Josée Pedneault
Glazial-Kosmogonie is a multi-element installation. The various images are not what they purport to be; they invite the viewer to question the nature of what they see. It combines photographs with extracts of historical materials to examine constructs of knowledge and truth. The project departs from the early 20th century pseudo-science “World Ice Theory (Welteislehre)”, […]
Andrea Brandão
An uncertain image is by definition unreliable. An image can be true or fake and we as a contemporary society, saturated by deceiving images, need to be critical about them in order to overcome a shallow, one-dimensional experience. Andrea Brandão’s exhibition UNCERTAIN IMAGE questions and explores the effects of such true and false (self-)images. A […]
Muhannad Shono
In his interdisciplinary practice Muhannad Shono concerns himself with the mechanization of ritual forms of life and practices in the wake of digitalization, so investigating the significance of the ritual and its emotional determination. What defines the contemporary forms of ritual acts? In the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Shono will be showing the first phase of his […]
Window Display
Steglitz House South Africa/ Germany 2009–2010 9:00 min Steglitz House by Bridget Baker was filmed on 16mm inside a miniature construction of a 1930s West Berlin villa. The camera slowly explores the detailed interior and exterior of the upper-class architecture, mapping a dense rhizome of personal mythologies. Since the miniature objects have different scales, some […]
Berlinzulage
Berlinzulage West Berlin / Art / 1980s The title of this project, “Berlinzulage”, refers to the extra, tax-free allowance of eight per cent paid to every employee in West-Berlin by the state during the time of the Berlin Wall. In this way an attempt was made to stem the flow of production means and labour […]
Closed for Renovation
Due to renovation works and subsequent install, our gallery spaces will be closed between June 25 and August 22, 2018. We are much looking forward to welcoming you again on August 23, from 7 pm for the opening of our major summer exhibition BERLINZULAGE – Westberlin/ Kunst/ 80er Jahre. The opening night will be accompanied by […]
Thomas Kellner
In the exhibition You & Me Thomas Kellner (*1966 in Bonn) is showing 20 works by 17 artists with whom he has exchanged 10 of his works over the course of 10 years. In this exhibition, the “You” signifies first of all the other artist, whose work he exhibits in his studio and with whom […]
Guglielmo Castelli
GUGLIELMO CASTELLI’s artistic practice is based on a profound interest on the body and its relation to the space. His exhibition Goodmorning Bambino presents newly developed bright and large-scale paintings with full-figured bodies in uncertain environments that are brought to life through an intense work process. From the sketch-book to the final painting back onto […]
Samira Hodaei
Iranian artist SAMIRA HODAEI is presenting her latest ensemble of work, developed in Berlin and entitled Cinema Europe, at Künstlerhaus Bethanien. This represents the outcome and visual expression of her continued observations of border areas between public, private and abandoned architectural spaces and their influence on the existential reality of those people who have been linked with […]
Kanako Ishii
KANAKO ISHII‘s works are characterized by her engagement with metaphysical boundaries and apparent opposites – past and present, memory and forgetting, presence and absence. Her current work, a video istallation to be seen in Künstlerhaus Bethanien, is about childhood. In an encounter with texts by German philosopher Walter Benjamin, Ishii develops a visual concentration of […]