Home Is a Door We Carry

Satüpo, Constantin: - CONSTANTIN SATÜPO was born in 1978 in Moscow. He graduated from the University of Printing Arts, and in 2013 he moved in Berlin to study visual communication at the Academy of Arts of Weissensee. He wrote, illustrated and published several children's books and he is also known for his works as a graphic novel author and illustrator. In 2019-2022, within the context of an art-project, he was involved into collaboration with associations helping refugees. With the beginning of Russian agression in Ukraine, he has been coming across children forced to leave their homes on a daily basis, at art events, in schools, on the streets. He wanted to tell the story of children who, at once, lost everything that was familiar to them: a possibility to go to school, meet with friends, take music classes, play football... And most importantly, their dear beloved home. Constantin lives and works in Berlin with his French wife and their children, and his multicultural family uses three languages (German, Russian and French) on a daily basis.