Seulki Ki
In her solo exhibition Do Not and Cannot are Different at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Seulki Ki decided to not traditionally show her work on the walls. Instead she presents a massive spatial installation that controls the viewer’s path, movement and perspective through the space. Fences frame the pathway and control the viewers possibilities to enter her […]
Styrmir Örn Guðmundsson
At the entrance to Styrmir Örn Guðmundsson’s solo exhibition Earth, Water, Air, Fire at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, a black hole opens as an ink drawing on paper in contrasting colours. Thousands of shoes move in a circular motion until they gradually spaghettify. The first of two exhibition rooms opens with this humorous commentary critical of capitalism. […]
Hamlet Lavastida
Cultura Profiláctica – with this title Hamlet Lavastida opens his solo exhibition at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, making use of a term from the health sector, which he believes has revealed numerous structures of a prophylactic culture during the pandemic, not only in his country of origin, Cuba, but worldwide. Lavastida is showing two immersive installations made […]
WINDOW DISPLAY
Katharina Kohl *1956, lives and works in Hamburg Erinnerungslücken / Innere Sicherheit #2, Germany 2020 , 4:22 min http://www.katharinakohl.de/ A dark chapter of recent German history is addressed in Katharina Kohl’s film. The artist approaches the NSU trial, in which the right-wing extremist terror group “National Socialist Underground” committed a total of 10 murders between 2000 and […]
OPEN WINDOW
I dreamt of Boris. He was sitting at the reception desk of your practice telling me: he is in a mood today, he is preparing the students for a competition. And it hit me, whilst I was waiting around for you, you were living the life. I am in your practice, and yes, you are […]
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This map here cannot a claim make The ground beneath our feet and what it holds is constantly on my mind. In the city called Berlin, the ground is narrated through multiple official histories and timelines. I am continually aware of its holes and slippages – messy and dense, like the swampy saturation of the […]
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Post Impalpable Rites In landscape architecture, “Desire Lines” are the imprints of illicit paths that emerge when predetermined patterns of movement are not adhered to and spaces are accessed contrary to their planning. Planned lines start from conventional navigation methods that become inscribed in everyday life over time through repetitions of norms and rituals. To […]
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In 2017, Yuya Suzuki lived in a traditional Japanese building in a small Taiwanese city. It had been built in colonial times and seemed to be a common pre-World War II era building. Suzuki was struck by how rare buildings in this style had become. In Japan, these architectures, unless counted as cultural assets, are […]
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Pachakuti time! (Surfboard) The exhibition comprises different formal researches as well as works in progress driven by the lockdown of Andrés Pereira Paz. A Pachakuti is a quechua term that implies an overturn in space and time. By taking this term as a point of departure Pereira Paz understands drawing as a surfboard navigating troubled waters in […]
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About Invisible Fear is a metaphor for the dread we feel towards death and invisible beings. We have an interest in things that cannot be seen but easily sensed. I started using the format of a will, imagining I was encountering death. The focus moves from written language to a performance. The movements themselves are recorded, […]