The last time we spoke to Johanna Walderdorff she had just moved to Leipzig to concentrate on her large-scale fantastical creations. Sine then, the German illustrator has been working nonstop. āI got commissioned for the first time shortly after the last article and I havenāt stopped working since. Last year I found a lovely studio in Kreuzberg, Berlin that makes working long nights an absolute joy. Iām very happy that my illustrations appeal to so many different clients and that they can be used to illustrate a wide range of topics; from a comic about Pucciniās La Boheme for the Bavarian State Opera in collaboration with Bureau Borsche to monthly posters for underground club Institut fuer Zukunft otherwise known as Leipzigās Berghain,ā Johanna tells Itās Nice That. Her striking creations may be versatile, yet Johanna remains faithful to her aesthetic. Each drawing is populated by some sort of absurd scenario, from surreal dismembered body parts snorting coke and drinking champagne to a horse-man hybrid.
2018-04-05