WINDOW DISPLAY
MARIA KULIKOVSKA Documentation of the performance “254” 2014 The name of the performance “254” is identical to the refugee number that Kulikovska was given while leaving her homeland Crimea several months earlier. During the performance the artist wrapped herself in a Ukraine flag and, without official permission, laid down on the main staircase in the […]
WORKING HARD, WEN-YING SHE & PO-YU KUO
Since 1990s, the migrant workers which mostly from Southeast Asian have brought and shaped Taiwanese society into a multicultural environment. For this upcoming show, we focus on the field research among the social groups of Taiwan ABK*. We will conduct on-site installations with images and sound recordings from Taiwan from a personal and artistic point […]
Hsiang Lin Wang
Fermata is a musical term – a pause of unspecified length on a note or rest. Parsifal is the last work by German composer Richard Wagner, which fuses the philosophy of the West and the Buddhism of the East. Ultimately, what it aims to present is the importance of people’s “compassion”. The human species as […]
Lotte Nielsen
Letters from St. Petersburg is an extension of Lotte Nielsen’s previous artistic work documenting groups of young LGBTQ* people across different cultures, most recently in Turkey, the US and now Russia. Her films center on exploration of group identity and the repercussions of national political conditions in every facet of these individuals’ lives. In poetic, […]
Andreas Müller-Pohle
Andreas Müller-Pohle is a Berlin-based media artist and the founder and publisher of European Photography, an independent art magazine for contemporary photography and new media. He has published the major works of media philosopher Vilém Flusser, available in the eleven-volume Edition Flusser, including the seminal Philosophy of Photography, which has been translated into over twenty […]
Lutz Friedel
For many years, Lutz Friedel’s paintings were recognisable due to their specific figurative character. Recently, he has permitted a lavish number of contractions and brushstrokes to interact – triggered by a complex painting process that comes about in phases and over several paintings simultaneously. The motto is liberation through intensification, the in-cluster working that was […]
WINDOW DISPLAY
Originally conceived as a 2-channel work, Mykola Ridnyi’s short films were made 10 years ago, before the Ukraine conflict in 2014 and the Russian-Ukrainian war since February 2022. Their video footage preserves locations that capture the complexities of Ukrainian history in personal vignettes and resonate with current events. The setting in the first film, “Shelter,” […]
Robert Seidel
In tech companies, universities and artist studios, machines work through and learn the history of mankind. Copyright dissolves; distinctions between original, imitation or inferior reproduction erode. No origin, no responsibility, no clear bias – just a primordial soup that can be transformed into any form without questioning knowledge systems and hierarchies. In this silent, but […]
Gesche Würfel
31 years after German reunification, the division of the country is quite evidently still present and palpable in terms of the economy, politics and psychology. Gesche Würfel, who has lived abroad for almost two decades, sets out with her project to search for clues to the former inner-German divide along the 160 km long Berlin […]
FALKENROT PRIZE 2022 – CONSTRUCT YOUR STORIES 2
The Falkenrot Prize was established by the Dutch collector couple Astrid and Arie de Knecht in 2005 and has been awarded by Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin ever since. The prize is presented to artists who develop their own distinctive ideas and forms of expression, defining their positions on the basis of original criteria. So far, […]