Sometimes, art emerges in the spaces where people come together. In this case, it happens in Anna Lukashevsky’s classroom in Schöneberg. Since moving to Berlin a year ago, the artist has been organizing painting classes for immigrants and Germans with foreign roots, to build community, she says. And to earn a living as she works to reestablish herself as an artist in her new city. Together, her students paint portraits of different models, most of whom are also immigrants, with stories that often mirror those of the painters themselves. The class is a lively mix. Participants speak Italian, Russian, Hebrew, and Georgian all at once. The results of these classes, “political-psychological portraits”, as Anna Lukashevsky herself calls them, will be shown for the second time this week (08.11.2025) under the title “Immigrants Paint Immigrants”, in the rooms of a psychoanalysis practice on Tempelhofer Ufer. Visitors can expect art in an unusual yet perfectly fitting setting, and portraits that reveal as much about the painters as they do about their models.
Text: Inga Krumme / Photos: Anna Lukashevsky
Praxis Gallery, Tempelhofer Ufer 1A, 10961 Berlin–Kreuzberg; map
Immigrants Paint Immigrants pop-up exhibition 08.11.2025
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