BLAU Map
BLAU Map is a digital guide and network
of places created with artists and art practitioners.
It spots studios, cafés, bars, green spots, and first-hand insights from local scenes — selected through personal, honest conversations with creators.
supported by
Raw, personal perspectives
on places-as-experiences from local creators who shape their cities’ cultural landscapes.
Focus on inclusivity and diversity in featuring the artists: we showcase both emerging and established
A guide that features sites while spotlighting voices of active, working creators, weaving their stories into place exploration.
​Interview with the founders
of BAAM Sofia Nordmann and José Contreras Aguad: mapping the path of Berlin’s art scene
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We talked with Sofia and José about their personal journeys and the story behind BAAM — diving into art, artists, and, of course, Berlin’s bubbling creative scene.
Read the full conversation and uncover the places and events that should not go unnoticed when in Berlin.
Location: Berlin, Germany
Prague in lines and intervals: mapping the city with Taja Spasskova
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We visited Taja Spasskova in Prague, an artist whose practice treats drawing as both structure and intuition. In her work, precision meets vulnerability, and the city appears through density, edges, and the quiet spaces in between.
In our conversation ahead of her solo exhibition, Taja reflects on inner freedom as a condition for mastery, on residencies that shaped her trajectory, and on why drawing remains her core instrument.
Location: Prague, Czech Republic
​Planes overhead,
canvas underfoot:
how Dinka mapped London
without trying to hold it still
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We talked with Dinka Leonova about memory, migration, and how London — with all its noise, parks, and solitude — reshaped her art and everyday life.
Read the full conversation and uncover the places that ground her in the city — from RCA studios to deer-filled royal parks.
Location: London, UK
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Interview with Raman Kaminski: an artist, musician, and performer who builds homes wherever he lands. ​
From a 12th-century church residency to a Bastille home-studio, Raman speaks about what it means to root in practice rather than place. This is Paris in work-mode: long café mornings, vinyl spinning, painting by night — and the steady sense of working as a way of living.
Location: Paris, France
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Wet asphalt, peach skies: mapping Vilnius with Yana Chernova ​
We visited the studio/home of Yana Chernova in Vilnius — an artist who frames vulnerability and force in color.
In our conversation, Yana shares her personal Vilnius map: places to get grounded, paths to wander, and corners where the city reveals its softest touch.
Location: Vilnius, Lithuania
Blue. White. Home:
Diogo Barros Pires maps
his Lisbon
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Diogo Barros Pires is a Lisbon-based artist and co-founder of Safra Lx, an artist-run workshop space in Lumiar. His crayon drawings follow recurring faces that move from sheet to sheet, shifting between concrete people and inner archetypes.
For BLAU MAP, Diogo speaks about growing into art almost by accident, balancing work habits with intuition, and why Lisbon, for him, will always be blue, white and cobblestone.
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
All interviews presented as part of the BLAU MAP project were developed with the support of platformB.
Any reproduction, distribution or reuse of these materials is permitted only with prior written consent from the BLAU Studio team.