Lauryn Youden
At the center of Lauryn Youden’s exhibition are two wall-mounted altars, each measuring just under four meters long. Filled with dried flowers, medicine, herbs, books, candles, and ritual-based objects, the content of these altars documents the survival strategies she has developed to navigate an ableist world. Visionary of Knives is a space of retreat and […]
Johanna Terhechte
The centerpiece of Johanna Terhechte’s exhibition at Künstlerhaus Bethanien is an image of one disembodied hand passing a piece of a paper to another. “Paper is the most two-dimensional thing I can think of,” the artist explains, “but by being handed to someone else it suddenly becomes something completely different.” It’s this fascination with perspective […]
Ingrid Lønningdal
Encompassing painting, drawing, sculpture, text, and textiles, Ingrid Lønningdal’s practice, according to the artist, “seeks to provide an understanding of the spaces we inhabit.” Often using architecture as a starting point, many of her works are the result of detailed building studies conducted in her native Norway and abroad. The first room of Lønningdal’s exhibition […]
Amélie Laurence Fortin
Amélie Laurence Fortin’s exhibition SUNBURST at Künstlerhaus Bethanien is the result of a months-long experiment with solar energy. Durign this time, using nothing but a length of red foil and objects, she could find in the kitchen, the artist staged a solitary performance, playing with the beams of light that entered through a skylight into […]
Yang Chi-Chuan
In her site-specific installations, Yang Chi-Chuan employs storytelling to explore relations between people, places, objects and events. In past works, she has mined her own memories to create site-responsive sound pieces that draw connections between her own personal history and the exhibition space, but more recently she has turned to myths and fables, using these […]
Rie Nagai
In Japan, “Kuuki wo yomu,” which loosely translates as “reading the air,” refers to the custom of adapting one’s behavior according to the mood of any given situation. Bound up in ideas of social conformity, this concept is central to the work of the Rie Nagai, whose emotionally charged indoor landscape paintings explore the cultural […]
Shoufay Derz
Comprising photography, sculpture and video, Shoufay Derz’s exhibition at Künstlerhaus Bethanien has its roots in earlier performances at Gulgadya Muru, the grass tree pathway in the Manly Dam Reserve, Sydney, in which participants were invited to paint themselves green and “emerge” as eels. Titled Loving the Alien, the performance has since turned into a major […]
Katsuhiko Matsubara
Comprised of thick layers of vibrantly hued oil paint, Katsuhiko Matsubara’s largescale canvases often provoke a visceral reaction in their audience. Through his repeated use of pink and red—which brings to mind internal organs and blood filled veins—the artist highlights the physicality of his medium, resulting in surfaces that disgust and delight in equal measure. […]
Yurika Sunada
Interested in mechanisms of perception, Yurika Sunada creates installations that incorporate movement, light, and sound. Having studied space design with scenographer Nobutaka Kotake before switching her focus to sculpture, Sunada is attuned to the ways in which these elements can be manipulated to give form to abstract thoughts, feelings and processes. Her most recent project, […]
WINDOW DISPLAY
Snow Yunxue Fu *1987, lives and works in New York Gorges, USA 2018, 4:15 min https://snowyunxuefu.com/ The experimental animation “Georges” moves between the traditional lines of Chinese as well as Western landscape painting and their transfer to digital. In the oversaturated tones of the RGB color scale the mountain ranges, cloud banks and river courses are […]