Drawn Conversations
Using coloured pencils, felt-tip and ball-point pens, and other drawing media the three artists create complex “drawn conversations” akin a musical jam session. Every single sheet of the entire installations is a drawing made by the three of the artists. Collaborative Drawing means that the artists are forced to interact with the lines and patterns of the others, to improvise, and to add individual variations to the main theme. In their collaborative drawings the artists emphasise visual dialogue over personal technique. Individual styles merge and intercept, contrast and complement each another, creating an illustrated refrain at once unified and unique.
By now the artists have created six room-filling, collaborative installations: OSORNO (2006-7), HENGILL (2009), OLOT (2011), QUEDLINBURG (with Juliane Laitzsch, 2012), HOMBROICH (2014) and LOOSE (2017/18) All these collaborative installations are composed of numerous matching single pieces of paper. The drawing grows over the borders of one single sheet and can basically be expanded endlessly.
Anke Becker, Veronike Hinsberg and Inken Reinert met in the early nineties at art school in Berlin, Germany. They are collaborating on multiple artistic and curatorial projects ever since.
HOMBROICH | collective work by Anke Becker, Veronike Hinsberg and Inken Reinert | drawing on paper | 2014
The three artists were guests at the Museum Island Hombroich „Raketenstation“ for a week, working on a large joint drawing entitled HOMBROICH.
L O O S E | collaborative drawings with Veronike Hinsberg and Inken Reinert | installation, mixed media on paper | each sheet 42,00 x 59,40 cm | 2017/18
These collaborative drawings were created in the winter of 2017/18 on a remote "Loose" farm in the East German countryside, the Oderbruch - close to the Polish border. Exhibition view: Pavillon am Milchhof Berlin, September 2018 (Photos: Jochen Wermann)
QUEDLINBURG | collaborative work with Veronike Hinsberg, Inken Reinert and Juliane Laitzsch | drawing on paper (ink, pencil, crayon) | work in process | 2012
The four artists were guests in the “House of the Union of Cities” in Quedlinburg for 10 days, where they worked on a joint project, a graphic exploration of the medieval city of Quedlinburg. The result has been installed in an empty storefront in the city center.
OLOT | collaborative drawing with Inken Reinert and Veronike Hinsberg | mixed media drawing on paper | 2011
HENGILL | cooperative drawing with Veronike Hinsberg and Inken Reinert 2,50 x 3,00 m, total size | drawing and collage on paper | 2009
Exhibition view at oqbo Berlin, 2009
OSORNO | cooperative drawing with Veronike Hinsberg und Inken Reinert | 3 blocs of 49 sheets each | 29,70 x 41,90 cm per sheet | each bloc 2,90 x 2,00 m total size | drawing and collage on paper | 2006 - 07 | exhibition view: blütenweiss - Raum für Kunst | 2007