Ende vom Lied
The exhibition Ende vom Lied looks back at the expatriation of songwriter Wolf Biermann from the GDR in autumn 1976. Although that event was forty years ago, memories of the artist’s audacious poems and songs and his courageously expressed criticism of those wielding power in the unjust state of the GDR are still very much […]
Ende vom Lied
The exhibition Ende vom Lied looks back at the expatriation of songwriter Wolf Biermann from the GDR in autumn 1976. Although that event was forty years ago, memories of the artist’s audacious poems and songs and his courageously expressed criticism of those wielding power in the unjust state of the GDR are still very much […]
Window Display
Weresheglanspertheere United Kingdom 2014, 5:07 min Buerkner was a painter before he applied his conceptual and compositional ideas to the moving image, focusing on perceptual process chains. Keeping a strict structure of isolated sequences each individual scene in Weresheglanspertheere contains an unique, abstracting optical apparatus. These systems deconstruct online news footage by isolating and stacking […]
Michael Kutzner
Michael Kutzner is a contemporary classical artist. Many of his paintings cross the mind like dark thoughts. Throughout his variations of steamrollers, tar machines, asphalt cookers, shunting engines and armoured gun carriers, crucifixes and black/ red-tainted urban landscapes, this tristesse never subsides, although his painting, whose roots lie in East Berlin, has gained in nuances […]
Window Display
DCT SYPHONING: VECTORS. Madness or Hell? Netherlands 2016, 4:28 min Rosa Menkman is well known for her theoretical as well as practical exploration of the aesthetical possibilities of glitches – unexpected results of corrupting digital and analogue processes. In this work the stoical motion of first-person computer games reveals a smeared landscape, dissolving the dichotomy […]
Salwa Aleryani
In her installation objects Aleryani pursues a critical archaeology of the public space. She focuses especially on the way these physical and socio-cultural areas and their infrastructures mutually depend, shape and change each other. She examines sites, structures and colletive rituals by extracting common objects and materials from their contexts and transferring them into installation […]
Aline Alagem
Aline Alagem experiments in her large-format paintings and occasional video-animations with representations of passion, beauty, pain and pornography, aiming at showing the discrepancy between the pictorial appearances and the actual structures and motivations, which are no longer recognisable in such “hyper images”. With Skin, Tone Alagem presents a series of hyperrealistic paintings, and for the […]
Ann Oren
In her cinematic works and video installations, Ann Oren addresses the interdependence of spectating and acting as an expression of current identity, deriving from social media. Oren reflects on questions of interactivity as suggested by platforms such as Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, through a margin of deliberate publicly exposed yet intimate behaviors. The Supreme Spasm […]
Polys Peslikas
The new work of Polys Peslikas studies on variation / MALEREI at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, is a series of large-and-small scale oil paintings based on a variegated study of one constructed image: a face-less, male figure with a turban. Despite the unmistakable concreteness of the image depicted in each of the seven paintings of the exhibition, […]
Charles van Otterdijk
Over the past years Charles van Otterdijk has been working on the project Double Centre, based around the discovery of two locations on the German-Polish border. Double Centre addresses the culture of surveillance and the way in which information is controlled and mediated. Through photographs, texts and objects the artist explains how he came across […]