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MOMENTUM AiR
Samuel Zeller // Fritz Strempel // Maximilian Brunn //
Heyon Han // Leon Leube
Corona Creatives Residencies
1 May – 23 November 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic, by its very definition, has affected us all worldwide. The first case was recorded in Germany in January 2020, and the first lockdown began in Berlin in March. With travel bans, institutional closures, and an overall sense of uncertainly prevailing, many artists and curators in Berlin were caught between projects and between homes. While MOMENTUM’s scheduled Residency program was on hold due to pandemic travel restrictions, it has been our pleasure to open our program to the local Berlin art community, and to provide an interim home and work place for artists, curators, designers, and architects.
Leon Leube
1 May-15 July 2020
Leon Leube is a German-Filipino artist born in 1992 in Nürnberg, Germany. From 1995 – 2010 he lived in Baguio City and Boracay Island, Philippines. In 2018 he received a Meisterschüler degree at the Academy of Fine Arts Nürnberg from the sculpture class of Prof. Michael Stevenson. Since 2019 he has been living and working in Berlin. Recent exhibitions include The Days Are Just Packed at THE POOL Istanbul, Public Relations Poetik öffentlicher Kommunikation im Spiegel aktueller Kunst at Stadtgalerie Kiel, and Heavy Metal: Erntedank at Kunstpalais Erlangen.
Heyon Han
1 May-15 July 2020
Heyon Han (Born on 22. April 1985 in Busan, Republic of Korea) is a studio based artist, currently living and working in Berlin, Germany. She finished her Fine Art Bachelor at Hongik University, Seoul, Korea, and received a Meisterschuler degree from Prof. Michael Stevenson at the Akademie der Bildende Künste in Nürnberg.
Her multi-disciplinary practice begins with rapid problem-solving technologies and attempts to translate them into materiality. Her interest is to lay bare uneven innovation, by the collaboration of digital culture and real life objects that share in the joy and fear of capitalism.
Samuel Zeller
1 July – 30 September 2020
Geneva and Berlin based Swiss photographer Samuel Zeller (b. 1990, Geneva) approaches his subjects as a well-defined collection of elements he sorts, orders, removes and composes with. Influenced by his previous career in design and by his artist parents, his work is often very disciplined. The rules and principles he created through the years are directing his compositions but that’s his sensitivity that has the last say.
His fine art work is represented by ONE FOUR gallery, Seoul. He’s a member of the Stocksy co-op. He’s also a Swiss ambassador for Fujifilm cameras (X-Photographer).
Fritz Strempel
14 September – 15 November 2020
With a critical mind to the challenges of our time, Fritz Strempel work across the fields of Art, Design, and Science as a Founder, Advisor and Art Director for design and innovation projects. Fritz’s companies and engagements and partners together with build meaningful brands, multisensory technology, and innovation-driven art projects. What binds this interdisciplinary work together is Fritz’s passion to ask the most pressing questions of our time and respond with meaningful, concrete and future-minded ideas.
Maximilian Brunn
30 September – 23 November 2020
Maximilian Brun is a Graphic & UI/UX designer with 5 years of branding experience. He has acquired exceptional skills at visualizing and executing ideas through training as fashion designer. Maximilian has been lived in Japan from 2016-2020 co-creating and evolving the brand identity of two startups from scratch.