germany - Friends of Friends / Freunde von Freunden (FvF)

During coronavirus lockdown, Sebastian Wolf focused his lens on the rural beauty of his South German hometown

“As you become older you develop a different perspective on life. You begin to cherish all the things that you...

Frankfurt’s restaurants reimagined with culinary entrepreneurs James and David Ardinast

James and David Ardinast are sitting in the courtyard of Frankfurt’s 25hours Hotel, not far from the city’s central train...

Mixtapes Music

FvF Mixtape #145: Nina Nagele

“Everything and everybody we’re working with is 100% real. That makes it very easy to create a unique and authentic...

Berlin Art

Mark Krayenhoff van der Leur: Garments as sculptural forms

In the back room of his bright fourth floor apartment—aptly located close to Kurfürstendamm, one of the biggest shopping streets...

Berlin Fashion

Don Aretino explores his queer Muslim identity through his avant-garde fashion collections

“My designs aren’t typically commercial, most of them are very avant-garde,” says fashion designer Don Aretino as he begins to...

Berlin Community

Meet the Contributors: James Darton

Since then, Darton has been a prolific contributor for FvF, his colorful and insightful writing has introduced us to creatives...

Cologne Architecture

How do we want to live? Imagining the future of urban neighborhoods with The Sooner Now

How do we want to live? Imagining the future of urban neighborhoods with The Sooner Now In terms of ingenious...

Uckermark Art

Photographer Stefan Heinrichs captures tangible moments, inside and outside the studio

A popular enclave among Berlin creatives, the rural region about an hour northeast of the capital attracts urban dwellers seeking...

Frankfurt Art

Tobias Rehberger explores the boundaries of subjectivity and what constitutes good art

Rehberger’s Portrait Vases of the 1990s are a case in point: artists sent their favorite flowers to Rehberger, who placed...

Düsseldorf Architecture

Sampling Japanese culture with the locals in Düsseldorf’s Little Tokyo

The table looks like a chaotic setting from a scene in an anime show: countless small plates and cups, hardly...

Frankfurt Architecture

Challenging densification in a shifting German metropolis where business must make way for the arts

The risk of developing schizophrenia is three times higher in the city than it is in the country, Mazda Adli...

Hamburg Architecture

Addressing the growing issue of metropolitan space with the need to downsize our architectural preferences

Metropolitan space is limited and there needs to be new solutions for using it differently, more economically and with more...

Berlin Art

On the German autobahn with photographer Jörg Brüggemann

Jörg Brüggemann has been photographing the German autobahn for around a year and a half. Up until now, the resulting...

Community

Dinner with Hanya Yanagihara and friends yields insightful discussion at the FvF Apartment

Dinner with Hanya Yanagihara and friends yields insightful discussion at the FvF Apartment There is nothing small about American novelist...

Cologne Art

Daniel Hug, director of Art Cologne, on the Cologne art scene and the Germans' passion for collecting

Daniel Hug is restless. Homeless. He’d be the first to suggest that of himself. The American with Swiss roots has...

Cologne Design

There is a Light that Never Goes Out: Thomas Melssen hunts down the parts that illuminate

Nowadays, he’s the creative mind and guiding hand behind the lamp manufacturer Funzel baut Licht. He takes us on a...

Berlin Design

Planted firmly on the ground: Albrecht von Alvensleben creates tables for everyday life

At Bullenberg, free thinkers can find the table that suits their lifestyle and outlast a wide variety of different living...

The Bouroullec Brothers Memorialize Zaha Hadid Through a Floral Design Installation

The installation was neither placed in their home country of France, nor Zaha Hadid’s nations of origin, Iraq and Britain,...

Mixtapes

FvF Mixtape #108: 36minutes

The boys behind 36minutes invite other DJs and friends to create 36 minute-long mixtapes, they’re passionate about fostering the mixtape...

A Dark Direction: Lukas Feigelfeld

Hailing from Vienna, Lukas moved to Berlin to pursue a passion for film that has led him to some unique...