MUSIC – Veronika Morscher

Austrian singer-songwriter Veronika Morscher presents her eagerly awaited second album “Blooming”, which will be released on 7th of June on the renowned Berlin label LowSwing Records. Composed by Morscher herself, the album is a powerful collection of songs that oscillate between emotional expressiveness and artistic depth, with expressive melodies and captivating stories. “Blooming” reflects Morscher’s musical evolution and her deep understanding of the human soul. Each song on the album is an independent narrative inspired by personal experiences, encounters and reflections. With a mixture of jazz and pop influences, Morscher skilfully weaves catchy melodies with sensitive lyrics, accompanied by the outstanding musicians Kit Downes, Hanno Busch, Lisa Hoppe and Lukas Akintaya.

Veronika is a singer, lyricist and composer. She studied jazz vocals at Berklee College of Music in Boston, MUK Vienna and HfMT in Cologne. Veronika is also a certified yoga teacher and studied psychology at the University of Cologne and Maastricht. Between 2015-2023 she lived and worked in Cologne as a freelance musician, co-founded the experimental a cappella quartet "Of Cabbages and Kings" and was featured on numerous albums. Recently, she relocated to Vienna and is working as a lecturer at the HfMDK Frankfurt and mdw Vienna for music physiology courses.

ART EXHIBITION – "Conundrum" Joe Hesketh

Joe Hesketh is a female painter living and working in Pendle, Lancashire, UK, her large scale abstract paintings interpret life as a woman in 21st century Britain, dealing with issues such as class, race and equality, also ignorance in this over saturated world. Her ominous portraits veer between sex, death and life, humour and tragedy, and yet entirely resulting in a disconcerting and yet entirely unique visual duality. Themes of transgression and the grotesque pervade her work.Her work is about being human, even about our parasitic race - just existing in a sexist, racist and narcissistic world. A desire to see and find meaning in chaotic conditions with the instinct to do justice to a full range of feelings and self-conceptions. Are we a spiralling population running out of room, in a place that is doomed to eat itself alive?

“I Feel like the work I want to make is an uneasy feeling inside but it is useful, it makes us know we are alive. We all exist on this Earth, we all bounce around it. With the use of bright colours, my work can be a warning, a red flag, everything you don’t want it to be, a spasm or a little slapstick, or a slap in the face ." Joe Hesketh