Series: Summer Guests

For a whole summer artists are on a visit to Germany. Projects, ideas and impressions galore. And we get to meet them!

Episode 1: A South African on Sylt

We begin up north: on the wind-tossed island of Sylt, we catch up with artist Paul Emmanuel. Born in Zambia, raised in Johannesburg, South Africa. Emmanuel is waging a literal war with the island elements. His installation "The Lost Men," a memorial to men at arms, is so fragile that it won't outlast the Sylt storms for long. Still, the artist is having his fun: donning a fishing cap, he's enjoying herring sandwiches and taking in the wild and romantic island landscape on long bike tours.

Episode 2: Greek Video Artist Maria Zervou in the Waldberta Villa on Lake Starnberg

A woman fires a gun at butterflies - disrupting the peace and quiet on the shores of Germany's usually tranquil Lake Starnberg. That's what can happen when you let an artist loose in Germany for the summer. The woman's name is Maria Zervou from Greece - the second artist to feature in our Summer Guests series. She's been putting together her latest work, a video installation.

Episode 3: Experimental Dance in Potsdam

ARTS.21 heads to Potsdam to meet Nuno Lucas, a Portugese dancer and choreographer who is currently artist-in-residence at the Fabrik Potsdam.

Episode 4: Dialogue – In our Summer Guests Series, Israeli and Palestinian Musicians Get Talking

Violinist Tyme Khleifi is Palestinian. Cellist Noah Chorin is Jewish and from Israel. Both are members of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. We met up with them in Germany's Rhineland, and found they had more to talk about than just music.

Episode 5: Drumming in the Forest and on the Farm

She is listening to the sounds of nocturnal birds, cicadas and the rustling of the forest. The composer Meng-Chia Lin finds inspiration in the rural soundscape of a little village in Saxony. The young Taiwanese woman currently has a scholarship from the Denkmalschmiede Höfgen foundation.

Episode 6: French Video Artist Cyprien Gaillard

Concrete housing estates in Paris, demolition work in South Dakota, hooligan brawls in St. Petersburg - these and other subjects have been turned into astonishing videos by Cyprien Gaillard. ARTS.21 accompanied the French artist in Berlin on his search for new motifs and inspiration.

Episode 7: The Brazilian Artist Marcelo Gama at Schloss Solitude

Marcelo Gama’s theme is civil courage. His project as Artist in Residence at Schloss Solitude is an opera with sixty singers, performed in a square in Stuttgart. Gama is a dancer, actor, musician, and now director. We went to see his unusual opera production.

Episode 8: A Finnish Composer at Schloss Wiepersdorf

He composes New Music. His best-known work is a duet for two horns. The Finnish composer Juho Kangas has a 6-month stipend at Schloss Wiepersdorf, south of Berlin. Finnish horns now resound in the country house, which was the home of Ludwig Achim and Bettina von Arnim and is suffused with the spirit of romanticism.