Transform your business through the arts


Discover the Symbiosis Studios to unleash out-of-the-box thinking within your team


Benefit from teaming up with artists in our pop-up
creativity boot camp to reflect and transform your field.
The Symbiosis Studios provides a week full of art workshops, discussions, body work, experiments, inspiration, coaching and aha-moments. Together we examine your challenges and design your future business!


ILLUSTRATION
Berlin based illustrator Katrin Funcke works for clients such as Saatchi & Saatchi, Mercedes Benz, Nokia and The New York Times. Visualizing complex issues is her strengh.
Within the Thinking Hands workshops she teaches participants to understandably visualize their expertise by questioning details to clarify the subject. Her elegant style of painting directs attention to specific aspects and provides imaginative energy.



COMMUNICATION + PHILOSOPHY OF ART
Stephanie Guse creates joint experiences through the arts to inspire transformation. She co-invented the Symbiosis Studio and its programme such as the Thinking Hands workshops, and teaches its methods to support researchers and companies to design a sustainable future.
Through communicational workshops she captures, moderates and reflects the participants ideas to create transformative solutions.



STUDIO DESIGN + PRODUCT DESIGN
Michael lehner is a product designer and teacher from Hamburg. He co-designed the Symbiosis Studio as a space of action, flexibility and fun to spontanously adapt to the needs of the workshops and participants.
Benefit from his workshops in which he jointly creates and visualises your ideas of products and services!



ILLUSTRATION
Kristina Heldmann is a highly recognized illustrator and author from Berlin. Her science based books such as Hallo Plankton! focus on the relationship between humans and the environment. Her investigative moderation, and bold manner of painting involves the participants in expressive visual discussions to boost creativity, awareness and enthusiasm. 



COMMUNICATION DESIGN
Stefan Michaelsen is a communication designer with a focus on public outreach through exhibitions. He loves the challenge to visually transfer complex information with participants into clear messages. This helps to overcome overwhelm of ideas and goals and develop  instead a tangible guiding scheme.



DANCE, CHOREOGRAPHY AND HEALTH
Daniela Mühlbauer is an Austrian dancer and choreographer. She creates choreographies for theatres such as the National Theatre Vienna (Burgtheater), and trains professional actors to dance and perform in groups.
Within her workshop you approach your field through embodiment by creating a joint choreography. This lifts up the group’s energy. In combinig yoga poses the workshop also strenghtens the wellbeing to grow the participants joy, health and creativity.



PAINTING + PHILOSOPHY OF LANDSCAPE
Dr. Hannah Stippl is a Viennese painter, curator and landscape theorist. Within her workshops you explore the relationship between humans and nature from a sensual and mythologic perspective to increase your creativity and intuition in line with the environment.
You can find Hannah`s transformimg artwork in international public spaces and exhibitions.



STUDIO DESIGN + PRODUCT DESIGN
Andreas Bergmann is a scenic and product designer from Berlin. He is known for his vibrant studio designs for broadcasting stations such as Deutsche Welle (DW) and Schweizer Fernsehen (SRF). From this background he co-designed the Symbiosis Studio together with Michael Lehner.
Benefit from his workshops in which he jointly creates and visualises your ideas of products and services!