It would be wrong to say that the city of Berlin is not regulated. What I think is more interesting is to what extent a city creates a sort of safe haven for its users, so that people feel confident that the city works on their behalf.

Over the years, in making art, I have constantly explored issues dealing with space, time, light, and society. I am particularly interested in how the light of a space determines how we see that space and similarly, in how light and color are actually phenomena within us, within our own eyes.

I always try to make work that activates the viewer to be a co-producer of our shared reality.

Light has an evident, functional and aesthetic impact on our lives.

I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.

Photographs have a relevance for things that cannot be said.

If I have the choice of traveling to Russia, India or New Zealand alone for a week for preliminary discussions or to spend that week with my family, I routinely choose my family.