Neva Demure Unnatural (2025)
Bär Kittelmann’s work unfolds across sound and image, bringing together graphic design, illustration, comics and music into a practice that is as playful as it is expansive. Based in Berlin, Kittelmann is also known under the DJ alias URSUS, whose sets are characterised by a genre-crossing approach that embraces curiosity over convention.
Goofy, a little cheeky and, above all, fun, URSUS treats musical categories less as rules than as opportunities for unexpected encounters. It's an approach that mirrors Kittelmann's wider artistic practice, where experimentation and humour often go hand in hand.
Beyond music, Kittelmann works as a graphic designer and illustrator, with clients including Missy Magazine, Delfi and USB Magazine. Last year, Bär co-created the artist publication we cannot escape we cannot come out, shortlisted for the Förderpreis für junge Buchgestaltung 2025 (Engl. Sponsorship Prize for Young Book Design). The book examines digital behaviour through analogue media, turning familiar online patterns into something both critical and unexpectedly humorous.
When we asked Bär for a track, the choice wasn’t entirely easy. One thing, however, became clear almost immediately: it had to come from Neva Demure’s album Antidote. Ultimately, Bär’s final pick was “Unnatural.” “Neva Demure’s style is hard to describe,” Bär says. “Sometimes soft and inviting, sometimes harsh to the point of feeling almost threatening, but never without a pinch of self-irony—and incredibly good production. Heart eyes.”.
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