ABOUT WIPKE IWERSEN
Wipke Iwersen is initiator of the Expedition to the Origin of the Wind and builder of the original Windvinder,
Born in 1971, Wipke Iwersen spent a great deal of her childhood and youth on the North Sea, on the sailing ship that belonged to her grandfather and then to her parents, and of which she, herself, is now the skipper.
All children have dreams. Unfortunately most children have parents who teach them that when they grow up they should better forget that and do something serious. For me just one thing was serious enough to spend my life with: make my dreams come true.
From 1990 she undertook years of travel on dry land, interrupted by her training as an architect (TU Berlin) and carpenter (in Hamburg). Another period of travel culminated in five years of sculpture studies at the Art Academies of Amsterdam (Rietveld) and Barcelona (La Massana).