E-flux and the Return of the Peters
From rebuilding a giant website to painting a hotel room full of small creatures.
I have been back in Berlin for two weeks already. A lot of things happened at the same time and I did not find a moment to sit down and write my weekly newsletter.
But now I am getting back into my routine and try to stick to it.
e-flux
For the last year I kept mentioning that we were working on a very large website project which I could not talk about yet. Now it is online and public.
I am very proud to say that we at 100k Studio built the new system behind the e-flux website.
e-flux is basically the New York Times of the art world. It is the biggest archive of art news on the internet and they publish new content every day.
We migrated all of their data into a modern Content Management System and adapted all relationship structures to work in the new environment. Hundreds of thousands of files. Tens of thousands of database entries. Hundreds of collections and relationship types.
We rebuilt their frontend, their client area CMS, their search system, their booking integration, their newsletter and reminders system and their iOS app.
It is not just a website. It is a whole ecosystem running across several servers.
In the end it looks exactly like the old e-flux website. But it loads faster and the codebase and CMS were modernized.
Peters in Hamburg
Sekko Soziale, Aneta Vaškelytė and I were invited to paint an entire room at Villa Viva in Hamburg. This is the hotel run by Viva con Agua.
Sekko Soziale makes great sparkling wine and fights fascism and racism in Germany.
Viva con Agua is a Hamburg based organisation working toward Water for all. Villa Viva is their hotel and every stay supports their global social projects.
So we spent a whole night painting one of the rooms with Peters. A lot of Peters.
And apparently I am now free to come back whenever I want and paint more Peters around the hotel.
In general I want to give the Peters a bit more love again. A new calendar for 2026. Some cute clothing pieces. Maybe offering Peter drawings online.
Thank you so much for reading.
Much love,
Marius
