INSIGHTS INTO 19 ATELIERS

Overview

Sibylle Mania’s Insights into 19 Ateliers are more than just a chronicle of studios and workshops—they are windows into the world of creative processes. Yet in these analog black-and-white photographs, the artists themselves remain hidden. Within the intimate interiors, secretive chaos merges with productive efficiency. It is this interplay that fully draws the viewer into the world of painters, sculptors, ceramicists, photographers, metalworkers, and graphic artists. Sibylle Mania takes a step back as photographer and, in her meticulously selected details of the untouched workshops, leaves us with the impression of being immersed in a place where inspiration can turn into creation at any moment.

The Weimar-based artist Sibylle Mania (b. 1967) is a trained ceramicist; she studied sculpture and vessel design at Burg Giebichenstein in Halle and later fine art in Weimar. Since then she has been designing public monuments and art for construction projects, teaching at the School of Painting and Drawing in Weimar and dedicating herself to her photographic work.