Leo Koenigsberg

art is a virus from the cosmos

I live and work in an old industrial area of Berlin, wich was the place where the German Electric Industry started, A E G.  This might be a forgotten Place, but here it is full of energy and that is what i need to make my artwork. 

My studio is placed midden of old factory buildings I live in the former battery laboratory house wich i developed in the beginning of 2003 together with berlin towngoverment, german state and europ. fonds.

in my neighborhood there are a lot of former factory's. the most of them are closed and that is what it makes it so exiting to me as an artist.

the smell and the sound of emtyness, mixed with the rest idea of former production and productive energy, it goes into me and break through in the transforming process of my artwork. 

music is an important part in my life and music inspires me and my art production.

since i was a child from 5 or 6 years, i always saw any kind of music in colors and later the symphonies became colorful landscapes in my mind.

i was inspired first of all by wolfgang a. mozart, gustav mahler, anton bruckner and later of the russian composers segej rachmaninov  and later a few others. In the 80ties was it john cage, lary anderson and steve reich.

aswell there was a few writer like jack kerouack, charles buckowsky, allen ginsbourg and william bourrouse and then the wonderful bob dylan and later tom waits.2

it all influenced my work and the fascination of waste lands gives distinction to my work as an artist.

the most interesting thing for me is in such a transforming process when nature start to destroy and takes back all buildings in there own system of life and organic structures.

my paintings open a window and you become a citizen of my world of light, colors and transparence. just fly .........