Schloss Wiepersdorf

GEDOK Brandenburg in Wiepersdorf

Group fellowship in Wiepersdorf

Eight artists packed up their instruments, brushes, paint, pencils, paper and modeling clay and set off in July from very different corners of Brandenburg and Berlin. To mark the 30th anniversary of GEDOK Brandenburg (Community of women artists and art patrons), they took part in the first of two group scholarships at Schloss Wiepersdorf.

Here they provide an insight into their work processes during the group scholarship.

Imke Rust: ‘Ten days, eight strong artists and plenty of space and opportunity to exchange creative ideas in this wonderful and inspiring place. What a gift.’

Annette Paul created a replacement for the lost sixth dwarf figure and engaged the figures in the roundabout in a dialogue by means of a poem and a story about a stolen egg.

She also practised moving observation of the art work of the eight artists present in a performance with a small footstool.

Kaj Osteroth: ‘In search of ghosts - those from the region, somehow familiar or related to the place - I found Maxie Wander and her 19 protagonists.’

Jana Franke: ‘ ... I'm about to be expelled, arrested and fined. Where do you get that! A stranger unplugs the floor lamp, connects her PC and sits down on Bettine's chaise longue, directly on the curved time. The spinet makes no comment. A spiral arches out of the wooden frame on the canapé in front of the piano. A tribute to resilience. Being possessed for hundreds of years softens any steel mesh. The piano grins broadly. It has turned up its upper lip. I can see all the key teeth in front of me, true to line. I have never seen a piano grin so unabashedly. It's almost cheeky, the kind of cheeky thing Bettine said about the Vulpius in the Frauenplan. ‘Die Blutwurst’, that was the end of my relationship with the Privy Councillor ...
I stand barefoot on the wooden parquet and nobody calls the police ... ’

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