Antikapratika was established in Vicenza (Italy) in 2003 by the artists Ivan Duso and Marta Maria Trenti as Tattoo studio rooted in custom work and visual researc. From the beginning, Ivan and Marta wanted to build a distinctive identity through exclusively custom tattoos and unique works created for specific bodies, stories, and intentions.

Since the late 1990s, Marta and Ivan have traveled throughout Europe, working in tattoo shops, meeting artists, and immersing themselves in the underground cultures of Italy, England, Belgium, France, and Germany. This experience has shaped the project’s visual universe: tattoo culture, symbolism, drawing, collected objects, natural forms and a taste for the unusual.

In 2013 Antikapratika moved to Berlin. Ivan began working as a resident tattoo artist, first at AKA and soon after at BLUT & EISEN, while Marta continued to be active in the tattoo scene before turning her attention to ceramics.

Over time, the same desire to create one-off images for individual customers moved beyond the skin. Antikapratika gradually opened to new surfaces, materials and forms of artistic production.

Today Antikapratika is a small contemporary Wunderkammer : a place where unique objects, limited- edition pieces and occasional releases are selected for their visual strength, material quality and story. Its selection includes hand-painted porcelain, fine art prints, candles, illustrated works and selected objects, all connected by a strong visual identity and shaped by tattoo culture, symbolism, nature, old cabinets of curiosities and contemporary decorative art.

Antikapratika is not a traditional online shop. It is a curated cabinet of unique works and limited-edition pieces, created for people who look for objects with character, meaning and presence. Most pieces are created by Marta and Ivan. Others are selected or developed through collaborations with artists, designers and companies whose language belongs to the Antikapratika world.

Created and curated from Berlin, Antikapratika´s collections include unique pieces, limited editions and occasional special releases.

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