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, […]
AZIZ HAZARA
Die visuelle Erkundung meiner Werke nimmt in einer Vielzahl von künstlerischen Medien Gestalt an, von partizipatorischen Installationen bis zu Klanglandschaften, von Video bis Fotografie, von Text bis zu programmierten Sprachen. Mein Interesse an Fragen der Erinnerung, des Archivs, der Überwachung, des Panoptikums und der Politik der Repräsentation ist tief in der Geopolitik und dem nicht […]
AZIZ HAZARA
“The visual exploration of my Works takes shape across a variety of artistic media, from participatory installations to soundscape, from video to photography, from text to programmed languages. My interest in the issues of memory, archive, surveillance the panopticon and the politics of representation, is deeply entrenched in the geopolitics and the never-ending conflict that […]
THEODOULOS POLYVIOU & DAKIS PANAYIOTOU
Bellapais Abbey, the ruin of a 13th century monastery in northern Cyprus, is the subject of investigation for the site-specific, virtual installation Transmundane Economies. Testament to many lives, following the different colonial periods over the centuries, the monastery went through changes, architectural but also cultural, organizational and operational. Theo & Daki address the long-lasting, shape-shifting […]
KATRIN JAQUET
In her work, Katrin Jaquet considers the medium of photography and its modes of operation. She is particularly interested in how the technical, aesthetic and psychological aspects of photography are intertwined. The series “neg” deals with family photos. Starting from a very personal angle, Jaquet approaches issues that go beyond the individual. After the death […]
BIRGIT DIEKER
The relationship between Self as Skin and Self as in the Skin is particularly important for Birgit Dieker’s artistic thinking. She is thinking of skin not only as the outer surface of the body, but also as the boundary between inside and outside, private and public, between the self and the world. For her, skin […]
Manonamanamono is how Junko Maruyama calls her sculptures made of homemade soap, a large number of which occupy the interior of a tent constructed of thin fabric coated with soap. The name suggests that the circumscription of her objects is something raw and ephemeral. The process of material extraction and processing takes on a special […]
WINDOW DISPLAY
Mykyta Lyskov Imaginary Landscapes 4:35min Ukraine 2020 *1983, lives and works in Dnipro, Ukraine https://www.instagram.com/nikitaliskov/ The minimalist experimental film “Imaginary Landscapes” by Mykyta Lyskov sequences hundreds of small drawings in a flickering rhythm. From this seemingly steady horizontal movement emerge infinite landscapes of ink stains, colour smears, pencil marks and paper tear edges that […]
CHAONG-WEN TING
Chaong-Wen Ting’s works often deal with fragments from a bygone era. Applying an archaeological approach, he travels into the past along the boundary of fact and fiction, creating novel links with an innate logic. The background to his exhibition lies in the park of Holzdorf estate near Weimar, where Dr. Otto Krebs gathered an important […]