Che-Wei Chen
Che-Wei Chen’s recent practice has focused on the subjectivity of people with mental disorders and reflected upon the complexity of contemporary conditions. He explores the boundaries between reality and fiction through multiple perspectives within complex structures and narratives. His work not only reveals the repressed collective unconscious but also re-examines the power and political structures […]
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Serial Parallels Hong Kong & Germany 2019 9:00 min Serial Parallels is an experimental portrait of one of the most vertical cities in the world: Hong Kong. More than 9000 high-rise buildings divide up the valuable property of its densely populated coast today. In the 1950s it was necessary to accommodate refugees who fled communist […]
Fragments From Now
An exhibition of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung at Künstlerhaus Bethanien Artists*: Saskia Ackermann, Darío Aguirre, Yevgenia Belorusets, Cihan Cakmak, Soso Dumbadze, Öncü Hrant Gültekin, Raisan Hameed, Carsten Kalaschnikow, Ksenia Kuleshova, Dariia Kuzmych, Sebastian Mühl, Neda Saeedi, Amir Tabatabaei, Vilmos Veress The world is changing: Old classification systems are being turned upside down and seem to be less […]
Hajime Mizutani
In his exhibition Behavior as Nature, Hajime Mizutani presents two spatial installations that invite the audience to contempletation and to a more conscious experience of time and space. The wall-sized installation Nostalgia (2019) in the entrance space of the Künstlerhaus gallery consists of crumpled paper painted with charcoal. Mizutani thus takes up a series of […]
Kaja Leijon
…If You Were Looking Back at Me to See Me Looking Back at You In recent years, Kaja Leijon’s artistic practice has focused on parallel work with film and photography. By subtly exploring the depths between elements and bringing them to light in an almost poetic way, Leijon aims to create fictional narratives and universes in […]
Fermín Jiménez Landa
A missing island, a country that is crossed swimming from pool to pool, a motorbike ride into nowhere, strange whatsapps, palms and ants join together in Jiménez Landa’s installation, the individual works of which are interrelating in their meanings. Jiménez Landa’s works take the form of objects, minimalist gestures, erratic processes, or even situations that […]
Peter Flemming
“A primary goal I have as an artist is to construct complex systems that I do not fully understand, with behaviours I cannot fully predict; with the intention of attempting to understand them”. (Peter Flemming) Flemming’s works are complex systems that often resemble scientific experimental set-ups. Such systems serve as foils for him to create […]
Aline Bouvy
In her exhibition PUP, Aline Bouvy simulates a public square, a promenade for the public and a place that is not clearly situated in the present. The advertising posters on the walls are a product of Bouvy’s artistic examination of the magazine “Die Frechheit. A magazine of humour. At the same time program of the […]
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Hydromanie Germany 2019 9:33 min The film “Hydromanie” by Gudrun Krebitz bridges a rarely explored gap between the static and the moving image. By means of filmed nature impressions, such as water surfaces, landscape panoramas and weather phenomena, the artist expands the reception of her static drawings. These drawings, created on paper, show a dense […]
Open Studios #2 | 2019
The following artists will open their studios and give insight into their current projects: 1st floor Irina Ojovan (MD) Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir (IS) Jorge Villarreal (US) Sara Issakharian (IR) Mikael Christian Strøbek (DK) Biljana Popovic (NZ) Hyelim Cha (KR) 2nd floor Julia Jalowiec (US) Noa Nahari (IL) Chen Che-Wei (RC-Taiwan) Emi Otaguro (JP) Hajime Mizutani […]