I didn't paint eyebrows at that time, just had a rhomb shaped eyeliner and a crease cutting upwards, onto my forehead, like it still does. Since first starting in the Euro drag scene 4 years ago, Hungry has well-established herself as both a powerful queer performer and bonafide artist. It's not only a voice, it's an echo that will get you heard, no matter what your message is. HUNGRY ON THE BERLIN SUBWAY. Distorted Drag. It became more and more artistic. The young creatives taking over the German capital.The nostalgic songs that define a golden era where rent was cheap and parties where still underground.Gal Naor is an Israeli choreographer and sign language interpreter using gestures to move Berlin audiences.Berlin artist Hungry didn’t fit into any genre of drag – so he created his own.Kristiane Kegelmann creates sculptures that are feasts for the eyes – the tastebuds.
With over 115,000 followers watching post after post of breathtaking creations it’s easy to understand how Hungry has become one of the most talked about drag queens … [I treated] it like a sewing pattern and finding ways to make it more technical and, for me, more relatable. That line then became several panels, turned into different shapes and I added more colors and pearls throughout. There's differences in every country or even city I go to, just depending on the overruling issues or interests of the area. I myself am still very new to it, considering that I've only been doing it for 4 years now, and I keep seeing so many refreshing, fascinating new aspects and interpretations of drag in my travels.I wouldn't want it to change much. After a few months of trying out new looks and meandering amid audience members, Pansy took notice and offered him a chance to perform. It’s more punk.”Today, the artist’s aesthetic is constantly evolving – from the pastel tones of his styling work for Björk, to looks inspired by 19th-century English fox hunts, paired with YSL boots. Hungry saw their strength in being different. Johannes put on a wig and a pal painted his face. Any avant-garde artist will have to deal with that sooner or later, and I know many who have dealt with it way longer than I had to.James Merry, the artist behind Björk's stunning handcrafted masks and now silicone pieces, approached me over Instagram.
Even so, at one point his Instagram bio read: “90% sure I’ve peaked.”But dark humor and vulnerability, whipped together with a bubblegum-pink eye or animal body-mods, are this disrupter’s recipe for reinvention. Therefore the big picture itself doesn't have an immediate inspiration, but I personally was always fascinated by anatomy, biological structures and religious figures.Apart from more and more people looking like me, drag just exploded in popularity. For about a year, I had one continuous line cutting through my face, framing my bone structure and separating my face. Meet the creatives risking everything to be heard. She has established herself as a powerful performer and her alienesque makeup has helped cultivate a look that is entirely her own. That then took another year, until I had found a more fitting kind of drag, that I also felt comfortable in, on the train or outside of safe spaces.It all started out as very natural beauty makeup, because I, admittedly, have a very easy face for makeup.
“Berlin gave me a stage to perform right away without having any background … the scene is young. “I am no pioneer.” Hungary’s lightning strike of fame would say otherwise: His Instagram followers top 387,000. One day, Chloe Waldorf and I were invited to Fashion Week and weren't too thrilled about the idea of heavy daytime drag, so I thought, why not keep my eyebrows, move my liner underneath my eyes and make it seem like my eyes dropped.
“I realized there's enough [commercial drag] already. Hungry, known on Instagram as @isshehungry, is a drag performer, fashion designer, and model.. Even so, Hungry is conscious of disassociating himself from Berlin’s old guard. And the burgeoning drag culture did not take very long to notice the never-seen-before art that Hungry had to offer the world. Today he’s opted for more subdued, natural makeup in lieu of his signature praying-mantis-like mask. “It’s only political because I’m outside the norm.”“I can’t save the world and I do not want to,” he insists. History. It pretty much came out of the blue, but he must have noticed me and apparently she then saw one of my makeup [looks] and really felt it fit the concept of It's a beautiful environment to be working in.