FERNWEH-THE GOOD LIFE is a Mail-Art project that I started during an artist residency in Nebraska City, USA at the KHN Center for the Arts. I invited an international group of visual artists and authors to send me a postcard to Nebraska with their interpretation of the theme "Fernweh(engl:Wanderlust)". In return, all participants received a corresponding map on the same topic from Nebraska City.
HEIMWEH-HOMESICKNESS is the corresponding project: The same group of artists* was invited to send one postcard each on the subject of Heimweh/Homesickness to my home address in Berlin. All postcards are documented on two weblogs and were originally shown in January 2016 in an exhibition in Berlin. All participating artists were invited to a "Fernweh Salon" in the exhibition space on the opening evening.
Fernweh postcards by Anke Becker sent from Nebraska City.
Fernweh postcards to Nebraska City / Heimweh postcards to Berlin. Complete collections: www.fernwehthegoodlife.blogspot.de
and www.heimweh-homesickness.blogspot.de
Exhibition and Fernweh-Salon with the participating artists, January 15, 2016 at tête, Berlin
ERN WEH * HEIM WEH TeilnehmerInnen: Stefka Ammon, Tamara Arroyo, Alfred Banze, Anthony Barilla, Michael Bause, Hannes Becker, Anke Becker, Matthias Beckmann, Ansgar Beinke, Markus Bickel, Lutz Bielefeld, Gam Bodenhausen, Alex Booth, Jenny Brown, Bettina Carl, Brian Chambers, Carolyn Chen, Holland Cunningham, Kristina Darling, Missy Dunaway, Frank Diersch, Gabriella Disler, Ilse Ermen, Christine Falk, Nadja Frank, Heike Gallmeier. Kati Gausmann, Nancy Goldring, Kerstin Gottschalk, Sam Grigorian, Cyntia Hartling, Anne Hölck & Gian Manuel Rau, rian, Marc Haselbach, Björn Hegardt, Aline Helmcke, Katharina Hinsberg, Veronike Hinsberg,Helmut Huber, Ralf Käselau, Charlie Kearns, Marte Kiessling, Alex Klenz, Pauline Kraneis, Ralf Krause, Traudl Kupfer, Juliane Laitzsch, CorinneLaroche, Michael Lee, Britta Lenk, Rita Leppiniemi, Dong Li, Pia Linz, Alec Mac Leod, Eva-Christina Meier, Astrid Menze, Nanne Meyer, Eva Nikolova, Moritz Nitsche, Oda Pälmke, Katja Pudor, Inken Reinert, Denise Richard, Stefan Riebel, Matthew Rose, Janine Sack, Dawn Schabner, Susanne Schirdewahn, Andrea Scholz, Anton Schwarzbach, Erin Sickler, Carlos Silva, Zuzanna Skiba, Steve Snell, Elisabeth Sonneck, Elizabeth Stehling, David Samuel Stern, André Stocker, Katrin Ströbel, Nikolas Theilgaard,Dorit Trebeljahr, Hannah van Ginkel, Andree Volkmann, Nora von Mendelssohn, Josh Weiner, Esmé Weijun Wang, Patrick Weh Weihland, Anke Westermann, Jan Wurm, Katie Wynne, Michael Zander, Patricia Zarate, Michaela Zimmer.