Wu Chuan-Lun
Wu Chuan–Lun’s artistic research focuses on the border areas between nature and the various manifestations of contemporary civilization. He works with many media, but above all with found objects, photography and computer graphics. The artist has demonstrated a repeated interest in observing animals from the perspective of human and political endeavours alien to nature. During […]
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Dance with me Austria 2016, 8:46 min In Dance with me Marianne Vlaschits devises a speculative vision of a future, where space travelling is exclusively carried out by female astronauts due to their lower energy profile. The basic concept of the poetical unfolding of this alternative universe circles around the “anthropic principle”. This philosophical consideration […]
Edgar Leciejewski
Edgar Leciejewski’s new work A Circle Full of Ecstasy comprises 77 portraits of different politicians raising their right arms in greeting. The artist collected the images from press publications over the last 16 years and, in a process of assimilation, transposed them into cyanotypes – an old photographic printing process which produces characteristic colour shades […]
Matheus Rocha Pitta
Matheus Rocha Pitta showcases his current project For the winners the potatoes. The expression “for the winners the potatoes” is taken from Joachim Maria Machado de Assis’ highly influential but almost unknown in Europe Brazilian novel Quincas Borba (1891). At Künstlerhaus Bethanien as well as at two stations on the U8 track where an installation and […]
Claudia Sarnthein
Von Alters her / From the Old is the title of Claudia Sarnthein’s new body of work. Contours of the folkloric, the Pagan and the Christian, Mesopotamia and the remote future reside, side by side, in her installation. Paintings on wood, linen and glass, alongside a group of brightly coloured ceramic and textile works hold […]
Erasmus Schröter
Leipzig-based photographer Erasmus Schröter is showing images from his photo series Contest in Künstlerhaus Bethanien. This series consists of large-format, colour portraits of young European men that Schröter photographed at various meetings and festivals of the Wave Gothic scene over the past four years. The protagonists are in fierce competition with each other regarding the […]
Kama Sokolnicka
Kama Sokolnicka’s works take various forms, from collages, objects or interventions in space to sculpture. Her working method is characterized by montage, which she sees as a conceptual process that she applies to materials as contrasting as fabric, wood, texts, songs and ideas, metal, plaster etc. She directs her attention to the austerity of objects […]
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Pixel Jungle Germany/ Spain, 2015, 3:26 min For the experimental film Pixel Jungle Klara Ravat captured urban impressions on 35mm film. The grainy and associative film material was used to create an olfactory portrait of her native town Barcelona. Above the unsteadily passing horizon lines and the impressionistic colour mixing of film grain as well as […]
Akiko Utsumi
Akiko Utsumi works in video, photography and installation. She uses these media to represent the past, future, and present in the continuity of time, highlighting its interrelational aspect. Her piece Cryptophasia is based on a photo album that she found in a flea-market in Berlin. It contains images that show different stages in the life of German twin […]
Anahita Razmi
Appropriation, transfer and re-enactment are possible key concepts with which to characterize Anahita Razmi’s artistic practice. Her works deal primarily with translocation, cultural transfer, and migration, and the associated changes in paradigms and perspectives. For her current complex of work, among other things the artist collected common articles of cheap trade, as well as linguistic patterns […]