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 […]
Window Display
Clemens Behr *1985, lives and works in Berlin Barreiro, Portugal 2019, 7:34 min http://clemensbehr.com One of the characteristics of the Anthropocene is the increasing functionality of urban spaces, even unused niches are continually sealed with tar and concrete. Berlin-based artist Clemens Behr creates ephemeral artworks from found as well as everyday materials and inserts them as an […]
SWIMMING POOL – TROUBLED WATERS
Artists: Daniel Bozhkov, Nina Canell, C& Center of Unfinished Business, Mounir Gouri, Hulda Rós Gudnadóttir, Klara Hobza, Fermín Jiménez Landa, Santiago Mostyn, New Mineral Collective (Tanya Busse and Emilija Škarnulytė), Sandra Vaka, Ulrich Vogl, Ming Wong and ZEVS + Film programme by Olaf Stüber with works by Hanna Arvela, Alice Creischer, Rä di Martino, Monira Al Qadiri, […]
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 […]