I am currently working on a mosaic for my new kitchen in Berlin. The challenge is to use up all 6-8mm crystal mosaic tiles which I brought from China. I decided to go for colourful stripes to be able to use most of the tiles in different sizes that I have.
Here are the first panels finished of the 4,30m long mosaic. Its a nice occupation to pass time waiting for the workmen to finish the renovations.
kitchen mosaic, Gertrud Müller, 2023
The German Organization for Mosaic Art and the Aldersbach Art Association organized a mosaic exhibition with international participation in the grounds of the Al
dersbach monastery. my 3 bird mosaics were neighbors with works by Giovanni Alvich, in the chapel of the cloister.
I was at the opening on May 20, 2023 and met some of the artists there. At the general meeting held on the same day, I was elected to the DOMO board. Since then, I have learned a lot about mosaic art in Germany and Europe and can contribute my international experience at the board meetings.
The video of the community mosaic “Möckernkiez” is here! A document of the creative work of a house community.
” I would not have thought that my neighbors could produce such beautiful designs. Now I see some of them with a whole new set of eyes.”
a resident and participant in the Mosaik project told me during the opening of the first part of the Community Mosaik for House 1 in the Möckernkiez in Berlin Kreuzberg.
32 residents from the 22 apartments that use Staircase A on a daily basis each designed a mosaic tile. On May 5, the mosaic tiles were installed by me and 3 other helpers from the house in the entrance area as a frieze.
Installation preparation – a team lays out the tiles and decides on their arrangement
Final design of the mosaic frieze
Saturday, May 6, was scheduled for joint grouting. Unfortunately, no one had signed the list of helpers. We “installers”, still tired from the previous day’s concentration and physical exertion, were worried. Would we manage to grout and clean the mosaic before the inauguration which was scheduled for 3pm?
We started to mix the grout. And lo and behold, one neighbor came, then a second, and by 11 o’clock I didn’t have enough gloves and spatulas so that everyone could join in at the same time. It was wonderful! One team scraped out overcrowded joints while immersed in conversation. Some children grouted with their mothers, others checked the grout lines for small holes that still existed, and the prudent ones immediately cleaned up and swept the floor to quickly remove unavoidable dirt with grout. It was a wonderful togetherness!
And suddenly there were the helpers …..
Promptly at 3 p.m. the champagne corks could be popped and the mosaic and the effort of the house community could be celebrated.
Admiring the joint effort and the shape of the mosaic
