Every Day, Every Week Another Historical Image Floods Our Screens
On entering Ezra Šimek’s installation Every Day, Every Week Another Historical Image Floods Our Screens , the eye is initially directed towards a mirror, a red curtain and a projection. An 18-minute succession of three video sequences unfolds, accompanied by a varied soundtrack mainly of Ezra Šimek speaking. In the first scene an athletic figure […]
Beyond the Facade
Kosuke Nakane’s work is an invitation to rediscover our urban habitat. His paintings translate streets and squares, houses and gardens into a reflection on the quotidian and the transient. In doing so they evade an overly familiar way of looking at painting. Kosuke Nakane’s motifs assert their three-dimensionality on the flat ground of the canvas, […]
The First Killing of a Butterfly
Even before you enter, you can see the first pair of wings. The deconstructed birds from the painting Butcher Bird guide you into the space, while the outline of a mounted butterfly rises up to the side. The title of the exhibition, The First Killing of a Butterfly, sets the tone. Next, the eye is […]
Pocket Lines
In Ruti de Vries’s animated video The Catchers (2026), several anthropomorphic figures float onto the screen one after the other. Their bodies are assembled from bulging monochromatic shapes reminiscent of tents or rocks, as well as black lines that extendt beyond the edge of the frame as arms and pbraids, suggesting a shared rootedness. They […]
Hovers
Shunsaku Hayashi has conceptualized the leap-frog as an icon of the rebellious spirit of our age. Inspired by a football video game, it is presented in his film hovers (2026) in the form of a stop-motion animation consisting of original paintings. The leap-frog manifests itself as a playful ritual to celebrate the scoring of a […]
It Started with a Pear
It Started with a Pear is a narrative by Noé Duboutay about desire, memory and the constructed nature of gender. The starting point of the exhibition is the thirteenth-century medieval verse novel Le Roman de Silence by Heldris de Cornuälle (Heldris of Cornwall). It tells the story of a girl who is raised as a […]
Ren Loren Britton: Deixis & Needs
What if needs, rather than norms, shaped how we live together, form relationships and organize institutions? Centering on this question, Deixis & Needs, the first institutional solo exhibition by Ren Loren Britton, curated by Sylvia Sadzinski, is an expansive, multi-sensory installation that brings together sculptural objects, textiles and sound. The linguistic concept of deixis refers […]
Pleasure garden
Louise Paramor, born 1964 in Sydney, is a guest at Künstlerhaus Bethanien for one year in 1999/2000 as part of the International Studio Program of the Australia Council, Visual Arts/Craft Board. Louise Paramor obtains her working materials from the almost inexhaustible pool of everyday objects – cheap, small decorative objects and materials made of fabric, […]
Memory Is a Strange Bell
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) and Künstlerhaus Bethanien jointly present works by the recipients of the Berlin Senate’s 2025 Visual Arts Work Grant. Staged in parallel across both venues, the exhibition gathers international positions from artists living and working in Berlin. The show once again highlights the vital role that reliable funding structures play in the […]
This is not a Dance Film
In This is not a Dance Film, the dancer and photographer become mutually active participants in a choreography where the act of filming itself becomes the driving force. The dancer responds to the camera, and the camera responds to the body – a loop of movement, gaze, and control emerges. At first, the roles seem […]