•„The BOAT of JOY & LOVE“, Lili & Jesko 2022
for BERLIN ART WEEK 14.-18.9.2022 @ MaHalla
20 m long x 3 m wide x 12 m high
wooden up cycled boat skeleton, pink paint, turquoise leeboards & oars, orange ropes, Children Action Painting Dhow Sail Lamu/Kenia & Children Action Painting Canvas India!1.8m x 10m
During BERLIN ART WEEK,September 2022, the Art Festival „HUMAN ELECTRICITY“ took place at MaHalla. Since 2020 MaHalla is an art project which has been revitalising the old factory halls of one of Germany's oldest power plant in Berlin-Oberschöneweide. Originally built in 1890, it was used to provide electricity to Berlin. The impressive 3000 square meter turbine hall has a 12-metre high ceiling, it’s historical patina is visible throughout.
!Curated by Dr. Almut Hüfler & Ralph Schmerberg, a multicosm of artists, musicians and performers came together on 7000 m2 for the second time to celebrate art and connection with the audience for five days and nights. Electricity is flowing energy — it’s everywhere, even in our bodies. Our cells are specialized in conducting electric currents. Without electricity, we couldn’t move, think or feel. For energy to flow, there needs to be some kind of connection, within our cells, and also in the social organism. The title for this year was RE:CONNECT. The artists took the building’s history as a metaphor and aimed to generate energy and light of inspiration for the visitors who arrived.
For Lili & Jesko the feeling of Joy & Love is the most beautiful emotional flow, energetic exchange, connection/reconnection, so to speak „Human Electricity“. To indulge oneself into moments of Joy & Love is highly energizing and a beautiful way of recharging human batteries. Joy, glittering sparkle of the gods — the spark of joy transports
beyond — boundless joy.
Lili & Jesko’s contribution for „HUMAN ELECTRICITY — RE:CONNECT“ @ MaHalla has been a 20 m large scale sculpture — a free,wild quote of a boat — „The Boat of Joy & Love“ — a wooden boat skeleton colored in pink — pink as an electrifying, energizing color of Joy & Love — which attracts attention and connection and symbolizes love.
Already since many years, the boat is a recurring motif in Lili & Jesko’s art work — as well as in their paintings and sculptures. — For Lili & Jesko, the boat — the most ancient transport vehicle of mankind — is a symbol of existence moving through time and space, a floating timeless sculpture which connects people, islands, continents, South & North, East & West, since 1000’S of years — a metaphor for connection/reconnection — get everyone on board — floating in balance— even transporting us beyond life...
The artist couple constructed the wooden boat skeleton out of up cycled elements. Lili & Jesko’s environments are often created out of up cycled objects, on which time left its traces, thus they are giving things a new existence, reconnection.
For Lili & Jesko, their „Boat of Joy & Love“ is simultaneously Boat & Island — the boat deck, can be used as well as a stage and an area to dream & rest — „The Island of Dreams“ — an area of 7m x 2.5 m covered with beautifully painted boards. The ornaments on theses boards, found by Lili & Jesko in stilt house monasteries on the Inle Lake, while traveling in Myanmar. These Monasteries are surrounded by endless water
landscapes — islands of stillness — if people are confused they often wish themselves on an island to reconnect in stillness with their innermost self.
!The huge sail, which Lili & Jesko combined with their large-scale wooden boat skeleton, is a 10m high painted Dhow Sail. It was created with Children in Lamu, Kenya during their Children Action Painting Project as artists in residence.
!At the end of their Action Painting Project, a group of children took off on two ancient sailing boats — traditional dhows — with sails made from their huge Action Painting canvasses. Over the Lamu channel the children cruised, with their paintings flapping brightly above them; images of cars, helicopters, stars and hearts flying through the air, like dreams thrown to the wind.
!Lili & Jesko’s Children Action Painting Project generates a constant exchange of boundless joy between all participants. Through this project initiative, which took place in Africa, India & Italy, they got everyone on board, providing an opportunity
for expressing creativity and poetry. Their satisfaction was beyond words when they saw how enthusiastic all of the children were that participated in the project. Girls and boys are creating equally, physically challenged and not painting together. This is very helpful for the prevention of violence by bringing the group together, supportING group spirit and encouraging self-confidence and strengthening their creativity. thus providing a positive constructive venue for bonding through working together on a creative project that is inclusive for all in their own unique capacity.
Lili & Jesko love to work for the flower as artists, for the better being, the beauty, for the positive, to inspire others, recharging their batteries, giving a moment of joy. Although they have experienced violence and agony, they believe in the power of love, joy, peace, freedom and beauty — transforming negativity into positivity — moving from darkness to light — to get something blossoming is their deepest wish.
!Artist Bio: !
Lili & Jesko live in Berlin & Hamburg.
Since 1990 they work as an Artist Duo/Artists in Love.
*1966 and *1968 in Hamburg.
Sculptor assistance France, Carpenter Apprenticeship, Studies of Fine Arts & Design HFBK Hamburg & Fine Arts Florence/Italy.
Numerous travels and Artist in Residency among others in India, Himalaya, South East Asia, Latin America, Africa.
Children Action Painting Projects in India, Africa & Italy.
Environmental installation „Personal Structures“, Palazzo Bembo, 56th Biennale Venezia 2015.
Lili & Jesko have traveled the world seeking inspiration from other cultures. Their collected impressions are transformed into paintings, sculptures, wall hangings and short
films – whole buildings they transform into artistic landscapes. The boat, the most ancient transport vehicle of mankind — a symbol of existence moving through time and space — which connects people, islands, continents — appears in many different layers, forms and perspectives in their art work, as well as the theme of Time Space Existence. Transforming negativity in positivity is the ambition in all of their art works — to get something blossoming is their deepest wish.
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-THE BOAT OF JOY & LOVE-, Lili & Jesko 2022
Für DIE KUNSTSCHEUNE @ VICTOR’S FARMHAUS
12 m lang x 1,8 m breit x 4 m hoch, Bootsskelett aus Holz, rosa Farbe, türkisfarbene Trittbretter & Ruder, orangefarbene Seile,Kinder Action Malerei Leinwand Indien 1.8m x 10m
🐄 VOM KU’DAMM - BERLIN LUXURY STORE @maybachboutique - ZU EINEM ALTEN KUHSTALL (KUHSTALL) - AUF DER PENINSULA BENUTZT - SEIT 33 JAHREN, LILI &
🐄JESKO LIEBT ES, DIE UNTERSCHIEDLICHSTEN VERANSTALTUNGSORTE ZU VERWANDELN
Nach der BERLIN ART WEEK @MaHalla erhielten Lili & Jesko die Anfrage, mit ihrem MaHalla "THE BOAT OF JOY & LOVE" in der "Kunstscheune" auf dem "Bauernhof Maison Victor", einem versteckten magischen Kleinod auf der Halbinsel Usedom, vor Anker zu gehen. Michélle & Joa Adamski & Marisol Cour... sind die wunderbaren Besitzer von "Maison Victor Farmhouse" - einem Ensemble aus vier Gebäuden rund um einen Vierseitenhof - das eingebettet ist in die wunderschönen saftigen Wiesen des Lieper Winkels, ganz in der Nähe des Naturparadieses Achterwasser/Backwater - einer Lagune, die eine Bucht am Peenestrom bildet, der in die Ostsee mündet. Die natürliche Umgebung hier ist zu jeder Jahreszeit ein wunderschönes, magisches, gesegnetes Reich.
Die besondere Herausforderung für Lili & Jesko war diesmal der Umgang mit der "Kunstscheune", die als ehemaliger Kuhstall absolut keine ebene Fläche wie in der alten Industriehalle der MaHalla Berlin hat. Aber ihr "THE BOAT OF JOY & LOVE" hat die Fähigkeit, sich wie ein Chamäleon zu verwandeln - die Fähigkeit, auf jeden neuen Ort zu reagieren, ihn zu umarmen und sich in einem magischen, maßgeschneiderten Gewand anzupassen!!! So schufen Lili & Jesko ein völlig neues "THE BOAT OF JOY & LOVE" aus den demontierten, upgecycelten Elementen des MaHalla "Boot der Freude und Liebe". Ihre Environments entstehen oft aus upgecycelten Objekten, an denen die Zeit ihre Spuren hinterlassen hat, und geben so den Dingen eine neue Existenz.
Ihre Children Action Painting Canvas, dieses Mal aus Indien, wurde in ein poetisches Vordach über dem Bootsdeck verwandelt. Das Bootsdeck wiederum kann sowohl als Bühne als auch als Raum zum Träumen und Ausruhen genutzt werden - "Die Insel der Träume" - die Fläche von 6,4 m x 1,6 m ist wieder mit der schönen Sammlung von bemalten Brettern bedeckt. Die Ornamente auf diesen Tafeln haben Lili & Jesko auf ihren Reisen durch Myanmar in Stelzenhausklöstern am Inle-See gefunden. Diese Klöster sind von endlosen Wasserlandschaften umgeben - Inseln der Stille - wenn Menschen verwirrt sind, wünschen sie sich oft auf eine Insel, um sich in der Stille mit ihrem innersten Selbst zu verbinden.
Am Silvesterabend 2022 schipperte ihr verwandeltes "THE BOAT OF JOY & LOVE" zum ersten Mal mit einer Gruppe wunderbarer, glamouröser Freunde durch Zeit und Raum ins Jahr 2023. Sie alle feierten das Soft Opening von Lili & Jesko's "Boat of Joy & Love" Environment in "The Art Barn" in "Victor’s Farmhouse".
In den kommenden Wochen werden Lili & Jesko den kompletten ehemaligen Kuhstall in ein Gesamtkunstwerk verwandeln. Bleiben Sie dran, denn die nächsten Veranstaltungen werden bald bekannt gegeben! In der Zwischenzeit, wenn Sie in den nächsten Wochen auf der Halbinsel Usedom sind, kontaktieren Sie bitte Lili & Jesko im Voraus, sie könnten eine private Besichtigung für Sie arrangieren!
Das schöne alte Herrenhaus - eines von vier Gebäuden "Victor’s Farmhouse" - öffnet im März 2023 seine Türen als Gästehaus. Mehr Informationen über Victor’s Farmhouse, die Wohnungen und die Buchung finden Sie hier: maisonvictorfarmhaus.com
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•„The BOAT of JOY & LOVE“, Lili & Jesko 2022 !
for THE ART BARN @ MAISON VICTOR FARMHAUS
12 m long x 1.8 m wide x 4 m high
wooden up cycled boat skeleton, pink paint, turquoise leeboards & oars, orange ropes,
!Children Action Painting Canvas India 1.8m x 10m
🐄 FROM KU’DAMM — BERLIN LUXURY STORE @maybachboutique — TO AN OLD KUH STALL (COW SHED) — ON THE PENINSULA USEDOM — FOR THE PAST 33 YEARS, LILI &
🐄 JESKO LOVE TO TRANSFORM THE MOST DIVERSE VENUES
!After BERLIN ART WEEK @MaHalla, Lili & Jesko received the request to set anchor with their MaHalla „Boat of Joy & Love” at „The Art Barn“ at „Maison Victor Farmhouse“, a hidden magical gem on the Usedom peninsula. Michélle & Joa Adamski & Marisol Cour... are the wonderful owners of „Maison Victor Farmhouse“ — an ensemble of four buildings around a four-sided courtyard — which is embedded inside the beautiful lush meadows of Lieper Winkel very close to the natural paradise Achterwasser/Backwater — a lagoon forming a bay on the Peenestrom river, which flows into the Baltic Sea. The natural surroundingS here are in every season a beautiful magical blessed realm.
!For Lili & Jesko, the special challenge this time has been dealing with „The Art Barn“ which as a former cowshed has absolutely no flat surface like in the old industrial hall at MaHalla Berlin. But their „Boat of Joy & Love“ has the ability to transform itself like a chameleon — the skill to respond to, embrace, and adapt to every new venue in a magical made to-measure robe!! So Lili & Jesko created a completely new „Boat of Joy & Love“ out of the dismantled up cycled elements of the MaHalla „Boat of Joy & Love“. Their environments are often created with up cycled objects, on which time left its traces, thus giving things a new existence.
!Their Children Action Painting Canvas, from India this time, has been transformed into a poetic canopy above the boat deck. The boat deck, again can be used as well as a stage and an area to dream & rest — „The Island of Dreams“ — the area of 6.4 m x 1.6 m is again covered with the beautiful collection of painted boards. The ornaments on theses boards, found by Lili & Jesko in stilt house monasteries on the Inle Lake, while traveling in Myanmar. These Monasteries are surrounded by endless water landscapes — islands of stillness — if people are confused they often wish themselves on an island to reconnect in stillness with their innermost self.
!On New Years Eve 2022, their transformed „Boat of Joy & Love“ navigated for the first time, with a group of wonderful glamorous friends, through time & space into 2023. They all celebrated the Soft Opening of Lili & Jesko’s „Boat of Joy & Love“ Environment inside „The Art Barn“ at „Maison Victor Farmhouse“.
!During the upcoming weeks, Lili & Jesko will be transforming the complete former cow shed into a Gesamtkunstwerk. Stay tuned as the next events will be announced soon! In the meantime, if you are around in the upcoming weeks on the
Usedom Peninsula, please contact Lili & Jesko in advance, They just might arrange a private viewing for you!
!The beautiful old Manor — one of four buildings at „Maison Victor Farmhouse“ — open its doors as a guesthouse in March 2023. More Information about Maison Victor Farmhouse, the apartments and the booking you will find here: maisonvictorfarmhaus.com
Liebe Gäste, liebe Freunde, anbei findet Ihr zwei Beschreibungen (engl.dt) für ein wunderschönes Projekt der beiden Künstler Lili & Jesko (Projekt: Oktober2022-November 2024). Wir freuen uns auf alles was folgen wird und arbeiten an der Umsetzung einiger Ideen. Vielen Dank liebe Lili, lieber Jesko, für Eure unermüdliche traumhafte Arbeit!