Text by: Ruri Kawanami
Photo by: Mai Suzuki

We visited the atelier of Aya Ando, a 23-year old art student, who now studies at the Universität der Künste (UdK) in Berlin as an exchange student.

She is a young and ambitious artist who promised us that she would definitely come back to Berlin after her student years!

今回はベルリンの芸術大学（Universität der Künste (略UdK)）で勉強する日本人アーティストの安藤綾さんのアトリエにお邪魔してきました。
明るくとても意志の強い彼女ですが、今回の大学の留学が終わってもまたベルリンに帰ってきたい！とのことです。

You studied fine arts in Japan, what motivated you to come to Berlin in the first place?

日本でも美大で勉強していたようですが、どうしてベルリンに来ようと思ったのでしょうか。

I moved around a lot while I was living in Japan, but basically I was settled in Oota, Tokyo. I had never been to Berlin before this exchange year, but liked some German artists like Gerhard Richter, and also admired my professor Zipp here at the University, that’s why I came to Berlin.

Berlin is a very chaotic city in a positive manner. I wanted to put myself in this…