News // 3 News by Katrin Funcke

featured by ART ACT : '¡Vamos Simbiosis! – Building a Partnership with the Sea through Arts and Science' – the artwork for the initiative for protection of the Mediterranean came from Katrin and Kristina c/o ART ACT 

We present you the posters here which were created as part of the kick-off event for the interdisciplinary project ‘¡Vamos Simbiosis! – Building a Partnership with the Sea through Arts and Science’ of the University of Heidelberg and LMU Munich.

The project is a think tank of artists and scientists in an attempt to find climate- and environment-relevant solutions that contribute to saving the eco-system of the Mediterranean Sea.

“I want to get you excited about the marine world. I believe that experience, science and storytelling will lead to a symbiotic partnership between us and the environment.” says founder Prof. Dr. Annika Guse, Heidelberg, cell biologist, coral symbiosis researcher, and diver.

“I believe that art could help to profoundly make urgent social issues tangible and that interdisciplinarity is the way to solve them.” Dr. Stephanie Guse, Vienna, artist and water lover, elaborates on the idea.

The posters were designed in cooperation with Katrin and Kristina c/o ART ACT. The integration of art to promote the communication of knowledge and science is an experimental part of the concept.

“Colors and scents, plants and animals, people and culture – the Mediterranean fills me with deep love and admiration. I would like to share this affection through words and images, so all of us will set out to protect this irreplaceable treasure.” says Kristina Heldmann, Berlin, illustrator, author, and nature lover.

GoSee : vamossimbiosis.orgart-act.de
31.01.2023 show complete article

 

featured by ART ACT : The ‘Reading Life Ink Lake’ – book illustrations by illustrator Katrin FUNCKE c/o ART ACT plus a selection of her conductor portraits for you on GoSee

Thrilling book illustrations in ink by Katrin FUNCKE c/o ART ACT for the book ‘The Reading Life Ink Lake’ by Giwi Margwelaschwili appearing at Verbrecher Publishing.

Giwi Margwelaschwili was born in 1927 in Berlin as the son of Georgian emigrants. His mother died when he was four years old. His father, who taught philosophy and oriental studies, was kidnapped together with his son by the Soviet secret service NKVD in 1946. His father was murdered, and Giwi Margwelaschwili was imprisoned in Sachsenhausen until he was later deported to Georgia, where he taught German throughout the rest of his life.

It was not until 1987 that he was allowed to leave for Germany along with his work written in German. He received German citizenship and an honorary scholarship from the President of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1994. In December 1995, Margwelaschwili was awarded the ‘Honorary Literature Prize of Brandenburg’ for his collected works and the Goethe Medal in 2006. He was a member of the P.E.N. Since 2011, he lived in Tbilisi again where he died on 13 March, 2020.

About the book : Is there a such thing as a Reading Life Ink Lake? There is according to the belief of a group of book people who embark on a journey to the Book Mountains to find the lake. Will they be able to see the tip of the nose of the author who sits bent over at his desk writing the story there in the Book World Sky? In the novel ‘The Reading Life Ink Lake’, the group is guided by a reader and wants to finally find out how they will all get their own book world life, their bibliobiography…

Also on GoSee : a selection of Katrin’s conductor portraits, created with a mixed technique of gouache and collage.

THE READING LIFE INK LAKE by Giwi Margwelaschwili, Hardcover, 384 pages, € 28.00 and ISBN: 9783957324948.

GoSee : verbrecherverlag.deart-act.de
22.02.2022 show complete article