping the Coin“.

2. What are you going to do at the ART VILLAGE?
A panorama projection over several boat containers. It is supposed to be sort of a triptychon inspired by classical idols. It is not ready yet, so I will not reveal too much.

It is undergoing a lot of changes to be defined yet…

3. What is your next project after the ART VILLAGE?
Releasing an album of Saâdane Afif on my label “Flipping the Coin”.

ART VILLAGE x BERLIN FESTIVAL 2012: Lisa Wassmann

1. Who are you, what are you doing and what does your artwork stand for?
My name is Lisa Wassmann I am a photo/ video Artist born and raised in Berlin.

2. What are you going to do at the ART VILLAGE?
I have been taking pictures in Berlin Clubs for about seven years now, also before the big party hype here began. I am working with musicians and labels such as BPitch Control, COOP, as a result of this I have been touring through the scene in Berlin quiete a lot.
Together with Conny I created the photo blog around the legendary Scala Club.
I am in the fith year of photographing the Berlin Festival, but this time I will also be exclusivley showing a selection of photographs under the working title ´funpark` in cooperation with The Berliners.

3. What is your next project after the ART VILLAGE?
´Funpark`is going to be a book. Also have two big new photo projects coming up and might be going back to Athens in winter where I stayed the last months.

The original interviews can be read in German and English on the Official Art Village x Berlin Festival 2012 Website.