Your studio is located in Leipzig, a city that is famous for its hangouts and subcultures. Tell us more about Leipzig, the atmosphere of the city and how it inspires you.
Leipzig, the most beautiful city in the summer (heading to the lakes around & hanging on the streets all night) and most depressed in the winter (in Germany). So thoughts right now are something like "Winter is coming and my favorite bar just closed". Which actually happens in a few weeks!.
10 years from now, before we opened the studio, we knew that Leipzig is that place where artists (in every form) can live "low" by paying low rents. Somehow we got linked to an association named "Haushalten e.V.", who liked our concept of the riso studio and invited us into a house project. Years before that, the owner bought a (our) house in the empty and kinda wracked district in the east of Leipzig, He didn’t manage or did not want to renovate it - so he kinda let it be. The association contacted him around 2012 and they made up a deal, the deal was: we will renovate the house by paying a really low rent. So we moved ourselves and our studio to the east of Leipzig. It became a crazy pioneer time where actually everyone who just moved there seemed to had a blast by opening up things, renovating apartments or bars or squading areas for trailer parks and more. It felt like authorities did not care… So the feeling to design your own city was pretty motivating to kinda never say NO to any idea for projects or just hangouts.
But thoughts right now are something like "Winter is coming and my favorite bar just closed".