We ended our Berlin tour by visiting Ai Weiwei’s studio underneath Olafur Eliasson in the vaults of the brewery. We didn’t expect to see him, but did – surprisingly serene, away from the refugees, teaching at the university and looking after his son, whilst he prepares for an exhibition at the Palazzo Strozzi. He has accumulated large amounts of clothes from the refugee camps and there was a wonderful wickerwork man suspended from the ceiling:-
And I liked the kitchen:-





