Current Artist-Instructors:
Alma Sinai
Drawing From Observation, Anatomy & Figure Drawing, Portrait Drawing, Printmaking Workshops, Linocut & Monoprint
Alma Sinai is an interdisciplinary artist and educator, born (1989) and raised in Iran. She holds an associate degree in Cinema from the University of Art in Tehran. In 2010 she moved to the USA and pursued a BFA degree at RISD followed by an MFA at Parsons.
Sinai primarily works in printmaking, drawing, video and installation and she usually focuses on binaries such as absence & presence, indoor & outdoor, visible & invisible, and the space in between. Alongside that, repetition is one of the common aspects throughout her projects. In the process of recurrence in the print-motifs, patterns and looped video narratives with no exit points, meanings get lost, added and distorted.
She has had solo and group exhibitions internationally in venues such as Dastan Gallery, 009821 Projects, Slaturhusid Culture Center, Site:Brooklyn, International print center New York (IPCNY), University of Edinburgh and Pratt institute. Her works are included in the collections of Victoria & Albert Museum in London and Fondazione Imago Mundi in Treviso. Sinai has also attended residency fellowship programs including Vermont Studio Center, LungA School in Iceland. Sinai attended GlogauAIR residency program in 2021 and has been based in Berlin since then.
Juan-Carlos Rosa-Casasola
(Juancar/he/him) brings technical and conceptual
expertise to his workshops, fostering creative expression with enthusiasm and passion. He is an artist with international experience in transdisciplinary art projects focusing on visibility, diversity, and immersive experiences.
Juancar graduated with honors in Fine Arts from the Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain, in 2014 and later specialized in master’s programs in Art Production, Multimedia Art, and Creative Design. Since 2015, he has worked as a graphic designer for institutions such as the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, the Schwules Museum and communication agencies like Runze & Casper. His workshops aim to encourage creativity and exchange among participants.
www.juancarlosrosacasasola.com
Merav Leibküchler
Merav Leibküchler is a German-Israeli multidisciplinary artist currently based in Berlin, Germany. With a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) and a background in performing arts from the Matte Asher School for Performing Arts at Kibbutz Gaaton, Israel, her work seamlessly blends diverse creative influences.
Leibküchler’s artistic practice spans across painting, drawing, installations, and live performance, creating a dynamic body of work that has garnered international attention. Her work has been featured in prominent solo and group exhibitions at venues like ‘New Era’ in London, ‘Salondergegenwart’ in Hamburg, Galeria ARTA GRACA in Lisbon, the Volksbühne and Villa Grisebach in Berlin, and the Museum Fluxus in Potsdam.
Her accomplishments are reflected in numerous awards and scholarships, including the PArt-Fond of the Spiegelberger Foundation, project funding from DIS-TANZEN, the President’s Prize of the Berlin University of the Arts, and the Helmut Thoma Foundation for Painting. She has also been nominated for prestigious art prizes such as the Heise Foundation and the Eb-Dietzsch Prize.
Ali Fitzgerald
Ali Fitzgerald is an artist and writer living in Berlin. She is a regular contributor to the New Yorker as well as the New York Times. Her work has also been published in the Guardian, New York Magazine: The Cut, Modern Painters Magazine, McSweeney’s and elsewhere. Her art has been exhibited internationally, including the Haus am Luetzowplatz in Berlin, the Center for Book Arts in New York and the Austin Museum of Art.
In 2017 she was awarded the Cornish CCS fellowship at the Center for Cartoon Studies and in 2018 the Georgia Fee Residency with Artslant in Paris. In the Spring of 2018 she collaborated with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on a series of drawings about Magritte. In 2020 was a fellow at the Maison des Artistes in Angoulême, France.
Her graphic nonfiction book, “Drawn to Berlin,” about teaching comics in refugee shelters and Berlin’s evolving relationship to Bohemia and immigration was named one of the top ten comics of 2018 by New York Magazine:Vulture and received the Independent Publisher’s Award for Best Drawn Book of 2018.
She has conducted visual storytelling workshops at the National Library of Germany in Frankfurt, the University of Bath, Shakespeare and Company in Paris, Davidson College, and Grafill in Norway and is skilled at directing individuals along their own comic journey.
Artist-Instructors from past workshops:
Maximiliana Martiskova
Maximiliana Martiskova is a Berlin-based illustrator from Slovakia. She studied illustration in the Czech Republic and in Berlin. She is a girl scout and actively involved in ornithological circles, currently focusing on educational illustration to raise awareness about bird conservation and protection.
Merav Leibküchler
Merav Leibküchler is a German-Israeli multidisciplinary artist currently based in Berlin, Germany. With a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) and a background in performing arts from the Matte Asher School for Performing Arts at Kibbutz Gaaton, Israel, her work seamlessly blends diverse creative influences.
Tora Aghabayova
Tora Aghabayova is an Azerbaijani multidisciplinary artist based in Berlin. Formally trained as a painter with a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Azerbaijani State Art Academy. She also has over 13 years of teaching experience having taught at Azerbaijani State Art Academy, and Expat Learning Centre in, Shanghai, China.
Karina Rovira
Karina is a visual artist and analog photographer born in Florida to Puerto Rican parents. She holds a BFA in Photography from Savannah College of Art and Design and is currently based in Berlin. Karina works primarily with 35mm, 4×5 film and often carries a camcorder.
Ian Jehle
The Art and Science of Color
Ian Jehle is a Canadian artist and teacher based in Berlin and Washington DC. He is currently on the faculty at American University in Washington DC and previously was head of engineering at the construction firm P&J Arcomet. Jehle studied computer science, mathematics, philosophy and visual arts at American University, Kansas City Art Institute, Brandeis University and Columbia University.
Adèle Salaün Meuriot
Adele was born in Paris and graduated from the national superior school of Fine Arts in Lyon. Her artistic practice is based on the representation of light in painting, with a particular attraction for the work of chiaroscuro, and the reprsentation of intimate scenes. She studied the work of light in Persian pictorial works in Iran during her fifth year of study. Her work is nourished by cinematographic references and depicts people around her.
Oded Arad
Oded Arad is an Israeli artist, living and working from Berlin. He is an MFA graduate of Hito Steyerl’s class at the Berlin University of the Arts (UDK). The media he uses vary from painting, drawings, an experimental film that he writes, produces and directs. His works are mainly concerned with the themes of memory, the grotesque and humor, and have been exhibited in Germany, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands and Israel.
Julia Herfurth
Julia Herfurth is an artist and educator from Berlin. She works in the medium of traditional printing techniques, drawing, photography and site-specific installations.
Julia received her diploma from Bauhaus University Weimer and her MA from the Berlin University of the Arts. She has been involved in national and international exhibitions and art festivals in i.e. Berlin, Hamburg, Leipzig, Vienna, Istanbul and Melbourne.
Klara Hobza
Daily Drawing Meeting, Drawing Water Workshop
Klara Hobza is a Berlin-based artist who likes to pursue self-imposed, large-scale endeavors. Hobza received an MFA from Columbia University in 2005. Since then, she has been exhibiting internationally and has been awarded several prizes and fellowships including: Ars viva/BDI (Germany), Stiftung Kunstfonds (Germany), DIVA (Denmark), NYFA (NY) and SculptureCenter Prize (NY), amongst others. Hobza´s work has been reviewed by numerous print, online and TV media, including the New York Times, Artforum, art – Das Kunstmagazin, frieze magazine, Monopol, Architectural Digest, Modern Painters, Scientific American and Popular Mechanics.
www.klarahobza.com
Alisa Margolis
Alisa Margolis is an American painter whose work explores the intersection of the Baroque and a contemporary intuitive practice of picture making. Margolis was born in the Ukraine former USSR and was raised in New York City. She received her BA from Columbia University in New York (1997) and completed a postgraduate fellowship program at de Ateliers in Amsterdam. Her work has been shown internationally, such as the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Prague biennial, Renaissance Society, Chicago and the Triumph of Painting at the Saatchi Gallery, London. She has been the recipient of numerous grants, among others, Villa Romana fellowship, Florence, Italy, Akademie Schloss Solitude Residency Fellowship, Stuttgart, Delfina Studio Trust Artist Residency, and the de Ateliers fellowship grant.
www.alisamargolis.com
G Caruso
Sketchbook Practice Workshop, Figure Drawing Workshop, and more…
G Caruso is a traditional italian artist focused on studying and transmitting the knowledge and methods of old classical masters. After years of intense foundation work in the studio of Antonio Marroni, Italian artist preserving the tradition of the “Bottega d’Arte” with all its techniques, G graduated at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera di Milano, with a curriculum focused on figure, pedagogy and symbolism in art.
G Caruso taught at the Laboratorio Artistico of Milan for ten years before moving to Berlin and starting the collaboration with Berlin Drawing Room.
www.gcaruso.art
Anita Kroo
Creative Drawing, Mixed Media Drawing
Anita Kroo is a Hungarian visual artist currently based in Budapest. She received her first MFA in Painting at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts (2011). In 2015 she was awarded the Merit Scholarship of Pratt Institute, which enabled her to complete her second MFA in New York City (2017). She has received numerous grants, among others, the Hungary Initiatives Foundation Study Scholarship, The Artist Grant of The Hungarian Academy in Rome, The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Artist Award, the Pratt Circle Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement, and The Nerken Scholarship Award of the UJA-Federation of New York. Bordering on abstraction and figuration, her artwork consists of drawings, paintings, and intaglio prints.
www.anitakroo.com
Keegan Luttrell
Photo Transfer: Image and Memory
Keegan Luttrell is a multi-media artist originally from the United States, living and working in Berlin. She completed her MFA in sculpture at Mills College in Oakland, California in 2013 and graduated from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2008 with a BFA in Art History, Theory and Criticism and a concentration in Photography. She has shown works in San Francisco, Oakland, Brooklyn, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Aix-en-Provence, France, Geneva, Switzerland, Berlin, Germany and Athens and Santorini, Greece. Previously she taught art at an international boarding school in the Swiss Alps.
– Impressions from Photo Transfer Workshop on Berlin Drawing Room Blog
Olaf Kuhnemann
Olaf Kuhnemann is an Israeli German painter based in Berlin and Tel-Aviv. He Studied with Artist Zvi Lachman in Israel and is a graduate of the New York Studio School and of Parsons School of Design, (MFA) NY USA.
Kuhnemann has exhibited in galleries and museums in Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem, Berlin, Oldenburg, Bielefeld, London, Bregenz , Budapest , NY. He is the recipient of the Tel-Aviv Museum Isracard prize 2008 and was included in the Jurors pick for the Book 100 Painters of Tomorrow 2014. He was artist in residence at the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. He taught painting and drawing at the Midrasha School of Art and at Avni Institute in Israel 2003-2009 and has given artist talks and lectures at Bezalel Academy of art Israel, and at UDK, class of Leiko Ikumera in Berlin.
Matthias Wilkens
Botanical Expert, Prinzessinnengarten
Matthias is a botanical expert and head gardener at the Prinzessinnengarten.
Kristin Hensel
Kristin Hensel received her Diplom in design at the College of Art & Design Burg Giebichenstein Halle/ Saale. She is a lecturer in Fashion & Textile Design and a certified City Nature Guide in Berlin. She is a co-initiator of the Färberpflanzenbeetes (Dyeing Plants Garden) in the community garden Allmende-Kontor on Tempelhofer Feld in Berlin.
Kristin Hensel
Kristin Hensel received her Diplom in design at the College of Art & Design Burg Giebichenstein Halle/ Saale. She is a lecturer in Fashion & Textile Design and a certified City Nature Guide in Berlin. She is a co-initiator of the Färberpflanzenbeetes (Dyeing Plants Garden) in the community garden Allmende-Kontor on Tempelhofer Feld in Berlin.
Loren Britton
Loren Britton is an artist and curator based in-between Berlin, DE and New York, USA. Britton’s work explores the transformation of form via linguistic devices. Britton has exhibited their work in solo and group exhibitions in numerous arts institutions, galleries and artist run projects in Germany, Italy and in the United States. Britton is one of the head curators of the Queering Space Collective. Britton holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting & Bachelor of Arts in Art History from State University of New York at Purchase College, USA and an MFA in Painting & Printmaking from the Yale School of Art at Yale University, USA.