Pyur: Lucid Anarchy

The Berlin-based artist on her new album and her time living off-grid in rural France

Pyur, photo: Camille Blake

I am meeting her in a left-wing activist café in Neukölln, an area of Berlin where I once lived for many years, just a couple of blocks up the street.

The woman that goes by the artist name Pyur, but whom I will call by her real name Sophie here, has moved to Neukölln from her native Munich in the mid-2010s.

Since then, it’s be…