The mural in the Darnyzja district of Kiev. Holger Weißflog, Veit Tempich and Jakob Bardou worked on the house wall for five days in September Photo: innerfields
By Julian Loevenich
War has been raging in Ukraine for almost ten months. Ten months of suffering, destruction, loss. The Berlin artist collective innerfields, consisting of Jakob Bardou (32) and Holger Weißflog (43), paints on the other hand! Oversized on a house wall. In the middle of Wedding on Wiesenstrasse.
The motif: A woman in traditional Ukrainian clothing hugging a human silhouette with an arrow stuck in the back. The work is called “absent”. Creator Bardou: “We want to symbolize: war means loss.” You should stumble across your work, “it should create a feeling.”
The plant in Berlin on Wiesenstraße in Wedding on the facade of a Gewobag building. “We want to symbolize: War means loss,” says the artist Photo: Christian Lohse
In 2016, the two had already mirrored the same picture on a house wall in Kyiv. The name: “present”. Bardou: “We have a project with the Hans-Riegel-Foundation and they absolutely wanted to have the mural in Berlin.” Gewobag provided a house wall.
But it is very popular in the graffiti scene. “We know that,” says Bardou. The lower edge has already been sprayed over – this is how the mural would be told. It should stay forever.