Vartan Avakian
VARTAN AVAKIAN’s work is based on the idea that all data exist in sculptural form and only appear as a ‘fossil’. Consequently, memory too is seen as an activity of excavating and deciphering data from traces and remains. In order to explore practices of cultural production and commemoration, the artist employs different media such as video, […]
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Kaputt / Broken D 2016 7:02 min In devastating tableaux, the animated documentation Broken seeks access to a dark part of German post-war history: The story follows the voices of Gabriele Stötzer and Birgit Willschütz, who were imprisoned for political reasons in Hoheneck Castle, the most notorious women’s prison in East Germany. They report on […]
Timur Celik | Erdoğan Zümrütoğlu
In an exhibition entitled Eyewitness, artists Timur Celik and Erdogan Zümrütoglu are presenting works characterized by great sensitivity to the current political events in war zones, executed using painterly means in a moving combination of commitment to European tradition and astute contemporaneity. Eyewitness is the title of a series of small-format paintings on paper and […]
Brook Andrew
Brook Andrew’s interdisciplinary arts practice uses new and historical forms, images and text to draw comparisons between Australian and international histories of colonialism and modernity. He aims to make forgotten stories visible and generate new dialogue around dominant narratives and blind-spots in pedagogical and artistic practices, offering alternative choices for interpreting history in the world […]
Muriel Gallardo Weinstein
Gallardo Weinstein’s artistic practice is interdisciplinary, focusing on the discovery, exploration and acquisition of spaces, whether cultural, geographical or intellectual in nature. The centrepiece and title-giving work of her current exhibition, On weaving a basket, is a large-format textile sculpture – an oversized basket, which Gallardo has fabricated in time-consuming work by hand: the different threads […]
Tomoyuki Ueno
In the exhibition Schwarzwald at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Ueno presents objects that are historically fundamental in their basic forms within our surrounding. From Gothic window frames, street lamps and fences, he shapes new realities in the space, following a strict aesthetic code with a strong reference to Minimal Art. Ueno identifies the structural potential of his […]
Ze Wei
Ze Wei’s multimedia projects evolve from questions about history and its re-contextualisation against the background of current geopolitical conditions. In regard to the history of her home country Taiwan, she is particularly interested in the possible meanings and interpretation of concepts such as nation, identity, territory and borders, as well as their manifestations in the […]
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Icon UK 2017 8:07 min Icon is a reflection upon the dualities that constitute the human condition such as “society vs. individual” and “language vs. meaning”. It shows a constantly changing array of icons, which populate the screens of our phones and computers. Our desire for individual expression is what generates a strong ambiguity, as […]
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Building Belgium 2003 12:00 min Anouk de Clercq’s film is a hyper-precise dissection of architectural structures, inspired by the works of the Belgian architects’ collective Robbrecht & Daem. Accompanied by Anton Aeki’s glimmering score, minimalist silhouettes of windows, doors, staircases, floors and columns emerge from darkness, constructing a fictitious architecture in the mind of the […]
Aneta Kajzer / Manuel Stehli
Two positions in painting come together in the double exhibition Out of Touch / Out of Time, postulating an affinity in their very distinctions from one another: Aneta Kajzer experiments on large-format canvases, with settings of highly contrasting colours and develops her motifs initially through an intuitive process, inasmuch as layer after layer of colour is […]