The HomeBase Project is an artist-run, non-for-profit art project, that takes place each year thanks to the generous creative and organizational effort of the HomeBase Team.
Anat Litwin – Artistic Director & Founder of HomeBase
Anat Litwin is a Berlin & Brooklyn based American-Israeli artist and curator, working in the medium of paper cut-outs, installation, and public art. She received her BFA from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel in 2001, and her MFA in 2005 from Hunter College in New York, Department of Combined Media with a focus on Public Art. Her work has been exhibited in various venues in Europe, Israel and New York, and is included in private collections. Out of a desire to integrate art into the every day urban experience and cultivate a meaningful cultural dialog, Anat founded in 2006 in her own studio in Brooklyn’The HomeBase Project’ which since has traveled to five different locations and has been featured in notable publications and art venues such as the New York times and the New Yorker. Her previous working experience as the Director of the Makor Artists-in-Residence program and Makor Gallery of the 92nd Street Y in NYC (2003 – 2006), and later as the Associate Director and senior fellow of LABA at the 14th Street Y (2008 – 2010) have gained her with important tools to realize HomeBase as a collaborative social aware artist run project. HomeBase, is an art project on it’s own right – one which is constantly a work in process. anatlitwin.com
Heather Ann McKee – Associate Director HomeBase LAB
Heather Ann McKee has Bachelor’s degrees in both ‘Community, Environment and Planning’ & ‘Dance’ from the University of Washington in Seattle. She is currently enrolled in the Humboldt-Viadrina School of Governance, pursuing a Masters in Public Policy. Heather has outstanding experience in community building , program coordination and non-profit administration. Heather is also a singer/songwriter/performer whose work expresses universal physical experiences through booming to birdlike voicescapes. She considers both Seattle and Berlin home, where she lives, works and collaborates.
Nikki Hendrikx – Manager HomeBase LAB & coordinator HB BUILD
Nikki Hendrikx has a Bachelor’s Degree in Art Management. She studied Art & Economics at the Utrecht School of the Arts in the Netherlands. Nikki is a cultural entrepreneur, who loves to work close with the artists and artistic team in order to achieve the highest level of art. She has a significant amount of experience working behind the scenes for theatre plays and other art events in the Netherlands. In the past she has worked with the artist/composer/creator Merlijn Twaalfhoven as a producer for his interactive and innovative music performances.
Adrian Brun – Co-curator
Born in Bs. As. Argentina. Graduated Bachelor Fine Art (BFA), HKU Utrecht, The Netherlands (2004). For the past years Adrian have been trying to develop an individual sculptural language that visualizes the physical and spiritual fascination that he has with human biology, sexuality as well as the wonder and mystery of the reproductive system, with a fundamental and universal subject matter. His work, which includes installations, videos, photography and performances, has acquired depth through a comprehensive study process. It has been personalized by his own knowledge and understanding of the subject and by his intuitive sensitivity for form and material. Although it has a quiet clear anatomical and organic kernel, there is a second or rather parallel layer in it, which deal more with matters such as ordinary life and how we all function or often malfunction as individuals as well as within community/society. Other Projects: Co-founder, Curator at RoomService Project Space, Amsterdam. Contributor at Das Banale Ding Project Amsterdam. Currently Co-Cutrator at HomeBase Project Berlin.adrianbrun.com
Bas Kools – Design & Development
Design for me is about people, how they live think and do.Since I finished my master in Design at the Royal College of Art in London (2007) I prefer to see design as a collaboration. A collaboration with experts forming a team to innovate systems, situations and services in a social way. Questioning everything to find the real problem and increasing the quality of life by changing the daily. It is design but with a social innovation at its core. With a main interest in the systems, situations, and services people find themselves in, my focus is to find out how we can design new ways of living and working together. Through topics like public space, education, policy making, and business innovation, design is a service that has to rediscover its position in society. A designer has to be a person with the ability to redefine the relations between situations, systems, objects, materials and services in our society. Therefor I am a designer, a person that has the ability to think about objects, materials, situations and systems from a different perspective to ask the right questions solve or to provoke. To offer a solution in any possible way. baskools.com / localintelligence.eu
Mauricio Lizarazo – Business Manager HomeBase Project
Mauricio Lizarazo is a Berlin based entrepreneur, producer and artist who has dedicated many years of his life working within the Entertainment and Music industries internationally. Born in Bogotá, he started his first music band during his school years. In 2004, Mauricio founded Pachamama Culture focusing on the integration of Latin Alternative music into the European and U.S. markets. Since than Mauricio has managed and produced different music artists. Pachamama Culture was founded primarily as a concert management agency and has developed into a full- service venture, including integrated marketing, booking and music management for Latin Alternative artists. Currently, Mauricio represents El Sie7e, La Severa Matacera, and Papaya Republik internationally and has been associated with other acts like Panteón Rococó, Maldita Vecindad, Die Toten Hosen, Culcha Candela, Chico Trujillo and Systema Solar among others. Mauricio earned his master’s degree from New York University (NYU) combining extensive coursework within the MBA program at NYU Stern School of Business and specializing in Entertainment, Media & Technology (EMT). Consequently Professor Al Lieberman, Executive Director of the EMT Program at the Stern School of Business, New York University, invited Mauricio to co-lecture the seminar ‘The Business of Media and Entertainment in Latin America and Europe’. www.mauriciolizarazo.com, www.pachamamaculture.com, www.soundcloud.com / kallparecords Vanessa Macco – Administration & Media Vanessa Macco moved to Berlin in August 2011 and immediately started her internship at HomeBase. Now she is also a student at the Freie Universität Berlin and still supports HomeBase.
