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, […]
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 […]