mein Heim (my Home) is a documentary art project which captures the experience of homeless people in Berlin during the coronavirus pandemic in spring and summer 2020. It portrays 12 homeless people through interviews and photos. The idea behind the project was to lend homeless people a voice to tell their own stories, past and present, memories of the places where they grew up, and what it is like to live on the street and be homeless during the coronavirus pandemic.

The idea sprung from my current interest in the House and Home as physical and psychological phenomena. How the memories of the places we grew up stay with us for life. During the pandemic there was a widespread feeling that the house and home were places of refuge. The question arose how this particularly vulnerable group living on the street could avoid infection, and how this state of emergency has impacted their lives. The interviews portray a variety of individuals and destinies and are intended to represent a cross-section of the diverse group of homeless people in Berlin.