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. […]
Chih-Chien Wang
Chih-Chien Wang works with photography, video, objects and text, and occasionally also integrates performative and sound elements into his works. He devotes himself to the process of approaching individual perceptions of reality; to do so, he investigates the constructs of language, meaning, identity and memory while simultaneously observing the artistic process of creativity. One characteristic […]
Sveinn Fannar Jóhannsson
Sveinn Fannar Jóhannsson works with photography, sculpture, curating, and the production of artists’ books. In two different projects at Künstlerhaus Bethanien he is staging archival materials from internet sources. He presents Untitled (Newspaper), a piece that the visitors can touch, dismantle, and even take home, as well as Untitled (Holes), an installation in which photographs […]
Tatiana Macedo
Tatiana Macedo works with film, video, photography and sound, applying these media in an interdisciplinary approach to penetrate deep into specific contexts, documenting and discursively transforming them, via the editing, in a critical and yet sensitive way. In Künstlerhaus Bethanien is presenting a new body of work that reworks a private photographic ‘album’ belonging to […]
The Museum of Longing and Failure
The Museum of Longing and Failure (MOLAF) is a collecting entity established in 2010 by Andrew Taggart and Chloe Lewis. Its form takes shape through a sustained conversation with living artists and collectives, whose contributed sculptural works form the basis of ongoing installations and interventions. Through presentation, production, and publishing, the MOLAF strives to constantly […]
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 […]