Elisabeth Sonneck

A postcard, painted on an orange envelope from ELISABETH SONNECK, sent from Berlin, Germany. Elisabeth is a Berlin based abstract painter and installation artist. Her work is about the various shades and translucent layers of color and space and about the way how all of these topics might interact.

"Fernweh = being here + longing to be somewhere else, the good life = to be on the way there" Elisabeth has her studio in the same structure the last Anonymous Drawings Show "based in Berlin" took place, in May 2014. The name of this studio-house is Milchhof and it is located in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg, the former East. This is were I met her for some very nice and interesting conversations, not only about the  importance of colored walls and the way to paint them properly. (Which was the issue for me to resolve, before installing the Anonymous Drawings show) Elisabeth was very helpful and supportive during the installation period of the show. And it was a pleasure to take a break from painting the exhibition walls, sitting in the sun and chatting with her about pretty much everything. http://www.elisabeth-sonneck.de/

Michaela Zimmer

A postcard from MICHAELA ZIMMER, sent from Berlin, Germany. Michaee is a Berin based painter, performance artist and photographer. Her work is very complex and often material-based, She often uses spray paint, acrylics, lacquer, foil, plasitc film and canvases creating surprising abstract arrangements.

Michaela is also involved in various collaborations with other artists, such as frontviews, for example. I met Martina through a group show and dinner in an artist studio in Berlin 2012. My friends Veronike Hinsberg and Inken Reinert and I organized this evening.  This is how it worked: the three of us invited three people each. And every invited person was asked to invite another two people - not only artists but also people who might be interested to attend this evening. All artists brought one piece of their art, we displayed them on a blue wall in the studio at the very evening. In front of the wall there was a big table with food and drinks. It was a very lively dinner with interesting conversations and very nice people. And one of these nice people was Michaela. Her work and some texts (also in English) can be found here: http://www.michaela-zimmer.de/?page_id=31&_lang=en

Michael Bause

A postcard from MICHAEL BAUSE, sent from Berlin, Germany. Michael is a visual artist, an abstract painter from Berlin, Germany. He has unique skills in experimenting with various types of a paint, layers and subtle shades of colors.  Michael is a lovely person and  a highly esteemed collegue of mine.

Together with Seraphina Lenz, Christian Bilger, Frank Eltner, Dirk Lebahn, und Julia Ziegler he founded and organizes the project space oqbo | raum für bild wort ton in Berlin. oqbo is definitely one of my favorite art spaces in Berlin. It is small sized but the exhibitions, readings and music sessions are often exquisite. good art & good people. oqbo also organizes in regular intervals paperfile, a real treasure chest for all lovers of paper and drawing. So it is no wonder that there is a significant overlap of artists and visitors attending oqbo events and my Anonymous Drawings project. Thank you, Michael for this postcard!

Christine Falk

Two postcards from Indonesia sent by CHRISTINE FALK, a Berlin based painter. Christine travels a lot - specially to Asia - always in the context of her work as an artist. Currently she and her partner, the artist Alfred Banze, stay a couple of month in Indonesia. Her postcards arrived in an envelope. And this is the story she emailed me, right after she came back from the post office in Yokyakarta on January 26 (rough translation from German): "Yesterday we traveled from Wakatobi, the Marine National Park at the Bandasea south from Sulawesi, to Yokyakarta for our residency at the Kersan Art Studio. Over there I designed two postcards. It was not an easy thing to do for me, because I haven't worked within such a small format for years. And with the materials that are available over here. Well, you'll see. For convenience, and to make sure the postcards will arrive in time, I consciously waited for Yokyakarta and mailed them today. This was actually quite an action:

...We drove to the town center and the tourist center Maliboro Street. The post office was supposed to be there. We walked forever, it felt like passing 780 efficient merchants and countless sociable bicycle-rickshaw drivers. We passed up several temple visits and vulcano ascents, we did not by any batik, and - finally - at the end of the street we fond an (open!) post office. My request to dispatch the postcards quickly, has not been understood by the lady at the counter. Then our request has been shot down by a  second, English speaking lady. Postcards are not designed for being mailed quickly, and I should buy envelopes at the shop which was (conveniently) attached to the post office. So I went to expense purchasing an envelope. I convinced them to stamp the postcards before I put them in the envelope. the way the authentic of the postcard would be maintained. ABove that the collage of the one postcard won't be damaged. Now I hope my works arrive in about 2 weeks at the latest." Yes! Your postcards took exactly 16 days from Yokyakarta to Nebraska City. Christine, thank you very much for this extensive action!

"Dear Anke, Greetings from hot Indonesia to the cold Nebraska. Fernweh could not be more oppositional! Have a good time over there. Best, Christine"

"For me Indonesia is strongly connected with the sea and the colour of blue. Are you able to integrate Nebraska to this?"http://www.christinefalk.de

Cynthia Hartling

A postcard from CYNTHIA HARTLING, sent from New York City, USA. Cynthia is a visual artist, born in Albany, New York. She lives and works in New York City. Cynthia received her BFA from Cooper Union, New York and has also studied at the Istituto Statale d'Arte in Urbino, Italy and SUNY, New Paltz.

We met in Ortanto, Puglia Italy in 2012 in the context of an art-residency at the BAU Institute.  I worked for BAU as a staff-artist and Cynthia was one of the resident fellows. We spent a couple of nice evenings at a breezy bar on the waterfront, talking about art & life -  over some glasses of Aperol Spritz. I remember Cynthia's colorful paintings stretched out in the sun for drying - on the ancient stone floor ton the top of the Otranto castle.  http://www.cynthiahartling.com/