Touched by Art: Lina Schreiber & Miriam Vlaming

Lina Schreiber lives in Wiesbaden and regularly visits Julia Isterling’s open studio on Karlstraße. During our visit, the young woman—who participates in programs offered by EVIM Teilhabe—is painting a street scene based on a photo of Wiesbaden: a winding road leading uphill, a dead end. As she explains, Lina Schreiber hopes to one day walk every street in her hometown. She’s already covered a fifth of them. And the photos she takes along the way inspire her painting. Otherwise, she tends to paint more abstractly, she says. As a “warm-up,” she painted a portrait with her eyes closed alongside the artist Miriam Vlaming from Berlin. It hangs in the hallway and looks a bit like something by Picasso. Lina Schreiber talks about her cat and other things she does. “At first, I just sat here and took in the atmosphere.” Painting together is a new experience for her. “I’m taking it easy.” Miriam Vlaming, also a Berlin-based artist, is considered part of the “New Leipzig School.” Her paintings can also be found at the Taunussteiner Kunsthaus. “In a world marked by acceleration and contrasts, Miriam Vlaming seeks in her painting the forces that unite—the moment when multiplicity becomes unity,” wrote a critic. “She showed me a new medium, egg tempera paints,” says Lina Schreiber. She has to get used to it first. What the two of them will create together—that hasn’t been decided yet. (Text: Anja Baumgart-Pietsch, Photos: evim/rui camilo)