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Spotlight: Oliver Rednitz Bringing Love to the Streets
For more than twenty years, Oliver Rednitz has been a quiet yet unmistakable force in Berlin’s urban landscape. His work isn’t confined to galleries or museums. It’s on the walls we walk past every day. Starting with a simple yet powerful statement, “Jesus loves you,” Oliver has turned the act of pasting posters into a long-running love letter to the city.
I first encountered his message decades ago at the Carnival of Cultures in 2004, captured in one of my earliest photographs of Berlins blooming street culture. Later, when I finally met Oliver in person, what followed was more than an encounter with an artist. it was the beginning of a friendship between two creators who share a belief in the power of images to transform.
My first visual reference of Olivers Work appeared in a 2004 photo of the carnival of cultures
This week, during Berlin Art Week, I got to know one of Oliver’s most cherished places: the Haus der Liebe on Auguststraße. For over two decades, its façade has been his canvas, layered with poster after poster, until the building itself became a living archive of love. The site, once a Jewish orphanage, revealed its name only recently: Beit Ahawah (House of Love). A name as if written for Oliver’s life’s work.
Oliver Rednitz, creator of Litekultur & Jesus loves you
His latest show, aptly titled “THE SHOW – a SEHSCHAU over the last 22 years”, unfolded as both exhibition and intervention. Announced as a political gathering so that the space in front of the building could be used, it became something far greater: a temporary agora of art, memory, and presence. Visitors encountered collages, torn layers, and reassembled fragments: Oliver’s PAPERWORX. These works, born from décollage and reconstruction, invite dialogue about time, faith, beauty, and, above all, love.
From the world’s religions to goddesses, from divine symbols to the simple recognition that we are all gods and goddesses Oliver’s journey has been one of peeling back illusions and reminding us of the essential: the love we carry for ourselves and each other.
It was an honor and joy to capture this moment through my lens to document not just an exhibition, but the presence of a true legend of Berlin’s street culture.
So here’s to you, dear Oliver: for keeping love alive on our walls, in our streets, and in our hearts.
The photos of Oliver Rednitz at the Haus der Liebe – a visual homage to a man who has been spreading love in Berlin, one poster at a time.
photos: Alexander Klebe
Who wants to learn more about Oliver’s work, can also check out his Youtube Channel for more Behind the Scenes.
12. September 2025
SOLO SALON #3: X-Mas Edition

Solo Christmas Salon: When Ideas Spark
What happens when creative souls, entrepreneurs and independent minds come together to close the year?
At the Solo Christmas Salon, the answer was simple:
An evening of inspiration, real connection and joyful movement.
When we started the first Solo Salon one year earlier, one thought stayed with us: independent professionals often build a lot on their own. They carry responsibility, ideas, clients, projects and decisions. But at the end of the year, many of them do not have a traditional team to celebrate with.
So we asked ourselves:
Why not create a Christmas gathering for solopreneurs?
In 2024, that idea became real.
The invitation was simple: come as you are, bring something if you like, and be part of an evening shaped by conversation, music, food, ideas and shared energy.
Ocean Studio Berlin turned into a living room of possibilities. No stiff program. No formal agenda. Just an open space for real encounters.
The evening began with deep networking guided by Lara Buschmann, who helped turn a room full of strangers into a room full of new conversations. With sensitivity, structure and warmth, she created a setting where people could meet beyond small talk.
Later in the evening, Philipp Frommer brought music and atmosphere into the studio. From 9 pm on, the room slowly shifted from conversation into movement. The studio became a dance floor, and the year ended with exactly the kind of lightness we had hoped for.
People brought ideas, homemade food, instruments, stories and inspiration. There was talking, laughing, reflecting, music-making and dancing.
The Solo Christmas Salon was more than a Christmas party.
It was a reminder that community does not depend on having a traditional company structure. It can be created by people who decide to show up, contribute and make space for each other.
Sometimes it only takes a small idea, a bit of courage and a few people who believe in it.
Then a room becomes more than a room.
It becomes a place where new connections, inspiration and friendships can begin.
A big thank you to everyone who shaped the evening with their openness, energy and talent. And a special thank you to Lara Buschmann and Philipp Frommer for their creative and generous contributions.
The Solo Christmas Salon showed us that independent work does not have to mean isolated work.
And maybe that was the most beautiful way to end the year.
Alex
Creators Foundation
29. December 2024
SOLO SALON #2: The Art of Positioning
The second Solo Salon focused on a topic that sits at the heart of independent work: positioning.
For solopreneurs, creatives and independent professionals, positioning is never only a marketing question. It is also a question of clarity.
What do I stand for?
Who do I want to reach?
What do I want to become known for?
For this evening, we were joined by Alex T. Steffen as our special guest. As a keynote speaker, management consultant and author, Alex brought deep experience from the fields of communication, personal branding, leadership and organizational change.
He was joined by Jamaine Pulat, an experienced sales expert and relaxed co-moderator for the evening. Together, they brought the topic of positioning to our living room stage at Ocean Studio Berlin and opened a conversation that was both strategic and personal.
The central idea of the evening was clear:
Positioning is not about becoming louder.
It is about becoming more precise.
Alex shared impulses on how to position yourself as a thought leader within a specific niche and why independent professionals need more than a broad description of what they do. They need a point of view.
A strong position helps others understand where to place you. It makes your work easier to remember, easier to recommend and easier to trust.
But the evening also showed that positioning is not just an external exercise. It asks for inner alignment. The clearer we become about our values, strengths, audience and direction, the easier it becomes to communicate our work without pretending to be someone else.
The room was filled with creatives, consultants, coaches, founders and independent minds from Berlin. Through conversation, reflection and shared questions, the evening moved between business, identity and creative practice.
It was not a lecture about building a brand from the outside.
It was an invitation to look inward and ask:
What is the compass behind my work?
A big thank you to Alex T. Steffen and Jamaine Pulat for shaping the evening with their insights, experience and generous presence. And thank you to everyone who joined the conversation and turned the second Solo Salon into another meaningful gathering.
Solo Salon #2 reminded us that positioning is not a fixed sentence.
It is a practice.
A way of aligning what we do, how we speak and why it matters.
With gratitude,
Alex
Creators Foundation
29. April 2024

Tag: community

Spotlight: Oliver Rednitz Bringing Love to the Streets

SOLO SALON #3: X-Mas Edition

Solo Christmas Salon: When Ideas Spark

SOLO SALON #2: The Art of Positioning