LOOK AT ME

Niklas Apfel is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist with a focus on graphic design and installation. His work exists in the tension between applied graphic design and fine art, where individual disciplines often blur into one another. The abstracted and transformed representation of figures, sceneries, and typography characterizes his artistic approach. Currently, Niklas Apfel is increasingly engaging with spatial works in the form of inflatable figures. His work follows an experimental, cross-genre approach that brings together elements from different disciplines.

Collective Blitzbereit is a Berlin-based group creating body-based performances – in Berlin and anywhere they’re invited.
Their work explores human connections: personal relationships as well as social dynamics, intimacy as well as inequality. They constantly question the role and position of female-read bodies in society.
Using their own bodies as material, they create strange, powerful imagery – leaving the storytelling up to the audience. Their performances break away from traditional stage formats and often turn the audience into part of the stage design – which also happens to be more budget-friendly than building a set.
They are shameless yet sensitive – and no eye is ever left dry.

In their latest collaborative project "Look at Me," Niklas Apfel and collective Blitzbereit examine self-exploitation and the artist’s struggle for visibility in a world saturated with digital information.

photo credit:
©Ida Weber
©Lea Hopp