Placeholder
In her exhibition Placeholder at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Sara Wu places the audience in an unusual spatial situation: an elongated construction blocks the wandering gaze, a contemplative lingering seems impossible. Blank spaces in the walls emphasize the architectural construction and its placement in the space, interrupted by sculptural elements that appear like the memory of a […]
Voices
Voices is a video essay that explores the history of channeling practices and their development within the context of New Age spirituality and emerging technologies. The work blends archival footage, found material, and original content to examine how channeling—the act of giving one’s voice to unseen forces—serves as a tool for both personal and collective […]
Do You Have Something to Fight for?
What is worth fighting for in the face of current crises and a democracy that is increasingly under pressure? What themes characterize the history of social democracy and how are these reflected in the extensive art collection of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung? These questions form the starting point of the two-part exhibition to mark the 100th anniversary […]
The Practical Guide to Gardening
In his exhibition The Practical Guide to Gardening, Esvin Alarcón Lam intertwines intimate photography with his deep, ongoing exploration of bamboo—a material both symbolically and practically significant to his artistic practice. The artist uses bamboo as both a metaphor and a medium to explore themes such as identity, queerness, and colonialism. At the heart of […]
Liminal State(less)
In her exhibition Liminal State(less), Tini Aliman explores the state of ambiguity, disorientation and transition. The artist considers socio-topographical borders and transit zones as deeply political sites and actions. She examines the turbulent coexistence of social infrastructures and various ecosystems that surround urban space. The artist contemplates the feeling of displacement and homesickness – a […]
Wong Ping
After 10 years, the screening series “Phantom Horizons” comes to an end. More than 60 innovative artists from all over the world have been presented in the Window Display of Künstlerhaus Bethanien. To celebrate this diversity and potentials, I am pleased to present a double feature bridging the past and future of experimental moving image. […]
Lillian Schwartz
After 10 years, the screening series “Phantom Horizons” comes to an end. More than 60 innovative artists from all over the world have been presented in the Window Display of Künstlerhaus Bethanien. To celebrate this diversity and potentials, I am pleased to present a double feature bridging the past and future of experimental moving image. […]
tout geste est renversement
The exhibition “tout geste est renversement” by Laurianne Bixhain (lives and works in Luxembourg) invites visitors into a multi- layered assemblage: a series of photographs that seem to float in sterile aluminum frames, text fragments in clusters on the walls and vibrating metal plate from which overlapping voices rise. These elements gradually combine to form […]
Perceive Shadows in Mother Tongue
When lit by a single source of light, the shadows of multiple objects projected on a surface will be of the same intensity, drawing the outlines of a chimeric pattern. Sera Yu Wen Chen aggregates shadows. Her works are composed of elements conscientiously stitched together: archives, testimonies, anecdotes, suIused with both humor and quiet urgency. […]
I am Your Window
Panya Clark Espinal (born in Toronto, lives and works in Toronto) moves effortlessly between different artistic media such as sculpture, installation, performance, printmaking and textile work in her practice. As an artist, researcher and storyteller, she uses various motifs and objects from the archives of her own family history, which she restages and transfers into […]