Entropy
The theme of this year’s LABA fellowship is Entropy. Over the last several months, Jewish and Muslim artists came together each week in a shared studio in the Künstlerhaus Bethanien. With the guidance of instructors from both faiths, the group approached the concept of entropy from scientific, theological, and philosophical perspectives, connecting it with their […]
The broom, the spoon and her shoes
In her exhibition The broom, the spoon and her shoes, at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Myriam Jacob-Allard braids cultural, personal, and film-historical references into an arresting reflection on matrilineal inheritance, transformation, and the experience of time. The central work is Les Immortelles, a collage film in four chapters, formally ranging between symbolism and abstraction. Wraith-like objects emerge […]
From the Boat Drifting Past a Forest of Stars
A window, looking out or in, playfully fitted with a white lace curtain, framed by pastel colors, the profile of a lyre, the musical instrument of classical Greece, cropped on one side, while on the other the frame runs into a dark curling form, recalling a piece of heavy fabric. This multi-layered little artwork, somewhere […]
Make the World
“Anyone can break up a showing of an enemy propaganda film by putting two or three dozen large moths in a paper bag. Take the bag to the movies with you, put it on the floor in an empty section of the theater as you go in and leave it open. The moths will fly […]
Meow
In Peng Yi-Hang’s practice, photographic observation unfolds as an inquiry into boundaries—between visibility and concealment, intimacy and distance, order and spontaneity. Over the past fifteen years, Peng Yi-Hang has approached photography not merely as a means of representation but as a reflective medium, where images concern less what is seen than the act of seeing […]
Graduale 25: FLOW STATES
Flow States brings together the works of the final cohort of UdK Graduate School in an exhibition, performance and event programme that explores how infrastructures shape our daily lives and how they might open ways of imagining different futures. The exhibition marks the final chapter of the fellowship programme, closing a 15-year journey of interdisciplinary […]
Specters of Sultana
Specters of Sultana: A Speculative History of Subcontinental Science is the third chapter of the project Becoming B. With contributions by Areez Katki, Aulic Anamika, Chitra Ganesh, houaïda, Iskander Abdalla, Kei Watanabe, Leila Bencharnia, Omar Kasmani, Perera Elsewhere, Sumona Dhakal, Wooly Aziz, and Zuneera Shah, the exhibition imagines, based on the groundbreaking 1905 science fiction […]
Rachel Libeskind: It’s Just a Matter of Attitude
The exhibition series Becoming B can be understood as a public step in a process of institutional self-transformation. It accompanies and critically reflects on the ongoing transformation of Künstlerhaus Bethanien—an institution whose historically rooted name refers to its original location and its former use as a hospital. The term “Bethanien,” etymologically linked to the biblical […]
Krys Huba: All of those records; tell me, bee
With All of those records; tell me, bee – the second chapter of the project Becoming B, curated by Marie-Sophie Dorsch, Krys Huba turns his gaze inwards: Based on the lyrical figure bee, dey approaches questions of queer identity and affiliations within normative social structures. bee itself materializes in the exhibition in traces that are […]
Ontophonics
Ontophonics explores the sonic potential of Physarum polycephalum, a single-celled, multinucleated slime mold known for its distributed intelligence and adaptive behavior despite lacking a central nervous system. Using custom-designed printed circuit boards, the organism’s movements and bioelectrical signals are transformed into sound in real-time. Ontophonics proposes a new model of sound installation – one based […]