Katja Hellkötter is co-founder and designer of the C*SPACE Berlin co-working and creative space, located in the former furniture factory in the Langhanskiez Weißensee. At this space, the Sinology graduate combines her expertise and passion for connecting people, opportunities and ideas across cultural boundaries with her love for interior design, art and aesthetics. She first traveled to Asia in 1994 on the Trans-Siberian Railway to study Chinese, in Chengdu, China. Later, she lived in Shanghai for 15 years, where her responsibilities included overseeing the Hamburg-Shanghai city partnership and managing the office of the City of Hamburg. Katja has initiated quite a few Sino-European projects and collaborations in the last 25 years, including the "Europe China Cultural Compass" (2011), later the network for global learning "CITYMAKERS China-Europe" in cooperation with the Robert Bosch Stiftung, and most recently in the first lockdown summer of the pandemic the project of the "Pop-Up Teahouse Berlin", an informal transcultural space for the Asian-Berlin creative community and all interested people. C*SPACE Berlin's Lockdown is also home to Beijing-based performance calligrapher Qian Geng's space-grabbing artwork "Common Space- Everything flows 一切皆流". Among other things, the artist wrote the "Book of 1000 characters" on the walls. „Common Space- Everything flows 一切皆流“. Unter anderem hat der Künstler das „Buch der 1000 Zeichen“ auf die Wände geschrieben.