Hi, I’m Philipp and I come from a place where there is not much to do, other than shopping, drinking beer and dying. Where the city was always further away than the moon and the stars. It was outer space, and I wanted to discover it, my universe. As I grew older, my interest in the city and in travelling grew exponentially. This was particularly true of train travel, which admittedly is as distant to most people in the town I come from as the moon and the stars.

There's just something so fascinating about a space that moves almost silently and smoothly through space. To me, trains and buses are like spaceships. They take me from one galaxy to another. Into the city, to the outskirts of civilisation and vice versa. Those are exactly the sort of places I love to curate. I want people to come across my work in their everyday lives, in places where they least expect it. In their spaceship, or on their way there.

Growing up in a village, I have always been fascinated by the urban. Where there is so much to discover, so much to explore and so much room to get lost. I love getting lost on purpose, walking through a city or town and just taking it all in. Every street, every square, every bank, every piece of graffiti. In general, I love the uncertain, the vague, the undefined. I love to provoke, to confuse, to break structures, to be poetic, silly and serious at the same time. I want to reach people with my work, introduce them to their environment and invite them to engage in a dialogue about it.