Enno Pötschke & Lisa van Heyden

Enno Pötschke and Lisa van Heyden are based between Amsterdam and Berlin, combining backgrounds in visual communication and architecture. They met at the Sandberg Instituut’s Studio for Immediate Spaces in 2023, where they began a collaborative practice shaped by shared interests in spatial research, ecological urgencies and critical engagement with infrastructural space.

With a background in graphic design, Enno Pötschke's recent sculpture and video works invest in the close narration of materials enlisted in and by extractive economies. In his current research, focused on aggregates such as sand and concrete, he tracks these materials across industries, framing their shape-shifting qualities in relation to economic demands. His work highlights the fragility of social and environmental networks that are too often crushed by the weight of unsustainable material circulation.

Lisa’s practice navigates the intersection of architecture and art, focusing on invisible infrastructures and the environmental narratives they carry. In her ongoing research, she examines air and conditioning as climatic and cultural systems, and how our notions of comfort influence our environments and ways of living. Through spatial interventions, she exposes the ecological and social systems embedded within these infrastructures.

Together, they integrate these perspectives to question and reimagine the relationships between material, space and socio-ecological conditions.