Daniel M Thurau
“The title of the exhibition is a paraphrase of the Rolling Stones song by the same name, which occurred to me during one of my rare meals in the aforementioned fast food restaurant. It illustrates – not without self-irony – the generally large gap between aspiration and reality, wish and being, and imagined and actual […]
Elizabeth Hoak-Doering
Elizabeth Hoak-Doering’s current artistic practice adopts and transforms signs and inscriptions of a past condition humaine. As an anthropologist, Hoak-Doering is particularly interested in historical sites of changes of political identities or individual lives. Some years ago she began her work with ancient forms of graffiti by making rubbings of ships that were, for several […]
Ofir Dor
The paintings on show in Woman with a Mirror, Man with a Camera were executed between 2016–2017 and feature couples in erotic situations rendered through a language where symbolism, the esoteric and art history intermingle – an inexhaustible source to Dor for ideas and inspiration. The mostly nude couples are located in the domestic setting […]
Riccardo Benassi
Riccardo Benassi’s works are the result of an articulated assemblage of images, sounds, colors, texts, design objects, and diverse materials, which are put together to generate large-scale installations, videos, performances, artist’s books, and sculptural elements. Benassi reflects on the impact of technology in our daily relation to space, and how technological devices have radically altered […]
Orawan Arunrak
Using tools like pencils, pens, paper, but also photography and the internet, Orawan Arunrak creates works that take the forms of drawing, painting and installation. Arunrak’s most recent series of works communicate through conversations that focus on elements and mixtures of Thailand, Germany, Vietnam, and elsewhere, encompassing religion, otherness and gender, as defined by customs, […]
Window Display
Basic Instinct Germany 2008 3:55 min In his found footage work Moritz Frei focuses on one of the iconic moments of cinema. In Paul Verhoeven’s 1992 released thriller Basic Instinct Sharon Stone plays an enigmatic murder suspect and while an interrogation she crosses her legs, exposing her vulva. This scene was discussed controversially and cited […]
Kasper Akhøj
Kasper Akhøj’s work is focused on the media of photography, film and sculpture. For his exhibition at Künstlerhaus Bethanien he presents a selection of photographs from his work WELCOME (TO THE TEKNIVAL). The work consists of some 200 photo- graphs in total, taken between 2008 and 2017 during the ongoing restoration of “E.1027, Maison en […]
Lyndal Walker
For many years Walker’s photographs and installations have explored fashion and states of undress in order to contemplate identity, emotional states and the nature of time. Her portraits of both men and women dressing and undressing have challenged gender roles and power dynamics between model and photographer. Changing Room extends her interests onto paravent screens, […]
Céline Burnand
Burnand’s practice spans over drawing, film and performance. Her work investigates analogies between different times, places and personas in history. Departing from a protestant family heritage, she turns to other cultural groups in search of their visual legacy. She is especially intrigued by the relationship between emotion and culture and the way it shapes mythologies […]
Shubigi Rao
Artist and writer Shubigi Rao’s interests range from archaeology, neuroscience and science history, natural history, scholarship and exploration, to language, libraries, and historical acts of cultural genocide. She collects the detritus of our civilisations, whether objects/garbage, or discredited and unfashionable knowledge and ideas, relying on wordplay and humour to explore the tenuous line between existence […]