When all else fails, try Love
Nicole Rafiki’s interdisciplinary artworks move between photography and bead work, textiles and text, and the use of memorial objects old and new. Rather than producing finished products as an end result, Rafiki (b. 1989) treats art making as a practice of remembrance, healing and cultural analysis. Her images often employ artistic strategies that avert a […]
Backing Vocals
In film production, Montage denotes the processing and structuring of the recorded image and sound material in order to give the finished film its final form and create an immersive spectacle. Individual images and different layers of sound are merged and placed in a specific order to create the impression of temporal and narrative continuity. […]
DISSONANCE.
DISSONANCE. Platform Germany, edited by Mark Gisbourne and Christoph Tannert, is a book published by DCV that surveys 81 artistic positions in the field of painting in Germany. Following the publication of the book, Künstlerhaus Bethanien is now presenting a first exhibition with 40 selected positions. With works by Tom Anholt / Mona Ardeleanu / […]
OPEN WINDOW
Singularis 12:15 min Germany 2019/22 https://raumperspektive.com Singularis is an interwoven network of synthetic body sculptures, enmeshed in a web of interactions and juxtapositions. The originating biological surfaces were scanned, translated into digital point clouds and distorted through an audiovisual granular system, carving out noise patterns and biological rhythms. Originally conceived by Kathrin Hunze (b. 1983, […]
CAROLA SPADONI
During her residency CAROLA SPADONI specifically worked on the research project “Archiving the Peripatetic Film & Video collection”. A collection of film and video footage shot by the artist since the late 1980s through a practice of using the camera as a diary, a sketchbook, a tool of engagement and contemplation. Her work deals with […]
GAËLLE CHOISNE
Presented at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, “Temple of love – To hide” is a new phase of “Temple of Love” – a long term project aiming at a global reunification of the living through the concept of love. This exhibition, freely inspired by the chapter “To hide” in Roland Barthes’s “Fragments of a lover’s discourse”, is resolutely […]
WINDOW DISPLAY
EVA L’HOEST Under Automata 4:01min Belgium 2016 * 1991, lives and works in Brussels http://www.evalhoest.com The work “Under Automata” finds a contemporary approach to the artistic group portrait. During a long distance flight over the Atlantic Ocean, EVA L’HOEST manually scanned sleeping passengers along the plane’s aisle. She used a 3D camera that got popularized […]
ELÍN HANSDÓTTIR
ELÍN HANSDOTTIR (b.1980) is a multidisciplinary artist working at the intersections of installation, sculpture, and photography. Her work explores the phenomenology of experiential perception, spatial emptiness and conceptual openness while foregrounding peripheral, relational, and embodied aspects of the artistic encounter. HANSDÓTTIR’s immersive, site-specific installations leverage sensory limitations, spatial reconfiguration, distortions of scale, and optical illusions […]
MANAMI UETAKE
“Vorbei ist nicht vorüber” is a visual exploration of the interaction of an individual or a society with their past and history. This project takes its title from the author Elias Canetti’s pithy sentence “Vorbei ist nicht vorüber (gone is not over).” He concisely formulated the necessity for a culture of remembrance with this parody […]
TİMUR ÇELİK
TIMUR ÇELIK, born in Gümüshane (Turkey) in 1960, lives and works in Berlin. TIMUR ÇELIK studied painting at Marmara University in Istanbul in the early 1980s and has since participated in group exhibitions at the Max Liebermann Haus, Berlin and the Contemporary Art Center, Ankara, among others, as well as presenting works in numerous solo […]