Meet The Artists

Irene von Alberti, born in Stuttgart, studied media technology while also working as a camerawoman and camera assistant, and subsequently studied at the University of Film and Television in Munich. Today she is a director, screenwriter, and producer based in Berlin. Her films deal with socio-political issues from various genre perspectives.

In Los Angeles, Irene von Alberti will be working on a screenplay about migration. The script will tell the interwoven stories of people who want to emigrate from the so-called “First World” to poorer countries in order to escape various real or imagined threats.

Selected Filmography
2024 | Protected Men, feature film (screenwriter and director)
2017 | The Long Summer of Theory (screenwriter and director)
2008 | Tangerine, feature film (screenwriter and director)
2006 | Maroc en vogue, short documentary for 3Sat (screenwriter and director)
2005 | City as Prey – Berlin Stories, anthology film (screenwriter and director)

Selected Awards
2024 | PÖFF Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival – Best Film in the Rebels with a Cause competition for Protected Men

Jeewi Lee, born in South Korea, has lived and worked in Berlin since 2008. Lee studied Fine Arts and Art in Context at UDK Berlin and Hunter College in NYC. In her site-specific spatial installations, sculptures and picture series, she mainly deals with traces by thematizing the past, presence and absence. The trace bears witness to time and at the same time reflects its history
and its own production process. In her installations and paintings, the trace exists as a remnant of the past, a visual allegory for lived experience, place, and memory.

Jeewi Lee will explore the history of the diaspora – of migrants who leave their homeland in search of a new home and a better future, and the consequences of this decision. In particular, she wants to explore the history of Korean Americans by interviewing Koreans with a migration background in
the L.A. region and artistically engaging with the everyday objects they brought from their home country.

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023 | Palimpsest, Segmente des Wiederbeschreibens, Deutsches Architektur Zentrum DAZ, Berlin
2021 | junger westen – Solo Position, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen
2021 | Vor•wurf, Sexauer Galerie, Berlin
2020 | re-, Kunstverein in Hamburg

Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 | Into the Woods, Kunsthaus Wien, Klima Biennale Wien
2023 | Indigo Waves and Other Stories, Gropius Bau, Berlin
2023 | So it appears, Institute for Contemporary Art, Richmond, Virginia
2021 | Scratching the Surface, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum der Gegenwart, Berlin

Selected Awards
2023 | Albers Foundation Residency, Bethany, Connecticut
2021 | Art Prize “junger westen,” Recklinghausen
2020 | Working Grant, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn
2020 | Thread Residency, Josef & Anni Albers Foundation, Sinthian, Senegal
2020 | Working Grant, CAA Berlin
2018 | Villa Romana, Florence

Aisha Franz is a freelance comic artist and illustrator based in Berlin. She studied Visual Communication with a focus on illustration and comics at the Kunsthochschule Kassel, where she later also taught as a lecturer. Her work oscillates between narrative drawing, experimental comics, and visual observations of everyday life. In addition to her artistic practice, she regularly teaches and mentors at universities in Germany and abroad, including Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle, and Sint Lucas Antwerpen. Together with the Berlin-based print studio Colorama, she runs “Clubhouse,” an international residency and publishing project that supports experimental comic artists.

Aisha Franz's project is a graphic novel about the tension between the biological clock and artistic self-realization as well as the urge for self-optimization.

Selected Publications
2024 | Mantequilla (Spanish), Apa Apa Comics
2024 | Drei aus der Zukunft, Reprodukt
2022 | Work-Life-Balance, Reprodukt
2020 | Das Jungfernhäutchen gibt es nicht, Maro Verlag
2018 | Shit Is Real, Drawn & Quarterly
2011 | Alien, Reprodukt

Selected Awards
2022 | Max & Moritz Award for Work-Life-Balance
2020 | Working grant from the Berlin Senate (Comics)
2019 | Shortlisted for the L.A. Times Book Award for Shit Is Real
2012 | Sondermann Award for Young Artists