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 […]
Song Sung Jin
In his work, Song Sung Jin makes use of photography and installation as well as film in order to convey his observations of social constellations. Starting out from ideas of an urban organism, in which a discrepancy emerges between the individual and the collective, he aims to clarify the tense relations between the individual and […]
Han Seok Hyun
Starting out from the idea that the artificial is developing more and more influence in our everyday lives, Han Seok Hyun examines this phenomenon’s various manifestations. In a multifaceted use of installation, photography and sculpture, he draws the viewer’s attention to manipulations of nature that are viewed meanwhile as a matter of course. Here, his […]
Stijn Ank
Belgian artist Stijn Ank is showing two parallel solo exhibitions at Künstlerhaus Bethanien and Galerie Michael Janssen, both entitled FRESCO. During his residency at Künstlerhaus Bethanien Ank enquired in depth into ‘the surface of the work’. Essentially his quest comes down to the question where the surface in his work ends and where space begins. The […]
Heba Y. Amin
Heba Amin’s project The Earth is an Imperfect Ellipsoid comprises several parts. It is devoted to a study of historical paradigms of technology and urban development in connection with contemporary routes of human migration. In this process Amin uses cartographic research and land surveillance techniques in order to express criticism of our usual way of […]
Yang Che-Yi
Yang Che-Yi works with photography, video, sound and installation. Repeatedly, he examines his home country Taiwan and China, with regard to the field of tension between economic boom, unbridled capitalism, and the accompanying threat to and destruction of unique landscapes. In Empty City Strategy 空城計, among other things Yang shows a series of large-format photos, concrete models […]
Vitales Echo
Following on from Umfeld Böhme (November 2015) the exhibition Vitales Echo |Vital Echo is devoted to another important artistic ‘impulse giver’ and role model, one of those personalities with the capacity to change things, and prompt innovation. Just as Böhme is regarded as having motivated the canon of East Berlin sensualism, in Vital Echo the […]
Window Display
Kapsel Germany, 2015, 6:36 min (single channel version) Kapsel (capsule) shows an enigmatic, seemingly boundless space pervaded by floating natural and everyday objects. But in contrary to cinematic predecessors, like Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point, neither a classifiable background, nor motivation or the primary catastrophe is visible. The construction of all semantic connections is left to the viewer, […]
Bernd Kirschner
Bernd Kirschner’s paintings consist of numerous layers of oils painted on canvas, which overlap and so merge into an overall image. This only reaches completion, however, in the mind of the viewer. The artist’s main interest is in this process – the patterns and nature of human vision, as well as the essence of painting. […]