FRANÇOIS LEMIEUX
Secrets alone do not produce images. Only an inward search – an intensive examination of the self and its positioning in the world – makes a new symbolic language possible. The drawings of François Lemieux (b. 1979 in Québec, Canada) are the product of such introspection. Fed by images of political and social violence conveyed […]
BLINDSPOT
The work of Lisa Kohl (b. 1988 in Luxembourg) can be understood as a conglomerate of digital media, installations, field research, documentation, staging and narration. Her artistic excavations revolve around the ephemeral, the absent and the imaginary. Aesthetic phenomena of absence, migration and situatedness play a central role in her work. In the field of […]
The Missile Factory
Yun-Pei Hsiung (b. 1985, grew up in Taipei, Taiwan) works in the realm between design and art. His practice revolves around social interventions with a design approach, a method of eliciting social action through objects in public space. His works include objects, tools and drawings used in public spaces to initiate debates on social and […]
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 […]