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 […]
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Thomas Scheibitz The Overview of Episodes 193min D 1999 – 2006 *1968, lives and works in Berlin https://www.thomasscheibitz.de https://www.instagram.com/thomasscheibitz.atelier/ The painter and sculptor Thomas Scheibitz is known for his extensive research work, which has been published in numerous artist’s books. In the video work “The Overview of Episodes”, his interest in typography in connection […]
Chen Yi (Chih-Chien Chen)
In his exhibition, Chen Yi refers to the Gaia hypothesis, which was developed by microbiologist Lynn Margulis and geochemist James Lovelock in the 1970s. Their hypothesis states that the Earth and its biosphere can be seen as a living entity; one that, when viewed from space, appears as a single animate organism formed by individual […]
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Melanie Glück *1993, lives and works in Berlin Uninhabited Tranquility, Germany 2020, 1:08 min, loop. https://www.instagram.com/ynaalem The work “Uninhabited Tranquility” explores the relationship between contemporary fashion and advertising photography and computer-generated imagery (CG). Both stimulate and homogenize each other in their idealized aesthetics and converge towards a kind of hyperrealism. CG worlds are oriented towards a perfectly […]
Sara Rönnbäck
In Liminal Observations, the artist Sara Rönnbäck deals with changes of materials in urban space, as well as in nature. Her sculptures and installations are reminiscent of plastiglomerates, a term used to describe the coming and holding together of different sediments by means of molten plastic. Like the striking “bowerbird”, which sorts and collects the […]
Kandis Friesen
Kandis Friesen’s solo exhibition These arms of mine is grounded inthe relations of the materiality of stone, memory, and power. Thinking through their distributed formations in the world around us – as in architectures, monuments or landscapes – the artist began this work with the Schwerbelastungskörper (german:Heavy Load-Bearing Body), a giant concrete column in the Tempelhof […]
Mike Bourscheid
In Sunny Side Up and other sorrowful stories, Mike Bourscheid stages costumes, props and his new film Agnes into a walk-in spatial installation. As is often the case in his artistic work, he plays with interpersonal relationships. Based on film props and inspired by experiences of his childhood and the relationship with his single mother as […]
Ouassila Arras
In her artistic work, Ouassila Arras questions cultures of memory, biographies and narrative structures and illustrates accesses to and exclusions from society. To illustrate this, she symbolically uses natural materials that surround us in everyday life. In her exhibition UNDER LINE, she shows a floor installation that changes over the course of the exhibition, inspired […]
Tsuyoshi Anzai
Tsuyoshi Anzai uses objects that characterize and structure our natural environment, our homes, our toolboxes or kitchens to create large-scale installations, kinetic sculptures and other beings. In his solo exhibition “Grounded” at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, the audience is confronted with enlarged packaging that one finds randomly in public space, now installed on the exhibition floor. Hybrid […]
VAN GOGH TV
“Piazza virtuale” by the artists’ group Van Gogh TV was not only the biggest art project ever to have been on TV – from a contemporary perspective, the project was also a precursor to present-day social media. The ground-breaking television event, which took place during documenta IX in 1992, was a TV experiment in which […]