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Gradient Ascent UK/GR 2017 12:00min Autonomously driving cars are a reality. Even with dramatic setbacks their technology becomes an active form of story telling, overtaking the original role of mythology for predicting and understanding our future. James Bridle, artist and author of New Dark Age (2018) is dissecting technological routines and reveals the unpredictability of […]
Elia Nurvista
Elia Nurvista uses different media to focus on issues and discourses around food and eating. Her inter-disciplinary and community-based approach is based on the idea that food and eating are intrinsically linked to more abstract levels of politics, society and culture. Her Früchtlinge exhibition project at Künstlerhaus Bethanien showcases her reflections on migrants and refugees. She […]
Youngho Lee
Youngho Lee draws her inspiration from visual technologies, from cinema, film and social history and brings together elements from these various media in her work. In her immersive installations, she creates environments for experimental kinetic set-ups that provide visitors with novel experiences of time and space, alienation and familiarity. Above all, Lee’s work deals with […]
Hulda Rós Gudnadóttir
Hulda Rós Gudnadóttir’s often long-term projects result in the creation of creative documentary films, videos, multimedia installations, objects, interventions, and performances. Her current work addresses topical socio-economic aspects of her native country Iceland. In her project All is Full of Love, Gudnadóttir explores the difficult question of an ‘independent’ Icelandic identity and the associated stereotypes […]
Kyoco Taniyama
In Kyoco Taniyama’s practice, the concept of ubiety – the sense of being in a particular context, in a particular place – is omnipresent. Her multimedia installations are multi-layered interpretations of this interrelation between places, people and identities in terms of culture, history and everyday life in a particular place. Currently, Taniyama’s interest lies on […]
Oscar Enberg
No wonder Enberg suffuses his objects with too many directions. Too many capabilities. He extends their relations, pushing precisely this intertwining of the relational, of croissance, no longer so simply limited to physical vitality, to the physical limit of the body, but to their extenuated circumstances. As Nigel Thrift points out, the physical body doesn’t […]
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Plant Dreaming Deep Canada 2017 7:11 min In poetic images, Plant Dreaming Deep exposes the exhausting transitional phases of loneliness, insecurity and isolation. By means of analogue video synthesis, fine-pored textures and washed out veils of colour were created, which find a suitable complement in the pulsating soundscape of Emilie Payeur. Like misunderstood or unprocessed […]
Rendezvous with an Impulse
Starting out from Thomas Bayrle and his “aesthetic rigour of the grid” and from the “manic seriality” (Marius Babias, Kunstforum International, 1999) which has been groundbreaking for a younger generation of artists, the exhibition opens a view towards current creative processes under the influence of overlapping digital and analogue painting praxis. The aesthetics of novel […]
Letizia Romanini
Letizia Romanini conceives arrangements and processes to visualize conditions and dimensions – such as time, chance or light – that have an enduring formative influence on our lives but are not directly tangible. Her studio functions as a kind of laboratory in which she observes, experiments and analyzes: in this way, for example, she visually […]
Yunyi Liu
As in her earlier work, recently Yunyi Liu has continued to examine the border areas and overlappings of space and time, memory and history. Liu’s latest project Landscaping from History comprises a photo series of the same title as well as the sketch project A Catalogue of a Border Island’s Defensives, both produced during several excursions […]