Small Hall of «Manege»
nab. kan. Griboedova, 103 (m. Sadovaya, Sennaya ploshchad)
+7 (812) 312-25-54, www.manege.spb.ru
Opening hours: wed-sun 12.00-20.00, mon-tue closed

September 27 – October 14

Line Hoven was born in 1977 in Bonn. Having worked as an assistant of a costume designer and set designer at the State Theater of Kassel, she began studying visual communication at an art school. Two years later she transfered to the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW Hamburg), to the Department of illustrations to study under acomplished teachers such as Anke Feuchtenberger and Atak. It was then that she started to work in scratchboard method, a difficult drawing technique that she has remained faithful to ever since.

Currently Line works as a freelance illustrator and makes comics. Her graphic novel Liebe schaut Weg was published by the Berlin publishing house Reprodukt and won the prize for the best independent comic in 2008 at the largest German comics festival in Erlangen. This is an autobiographical story in which Line talks about her family – parents and grandparents, whose roots are in Germany and the U.S.. When her mother and father fell in love with each other, it turned out that during the Second World War, their fathers fought on opposing sides, and both of them were against this union. Using the memories and stories of her relatives, Line creates a novel which incorporates both historical background and very personal episodes.

www.linehoven.de