Untitled: Goethe Institute Chennai

Goethe-Institut has been working with artists from across the globe to create a digital platform dedicated to comics, focusing on the subject of travel since 2019. Taking this journey to another dimension, Goethe-Institut and St+art launched an open call to invite one German and one Indian artist to collaboratively work on two murals – one in Kannagi Art District, Chennai and one in Lodhi Art District, Delhi. The selected artists were encouraged to work on thought- provoking ideas about the meaning of travel from a broad lens. Spiritual, time, space travel, post-pandemic travel.. How can an inward or outward journey become an image for storytelling on the large canvas of a wall? From the southern city of Chennai to the northern capital city of New Delhi and through this cross-cultural collaboration, how does one create a journey of coexistence in diversity and exploration beyond borders? Greta von Richthofen studied visual communication in Hamburg and Kassel. The focus of her work is on documentary narratives and graphic novels. When she is not drawing on her comics, she loves to illustrate and occasionally does workshops and readings. Since 2019 she has been working as an artist and is particularly interested in projects that allow experiments and take place in collaboration.