Lower East

Explore the lower east lab

Explore, use, rent, visit, enjoy the Lower East Lab Berlin. Our lab, placed centrally in lovely Kreuzberg, works as a design studio, a workshop space, a meeting room, a pop-up gallery, a pop-up dinner space, a co-working space, a work-away-from-home space – you can have talks & gatherings – you can use it as a showroom, for photo shoots or photo studio. You just have to fix a date with us. The size of the lab is 200 square meters. Study the pictures. And reach out if you want to know more! js@lowereastlab.de or +45 40636899.

New website for Godsbanen

New website designed and produced by Lower East for the cultural production center Godsbanen in the centre of Aarhus, Denmark. The new site is up & running just now. We are really happy with the result. Thanks to Godsbanen for joyful teamwork and for trusting us in this creative process. We hope you will be tempted to find your way to this wonderful place!

At Godsbanen you can experience more than 400 events annually – concerts in our music venue, exhibitions, performances in the two theatres, markets, festivals etc. Or you can just hang out, enjoy a good dinner or a cup of coffee or take a walk on our rooftop with a spectacular view over the city – the architecture is worth a visit in itself.

Godsbanen is home to amongst others Theatre Katapult, the music venue Radar, the black box Åbne Scene, Aarhus Centre for Visual Arts, Aarhus Centre for Literature and more than 60 different cultural projects. A large number of external event makers also use Godsbanen for exhibitions, workshops, conferences, meetings etc.

Check it out godsbanen.dk

 

 

 

Kolding Kommunikation

Please welcome Kolding Kommunikation! We just designed a new website and created the illustrations for the communication company – simple, quick and fresh. We wish them all the best, and hope to do some interesting business together.

“Kolding Kommunikation helps your company or organization lift your social responsibility. Bringing you from challenge to strategy to communication and action.”

Check out the website on this link.

 

Food Photography Courses

Lower East, Malthe Ivarsson & Camillo’s Kitchen proudly present: Camillo’s Food Photography Courses!

4 intense days together with the team behind the cookbook from Camillo’s Kitchen; writer & chef Jørgen Smidstrup, designer & illustrator Helle Marietta and photographer Malthe Ivarsson.

The cookbook “Food, that makes people talk to each other”, that came out in September 2017 and again in a second print September 2018, has been a big success on the Danish market. The book is filled with recipes, stories and more than 175 photos – now the team behind the book wants to share the learnings from creating the book.

Get inspired, get playful, learn about lighting, camera techniques, tips and tricks – share your thoughts, ideas and dreams with us and the rest of team. Practice & create photos both in the studio and on location during the course.

We have planned three courses so far; April 25th-28th in Berlin, Germany, July 18th-21st in Tversted, Denmark and October 3rd-6th again in Berlin.

Come join four playful and creative days – sign up either for our studio/lab in Kreuzberg, Berlin or wonderful summerdays in Tversted by the North Sea coast in Denmark.

We imagine that you would love to improve your skills, boost your ideas, develop new “tasty” food photos – and extend your creative network. Maybe you are a food writer and blogger, or a photographer, a chef, a culinary professional – or simply just ready to take new steps into the world of delicious food photos.

The teaching will be in English (and in Danish if/when needed).

Bring your camera (most cameras will be sufficient for this workshop, the ability to manually control the cameras settings is however essential, the ability to photograph in any RAW-format is also preferable) and your laptop with a photo editing software (if you don’t have any editing software you can download the trial version of adobe lightroom, it’s free for one month).

 

The program

1. day
On the first day of the workshop we will start out with getting to know each other over a lovely breakfast and good coffee. We will present our cookbook and the work behind. The rest of the day will be spent getting a fundamental understanding of all the practical and technical aspects of camera and lighting techniques. The day will end with a small food photography assignment and will end with a dinner out in town.

2 & 3. day
The second and the third day will be more practical. We will start out both days with breakfast and a thorough, constructive critique on the photos you have created throughout the previous day(s). There will also be talks and discussions about; what makes a good food photography, how to get there and how we create atmosphere in our photos with storytelling, styling, props and colour. The rest of these two days will be filled with hands on food photography and assignments, both in groups and alone. The second day will end with a dinner in the Camillo studio, while the evening of the 3. day will be an evening off.

4. day
The fourth and final day of the workshop will be focusing on finalizing your work. On feedback and constructive tips and directions of your future photos. We will talk about digital editing and we will help you edit your best photos from the past three days. Finally, we will print the photos and make an exhibition in the studio – and celebrate with a final joyful dinner!

Prices and info
The price for the four days is DKK 8.500 (€ 1.150) per person.
Included in the price: the food, the breakfast, lunch and two of the dinners – and the three teachers. You take care of accommodation yourself.

We gladly help you with accommodation, in Berlin there are fine and cheap hostels, hotels and flats – and in Tversted there’s bed & breakfast, rooms and summer houses.

On our food photography courses there will be between 8 (minimum) and 12 (maximum) participants.

The locations
Lower East Lab Berlin, a design studio, popup restaurant, workshop space and the base of Camillo’s Kitchen – in a cosy backyard in the lively and very foodie Kreuzberg.
Tversted by the North Sea coast in Denmark, one of the most beautiful summer spots in the country up north. At an old school, now a lively cultural center.

Please feel free to sign up, and to write or call us for more information.
Jørgen Smidstrup camillo@camilloskitchen.com or +45 40636899

Hope to see you in April, July or October!
Helle, Malthe & Jørgen

Check out – and find the cookbook
camilloskitchen.com
lowereastlab.de

A Minor Detail

Lower East Lab are very happy to present:

A Minor Detail. Else Duedahl / Pen on Paper

Exhibition in Lower East Lab Berlin 20.02-14.04.2019
Exhibition opening Wednesday 20.02. 5:30 pm to 8 pm

Join the opening! See the event on facebook

Else Duedahl (born in 1948) is preoccupied with the notion of serial processes – with repetition and the simplification of complex forms. Often her minute attention to detail will echo certain shapes in the landscape that capture the eye during her frequent, almost ritual morning walks. Through the experience of nature structures find their way into the artist’s pocket: “For me, the act of putting a stone or a straw in your pocket is identical to planting a seed – simply by placing it in your pocket, where the hand brushes the object’s surface countless times during the day, it begins to grow. Consciously and unconsciously these structures, surfaces, lines and shapes grow directly into my art on the paper.” (Else Duedahl).

“As an observer I have the feeling of looking into a microscope.
I’m invited in to take a look behind the indefinable façade, into the matter of existence itself – and right there I am overtaken by this extremely fine intimacy.”
– Lotte Korshøj, Museum Director, Mag.art – and the curator of the exhibition.

Originally, Duedahl started working with the old-fashioned ink pen on the rough Fabriano paper as a form of self-chosen obstruction to distance herself from painting. In later years, however, it has become her primary mode of expression. Natural structures, studied for years, are encased in stringent lines on paper – in serial repetitions slightly displaced from paper to paper, artwork to artwork. The serial line and the recurring focus on specific structures and details is endlessly repeated, which, to those unfamiliar with Duedahl’s work, can make it seem inaccessible. But only until you patiently accept the premise of her art. Because when something is repeated often enough, focus is eventually diverted from the repeated act itself. All meaning is drained from the act, and in that void a space for reflection, vital for the artist, emerges.

Duedahl’s art not only presupposes such a space – it is identical to it. In the same way, we, as observers, can come to terms with the work’s repetitions and structural shapes by accepting it as something which can be emptied of meaning. We are then granted a unique opportunity of directing our gaze inwards, towards something larger.

With “A Minor Detail”, Else Duedahl displays her graphical line through pen on paper, serving us close-ups of nature’s façade and presenting us with an intimate glance into the very matter of existence.

New exhibition in the lab

Lower East Lab are very happy and very proud to present the Berlin based Colombian artist Camilo Toro with “Set the hare into a fight, the birds are gonna fly away anyway“. Come and disappear in the universe of magic realism paintings. Opening November 16th 5pm-8pm. The artist will be present, and do guided tours in the exhibition. The exhibition will be on show until Christmas snow hits the streets of Berlin.

On Saturday November 17th we will do a dinner in the exhibition “Camillo’s Kitchen vs Camillo Toro“. Sign up at camillo@camilloskitchen.com

 

“Magical Realism is the name
Latin American literature got.
It’s about to make no sense,
to mix whatever and give it sense.

Latin America is about mixing,
about forgetting the roots
and making something out of it.

It’s about keeping your roots,
while you preach someone else’s god.
You may want to let the hare fight
otherwise the birds are gonna fly away anyway
and if they do,
you won’t be able to set the fight.

It’s about speaking indirectly
this isn’t your language anyway,
you may want to sing,
it will make no sense anyway,
so keep your shoes tight
you may need to run.
don’t forget the ornaments,
they may keep you safe
from human eyes.”

Find the event on Facebook

 

 

Kurt Trampedach

3 new posters and 3 new postcards designed by Lower East for Kunsten. Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg – for the current exhibition about the danish artist Kurt Trampedach – Dark Encounters.

About the artist and the exhibition – from the museums website;
“When it comes to modern Danish art, Kurt Trampedach (1943-2013) is now considered something of a legend. Throughout his career he went his own way, with no regard for conventions or contemporary taste. With his original artistic language he made an early breakthrough at the start 1960s and quickly achieved international success.

The exhibition features an extensive selection of the artist’s most important works from the 1960s and 1970s, including self-portraits, sculptures and tableaux loaned from both Danish museums and private collectors.“

The exhibition will be on show until January 6th 2019.

 

Journey to lioness

We continue our series of breakfast talks in the lower east lab. This time our good friend, the Japanese artist Naho Iguchi come by the lab. The freshly made coffee and fresh baked bread will be on the table September 20th at 9:30.

“Journey to Lioness” is a framework for expressions by an artist, Naho, who thrives as a “Human Animal,” in order to reconnect to our environments: nature, cities, villages, and our inner worlds, all alike. Naho travels periodically to South Africa and spend time with lioness and the Lion Whisperer, who she considers as a role model of the Human Animal.

Come join us in her story-telling over morning coffee! Find out intentions of Journey to Lioness, get educated about wildlife and nature conservation, and motivated to go on a journey with her!

We at Lower East Lab host the event – we’ll give a short introduction to the world of Lower East and the Lower East Lab – you can also enjoy our current photo exhibition ‘today’s picture’ while you are here.

We are looking forward to seeing you in our lab!

Free entry – give us a sign if you want to join.

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Glass, fashion & fantasy

GLASS fashion & fantasy – the interesting summer exhibition at the danish Hempel Glass Museum – Lower East did the graphic design of the catalogue for the exhibition.

“With GLASS fashion & fantasy, the museum wants to explore how the special qualities of the glass, such as transparency, fragility, richness of colours and dangerousness can be transformed and be expressed through other materials and types of works. Hopefully, the visitors can also experience the direct as well as the indirect references to the glass media by exploring the works of the exhibition and in that way discover connections that offer new experiences of the museum’s permanent collections of ancient and present glass art.

A total of 11 artists and designers have accepted the museum’s invitation to use the idea of the exhibition as a basis to create works that participate in the challenging study of the fascination of glass as material, expression and narrative. HEMPEL Glass Museum is grateful for this kindness and most happy to be able to present a line of works that are using and interpreting glass in fabulous, poetic, unexpected and striking ways.“ Chairman Bodil Busk Laursen writes in the introduction to the exhibition.

 

“Glass Fascination“. The curator of the exhibition, danish designer Lennart Raaholt writes: “For thousands of years, glass has fascinated man. The earliest works of glass date back to Mesopotamia 3500 years before our time, and since then glass has been part of our lives in many ways. We decorate ourselves with glass, glass is a part of our household and in China, an entire road bridge of glass has recently been constructed. Glass possesses a magical, almost euphoric energy. In a liquid state compliant and flexible. But hardened glass is perishable and one has to be careful when it breaks. An item of glass can be something very concrete one minute, only to be split into thousands of pieces the next.“

The exhibition will be on show until September 30th 2018.

Check the museums website for more info, how to get there, other exhibitions and stuff.

The contributors to “GLASS fashion & fantasy”; Anne Damgaard, Anne Sofie Madsen, Cold Heggem, Frederikke Antonie Schmidt, Henrik Vibskov, Ivan Lee Mora, Katrine Ring, Lennart Raaholt, Maria Berntsen, Marianne Eriksen Scott-Hansen & Violise Lunn.

 

Summer postcards

A series of summer greeting postcards – designed & illustrated by our lovely intern Pi Bartholdy, who (for some strange reason) dived into the theme of fish and creatures from the past. We added text about us and our work to the postcards – and wish you all a wonderful summer!

 

 

we are extremely curious  We love to turn every stone, to dive one step deeper. If we find one good solution, we immediately start looking for the next, and if we come up with something very fantastic, we celebrate that it happened – and begin the search for even better stuff.

The Pygmy seahorse is the world’s smallest seahorse, around 20 millimeters ‘high’. It is also very, very good at camouflaging itself – so you have to search really, really good to find the little fella.

we also use feathers  No doubt, we have a Scandinavian background; less is more, white space and a calm attitude. But once in a while, it’s wonderful to make some noise, use many colors, to dress up – and have a lot of fun.

The Alvinella pompejana is a very flexible sea creature. It can withstand very high temperatures and also live in quite cold conditions. It has a beautiful fur, that works as isolation too.

we talk when needed  We listen carefully to clients, to partners, to young and old – and whatever voices there are around. We love the talks, the dialogues – and the exchange of ideas & thoughts.

The Pelican Eel’s most notable feature is the large mouth, much larger than the eel’s body. The mouth can be opened wide enough to swallow a fish larger than the eel itself.

we invite you in  The doors are open to our world of design & communication – of style, humour, lot of experience, creativity, fantasy and tons of good stories.

Meet the Helicoprion, with the nickname Buzzsaw Killer – story goes it has a 360-degree spiral of teeth, why, and what it used it for is a bit unclear. It looks like a shark, but is actually a very odd fish…

 

lower east explore

These days we are doing an Urban Safari in Berlin with students from the KaosPilots in Switzerland. They are here to get inspired, to develop new (business) ideas, to meet people, to explore Berlin, and to be together with their class mates. We arrange and facilitate parts of their week-long journey in the streets of Berlin.

Right now in this minute they are working in the Lower East Lab on, what if I can start my dream business here in Berlin; what would it be, who would be involved, and who would be my clients.

Here is a few impressions from the days – more to come.

 

Art posters

We designed a series of four posters for the exhibition “Vilhelm Lundstrøm og den gode smag“ (Vilhelm Lundstrøm & the epitome of good taste) at Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg, Denmark.

Here you can see all the posters – if you want to own one or more of these master pieces, you can buy them in the shop at the museums. You can also pay a visit to the museum – they will, among other exhibitions be showing the fantastic William Kentridge exhibition “The Refusal of Time“ from March 21th.

Check out the museum.

Breakfast talks

Breakfast talks in the lower east lab!

We are starting a new ‘thing’ in the lower east lab; breakfast talks. Now and then we will pop-up with morning gatherings  where we invite sweet and interesting people and projects to the lab. Invite for a coffee and a talk. For this debut we have on Wednesday February 21th our dear friends from Denmark; Culture Works in the lab.

We, lower east lab, will shortly present what we are doing in the lower east lab, plans and ideas for the future – and Culture Works will give an intro to their work. We will also touch what common interests we have, and why we are fascinated and inspired by each others work. From there we don’t know what will happen, maybe some Q&A, some sharing of dreams and reflections with guests showing up. We are looking forward to what you bring, what made you show up.

Give us a sign lab@lowereastlab.com if you want to join!

You can also let us know if you want to participate in further breakfast talks – and if you have projects, businesses or plans that could be a topic for the next breakfast talk.

 

Culture Works is an international cultural agency that creates concepts, brand activation and iconic events. The agency consists of all sorts of creatives from designers, engineers to writers and craftsmen. United by the love for culture and urge to create. From the offices in Aarhus and Copenhagen, they design and execute activations and brands all over Europe. But what really sets Culture Works aside from other creative agencies is the fact, that approx. half of the projects are their own. Like Creativity World Forum 2017 –  Europe’s largest conference on creativity in 2017, which gathered more than 2000 creatives from all over the world in a November cold Aarhus.

Check their website for more info.

 

Teaching & talking

We love to teach and talk about how to communicate! Last week the lower east core team went to the Danish island Bornholm to work with the students from the ceramics and glass programme at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. We met a group of dedicated students eager to learn – and exited to take new steps with their projects.

Our focus was to dress the students up to go out there and tell the world how great they are in what they are doing. We worked on how to on one side trusting your gut feeling and your intuition, and on the other side how to be disciplined, operate within systems and learn the needed communication tools. Also looking at how to find and develop your story and tell it – at the same time you still are developing your project and your art.

We were looking at different communication ‘platforms’; websites, facebook, blogs, instagram, postcards, business cards, handouts and all that jazz’. The students worked alone and in groups. We believe in working in teams, believe that what you don’t know some in your network may wan’t to help you with – we opened a lot of doors, talked about  a lot of opportunities – and left the island again… Now the students keep up the good work… Keep your ears and eyes open for that!

We’ll be back!

 

 

Words from the designer, Helle Marietta

 

“Food that make people talk to each other, Camillo’s Kitchen”,

written by Jørgen Smidstrup, designed and illustrated by Helle Marietta.

The Camillo cookbook project has been an amazing “con amore” project for Jørgen and me and a big part of our lives for the last years. While Jørgen (aka Camillo) has been developing all the recipes and writing the book, I have been developing the design and the illustrations for the book and the visual identity for the Camillo’s Kitchen universe. During this process we have been, walking, talking, discussing, eating, traveling in Italy, France, Denmark, Spain and Sweden to get inspired from food markets, people, restaurants and coffee bars, from taste, smell, colours, atmosphere etc. We have placed ourselves in creative work camps in various places – a small stone house in Tuscany, a family hotel in Florence, an artist recidency in an old wooden house in Stockholm, our friends’ summerhouses in Denmark and of course in our Lower East Lab in Berlin.

It is a big book. The format is 20 x 27 cm – it has 352 pages, 145 recipes, 175 photos, hardcover – your big, solid friend in the kitchen. The book is an invitation into the Camillo universe – a joyful combination of recipes, helpful tips and tricks, stories and essays, photos and illustrations. First edition in the Danish.

The design of the book
My keyword for the design was to reflect the vibe of Jørgens writing, which is very  warm, relaxed and inviting, personal and with a sense of humour – as is the case with the recipes and the food – relaxed, easy going and meant to create an open and warm atmosphere between people. It is logical, uncomplicated and easy to follow the recipes. My aim was to create a design that is modern and functional with a personal, inviting and cozy atmosphere and an open and warm feeling to it.

 

 

 

I combined a modern typeface, Trade Gothic, with my own handdrawn font – drawn in black ink – used for the cover illustration and for the chapter headlines throughout the book. The colour palette is black & white, dusty green, light pink and a tiny splash of red. The dusty green is the main colour of the Camillo visual identity – the pink is the colour of the Palermo football team jersey, and both the city and the team is part of our story and has a big place in our hearts.

To divide the twelve chapters in the book visually I created illustrations for the title pages of each chapter – hand cut, free style illustrations. I created black raster patterns with different dot density and used them as a “colour” palette from dark to light. I cut out a lot of different object, personal things – “family members” from our kitchen – plates, pots and pans, kitchen utensils, plants, furniture etc., with help from our intern Juliana Toro. I combined different elements for each illustration and placed them on a light pink checkered background, which can remind us of shelf paper from our grandmothers kitchen cupboards or a squared paper notebook inviting us to maybe make our own notes and additions. The blackness of the illustrations corresponds with the solid black ink of the handdrawn letters in the headlines.

 

 

 

 

 

Different kinds of content
The book contains different kinds of texts – introductions, recipes and essays. To make it easy to navigate in the book, the different types of pages have different design. The recipe-pages has a very functional design to make it easy to follow the instructions. The essays stand out by having a coloured “raster-dot” background – green when Camillo is writing, pink when the other contributors are writing, Erik Jensen, Elsebeth Gerner Nielsen and Tilman Grune.

The photos in the book is a mix of great food photos, black & white documentary photos from our kitchen taken by photographer Malthe Ivarsson and beautiful, evocative travel pictures taken by Jørgen during our many trips.

The food photos are shot in the Lower East Lab in Berlin. We styled them with our own things – porcelain, tableware, cutlery, glasses, pots and pans, tables, backgrounds, fabric etc.… everything collected during many years from travels, fleamarkets, inherited stuff etc. The food photo and styling sessions was a creative collaboration between Malthe, Jørgen and me together with our interns Juliana and Manne Mortensen.

The rhythm of the book
I wanted to create a rhythm throughout the book, which had a natural and playful “melody”. The book has a very strong visual apperance with many “players” – food photos, documentary photos, travel photos, illustrations combined with the different kinds of texts. I wanted to create a design where all the players had their space, standing strong by themselves as well as being strong together as a whole. Printing out the whole book during the process and spreading the pages out on the floor in the lab, moving them around, was helpful in finding a playful journey through the book creating variation, curiosity and balance.

The feeling of the book
Another important subject in book design is how the book “feels”, when you hold it in your hands. Is the book pleasant to touch? Does it feel good, when you turn the pages? Is it a book that you want to grap and get to know better?

The choice of paper fell on Munken Kristall Rough from Arctic Paper – an extraordinary beautiful paper. The uncoated, extra tactile surface and its highwhite shade make a perfect combination for well-defined images and a natural paper feel. Thanks to high bulk we could choose a lower grammage and keep thickness as well as paper stability for the best final result. For the cover we chose Geltex – a very durable paper, which can withstand more wear than conventional offset paper but still has the wonderful uncoated touch.

The natural feel of the paper corresponds with the whole idea of the book being inviting, informal and warm. With the uncoated paper a stain from your cooking can leave a trace on the paper. We think it is nice to have a few stains in your cookbook – it is your human touch and a sign of your book being used.

For the print of the book, we collaborated with the printing house Specialtrykkeriet ARCO, with whom we have done many projects – several high end art books for Danish art museums.

The result of all our work is a very personal book, which we are immensely proud of!

Please come by at our studio and take a look at the cookbook with us.

Or find it in one of our sales points in Denmark. See more here.

Read more about Camillos Kitchen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

La Biennale di Venezia 2017

Some beautiful, sunny and cold November days the Lower East delegation visited the Biennale in Venezia – enjoyed all the art, the pavilions, the Arsenale areal, and most of all the exhibition ‘Intuition’ in Palazzo Fortuny.

A wonderful experience to be surrounded by such fantastic art for days! At the same time we loved hanging out in Venezia with our interns Sussie & Juliana.

Thanks to La Biennale di Venezia! We’ll be back!

Some impressions from the art days:

Graphic stuff for the museum

For the Carl-Henning Pedersen & Else Alfelt’s Museum in Denmark we did the graphic stuff for the exhibition A Fabulous Encounter (Rencontre Fabulous in the French, and Eventyrlig Dialog in the Danish). The exhibition is a meeting and a dialogue between paintings of the CoBrA artist Carl-Henning Pedersen and the sculptures created by H.R.H. Prince Henrik. It was first on show at CCA Andratx at Mallorca. We designed the book for the exhibition – and for the Danish museum we also did posters, adds, invitations, banners, flags and graphic material in the exhibition.

A Fabulous Encounter will be on show at the museum in Herning until April 2018.

See examples of our work here – and check also the book under Our work at our website.

Check also the museums website here

Visiting Venice 2017

– As told by the Lower East Interns.

At our recent four days trip to Venice with our Lower East family – the agenda was as followed: Art Biennale, Italian food, more art, sightseeing and perhaps a Spritz to finish up the days (in respect of the local tradition, of course). A pretty good agenda if you ask us being the Lower East design & communication interns: Juliana (graphic designer) and Sussie (service designer).

Starting out with the international art exhibition Biennale Arte 17. The diverse art work and installations truly inspired and impressed. Wow moments to be remembered till next time (because there is definitely gonna be a next time): 

A favorite of Juliana was the exhibition in the Japanese Pavilion by artist Takahiro Iwasaki called “Turned Upside Down, it’s a Forest”. Huge wooden Japanese houses hanging from the ceiling making a mirrored landscaped in contrast with tiny thread sculptures. A highlight for Sussie was the third part of the Italian Pavilion by Giorgio Andreotta Calò called “Untitled – the end of the world”. A walk through a dark room of nothing but scaffolding, reaching the stairs and suddenly seeing futuristic waves in the air. This leaves the viewer a slightly bit disoriented but with a great wow moment when realising what is in front of them – a wooden ceiling is mirrored by a dark stillwater platform lifted by the scaffolding. Imagination is used as a tool to see beyond the visible.

 

Of course the Art Biennale was not enough for the four artsy Berliners – at the end of our third day we visited the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and the fourth day ended with the amazing, disruptive and beyond art conventions Palazzo Fortuny. We recommend you to go there whenever you visit the city on water.

In between all the amazing art exhibitions we had time for exploring the narrow paths and canals of Venice. The city is extremely beautiful, clean and with laundry hanging from one building to another. The touching silence and the wasted painting of the walls almost makes you feel like you are a part of a movie set. Specially when the sun falls down and only a few windows between cozy wine bars, trattorias and restaurants shows sign of life. Is Venice actually a truly authentic place, or instead an empty shell?

 

 

We did find authenticity, local laughter and a Spritz. We were strongly reminded of how amazing the Italian cuisine is when your are actually on Italian ground. Ravioli at Nevodi, seafood at Corte Sconta and the mozzarella at Osteria Mauro Lorenzon, yup free recommendations. If you did not notice, our bosses also happen to be the founders of Camillo’s Kitchen, so their soft spot for good ingredients and that local vibe became contagious.

 

As interns we feel lucky, happy and privileged to be invited to Venice – specially in the company of two creative, passionate and nice to the bone people like Jørgen and Helle – thanks for a lovely and inspiring trip!

Text & photos by Juliana Toro & Sussie Skaarup Stensnæs

 

More amazing pictures from the Art Biennale below:

Stuff happening in the lab

Last week we had the Node Center for Curatorial Studies in Berlin visiting the lower east lab for a one day film shooting.

Over and over again the hard working team did the scenes for the tutorial video – recording, sound, acting, light and the manuscript all came together during the day, and suddenly everything was done, and the crew left again.

Node Center is a e-learning program for curators and art professionals. Through real-time interaction with skilled lecturers, they provide practical knowledge that is often not available in the art academy or certain geographies. Their courses are designed to equip you with skills for use in real world and professional settings.

Wonderful to have sweet and creative people in the lab! Feel free to contact us if you are searching for a fine place for film or photo shooting in Berlin.

 

Gone fishing

For our ‘con amore’ project Camillo’s Kitchen we have created a poster with fish – illustrated by the creative Juliana Toro.
You find almost 40 different fish on the poster, and their names in english, danish, german, spanish and italian.

“Gone Fishing. Camillo’s Kitchen“ is the perfect kitchen or restaurant poster.
We have the posters in A3 and A1 format – if you want to buy a copy let us know.

See also www.camilloskitchen.com