Window Display
HYBRID Germany 2015/ 2016 10:03 min The film Hybrid takes place in the fictitious city of Stevia in the year 3000: Using their media installation LIFE 3.0 as a film set, both artists created a future scenario in which the world is populated by “normal” people and hybrid beings of humans, flora and fauna. Along […]
David Escalona
In his site-specific project COLD FEVER, Escalona weaves a network of metaphors, and succeeds in creating images which are almost impossible to describe in language and words. New approaches to the discourse around illness, weakness and vulnerability are presented as an alternative to the norm of our world and its tendency towards self-optimization. Escalona’s installative cosmos […]
Anne Zahalka
Australian artist Anne Zahalka lived on her own for the first time during a working stay at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in 1986/87, separated from everything that was familiar to her in a country with a strange culture and language. She found enjoyment in this sense of ‘being foreign’ and the resultant anonymity, which enabled her to […]
Zahra Rashid
Zahra Rashid works with drawing, printing techniques and installation, concerning herself above all with the reproduction and multiple representation of objects in various media. Rashid’s artistic practice is founded on an ongoing experimental working process in the studio. In this sense, the artist understands her exhibitions as an opportunity to represent this process, by highlighting its […]
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 […]