MARÍA DALBERG
María Dalberg’s video piece Uncontainable truth (2021) is at the centre of her first solo exhibition in Berlin, which bears the same title. In her practice, she often uses artefacts and archival work, collects historical accounts, writes fictional and non-fictional texts, and makes use of her autobiographical writing and field recordings. For the exhibition at […]
Rhys Himsworth
Rhys Himsworth’s work utilises redundant electronics as a medium. For the last decade the artist has hacked, appropriated, and re-assembled various electronic and digital devices to create installations. For his most recent body of work he has developed a home-made shredding device for the crushing and separating of electronic waste, which he then processes. He […]
Daniel Lie
“The division of biology and geology or nonlife and life is not merely a division that is artificial. It is a division that is dangerous.” – Elizabeth Povinelli, Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism, 2016 In recent months, Daniel Lie has used the studio at Künstlerhaus Bethanien as a research base for exploring the processes of […]
Santiago Mostyn
To enter Santiago Mostyn’s exhibition space at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, one passes by a wall work conceived as the ‘reverse side’ of the main installation. The wall is covered with reproductions of pages from Jet Magazine, accompanied by the double-sided photographic work Ghost/Monument. Sharing a single frame, Ghost is an image that appeared on a roll […]
Dante Buu
Dante Buu’s “thigh high” reaches for the fine, enduring line between the obvious and the insinuated, between the private and the public, between attention and ignorance. In the passages of time, the exhibition skirts the question: and you, do you also feel constantly that one side of you is seen, whilst the other side remains hidden? Dante […]
WINDOW DISPLAY
Sara Hoffmann *1985, lives and works in Berlin Without Worries, Germany 2020, 23:22 min http://www.sara-hoffmann.de Every year in October, the tubs of exotic plants in the park of Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam are brought into the Orangery to protect them from wind and cold. This storage highlights the commodification of living things and addresses the colonial practice […]
Melanie Jame Wolf
In her solo exhibition Two Years Elapse Between the Third and Fourth Act at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Melanie Jame Wolf presents a video installation consisting of a new film and a series of textile works. The exhibition explores the idea of “the rehearsal” in both theatrical and everyday contexts, understanding it as a strategy of repetitive […]
Yuya Suzuki
In search of the ideal image and the sign system of a potential world that can be shared universally across cultures, Yuya Suzuki works on “archegraphs”, as he calls to them. He responds to the mundane things in the city, such as trash, architectural details, walls covered by torn posters or graffiti, shapes in nature […]
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. […]