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. […]
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 […]
OPEN WINDOW
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 […]
OPEN WINDOW
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 […]