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In Peng Yi-Hang’s practice, photographic observation unfolds as an inquiry into boundaries—between visibility and concealment, intimacy and distance, order and spontaneity. Over the past fifteen years, Peng Yi-Hang has approached photography not merely as a means of representation but as a reflective medium, where images concern less what is seen than the act of seeing […]
Graduale 25: FLOW STATES
Flow States brings together the works of the final cohort of UdK Graduate School in an exhibition, performance and event programme that explores how infrastructures shape our daily lives and how they might open ways of imagining different futures. The exhibition marks the final chapter of the fellowship programme, closing a 15-year journey of interdisciplinary […]
Specters of Sultana
Specters of Sultana: A Speculative History of Subcontinental Science is the third chapter of the project Becoming B. With contributions by Areez Katki, Aulic Anamika, Chitra Ganesh, houaïda, Iskander Abdalla, Kei Watanabe, Leila Bencharnia, Omar Kasmani, Perera Elsewhere, Sumona Dhakal, Wooly Aziz, and Zuneera Shah, the exhibition imagines, based on the groundbreaking 1905 science fiction […]
Nnenna Onuoha, Om Bori: Waters, this deep
Waters, this deep, curated by Linnéa Meiners, is the fifth chapter of the Becoming B series at Künstlerhaus Bethanien. Nnenna Onuoha and Om Bori explore the proximity of Künstlerhaus Bethanien to the Landwehr Canal in their work. Water is an element that transports, reflects, supports, stands still, engulfs, moves, connects, and separates; an element of […]
Rachel Libeskind: It’s Just a Matter of Attitude
The exhibition series Becoming B can be understood as a public step in a process of institutional self-transformation. It accompanies and critically reflects on the ongoing transformation of Künstlerhaus Bethanien—an institution whose historically rooted name refers to its original location and its former use as a hospital. The term “Bethanien,” etymologically linked to the biblical […]
Krys Huba: All of those records; tell me, bee
With All of those records; tell me, bee – the second chapter of the project Becoming B, curated by Marie-Sophie Dorsch, Krys Huba turns his gaze inwards: Based on the lyrical figure bee, dey approaches questions of queer identity and affiliations within normative social structures. bee itself materializes in the exhibition in traces that are […]
Ontophonics
Ontophonics explores the sonic potential of Physarum polycephalum, a single-celled, multinucleated slime mold known for its distributed intelligence and adaptive behavior despite lacking a central nervous system. Using custom-designed printed circuit boards, the organism’s movements and bioelectrical signals are transformed into sound in real-time. Ontophonics proposes a new model of sound installation – one based […]
Divine Fatigue
Uri Zamir creates atmospheric stagings that are as familiar as they are irritating and blur the boundaries between reality and imagination – an approach that is strongly influenced by his background in theater. For his exhibition at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, he has developed a new series of works in which he combines pieces of furniture made […]
The Birdwatcher’s Vigil
Valinia Svoronou’s exhibition The Birdwatcher’s Vigil unfolds in an interplay of new and existing works – sculpture, moving image and publication – that use materiality, gesture and narration to approach diasporic memory, temporal ruptures and feminist forms of attention. The exhibition understands fragmentation, repetition and embodiment not as an expression of loss, but as a […]
How to puncture the sky and hear the stones sing
Tell me the story Of all the things. Beginning wherever you wish, tell even us – Theresa Hak Kyung Cha In the attempt to raise questions about narrative – Areez Katki’s preferred medium – a clear concern emerges: to question the effectiveness of a single voice anew. It is the voice of a main character […]