About ATS Art Projects

With ATS Art Projects, I want to shape a platform for contemporary art, artistic collaboration, curatorial projects, workshops, and social art formats.

The name ATS comes from Apple Tree Submarine, a long-term art project by the Munich-based artist Oh-Seok Kwon. His artistic universe, with drawings, sculptures, installations, stories, participation, and imagination, is at the heart of ATS Art Projects. My collaboration with Oh-Seok Kwon has deeply shaped the way I think about art: as something that can grow over time, move between places, involve different people, and open poetic ways of looking at the world.

My professional background comes from the art world. I have worked with museums, larger exhibitions, travelling exhibitions, auction houses, art galleries, art fairs, private collectors, artists, and international art projects. This experience has given me a broad understanding of how artworks, exhibitions, artists, institutions, collectors, logistics, texts, spaces, and audiences are all connected.

My own experience as a mother of two children also strongly influences the way I work. Through my children, I am constantly reminded how important it is to protect curiosity, imagination, and the freedom to see the world differently. Children often notice things that adults overlook. They ask questions, invent stories, and move naturally between reality and fantasy. This is something I want to preserve and support in my work.

At the same time, I am interested in how art can be experienced in a very direct and human way. I want the people I work with, children, adults, artists, older people, families, or institutions, to discover new ways of looking at the world around them. For me, inspiration does not only exist inside museums or galleries. It can be found everywhere: in an exhibition, in an artist’s studio, in a walk through the forest or the city, in a visit to a goldsmith, a wood carver, a workshop, a garden, a material, a sound, a memory, or a small detail that suddenly becomes important.

A central part of my work is developing art projects and workshops for children. I want to go beyond the common idea of a “children’s workshop” as something that simply takes place at a table with prepared materials. For me, the encounter comes first. I want children to see, experience, ask questions, and become inspired, and only then begin to create from that experience.

These workshops may take place within a museum’s educational program, in a private setting, in an artist’s studio, outdoors, or in another place where materials, stories, and impressions can be discovered. The starting point might be an exhibition, a studio visit, a walk, a material, a craft, a sound, or a conversation.

It is very important to me that children are given space to develop their own character, their own way of seeing, and their own fantasy. I believe fantasy is essential, not only for creativity, but also for staying healthy, open, and happy. Fantasy allows children to imagine other possibilities, to trust their own inner world, and to experience art as something alive.