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 […]
Gallery Weekend Berlin
On the occasion of Gallery Weekend Berlin, Künstlerhaus Bethanien is offering extended opening hours of the current exhibitions by Gregor Hildebrandt and Ruey Shiann Shyu. On Saturday 30th April 2016, the shows will be open as from 10 am already (until 7 pm). On Sunday, 1st May the regular opening hours will be from 2 – 7 pm. We are looking forward to your visit!
Window Display
Proofs USA 2015, 2:33 min The work by Keaton Fox investigates the fragility of human perception in the digital age by questioning the interaction of visual representation and their preservation strategies. Cameras as well as mirrors are important devices used to compartmentalize our overwhelming reality – feeding our contracting attention spans to create a numbing […]
Ruey Shiann Shyu
Ruey Shiann Shyu has been working on kinetic installations since the mid 1990s. His motor-driven sculptures are constructions of a purely mechanical nature; nevertheless, the artist succeeds brilliantly in conveying vitality, feelings and emotions with his works, as well as creating an atmosphere of wonder and nostalgia. The floor sculpture shown in the Künstlerhaus, Writer’s […]
Nguyen Thi Thanh Mai
Nguyen Thi Thanh Mai investigates themes such as belonging, origin and dislocation, wherebyshe questions the standard definitions of cultural and sexual identity. For Another World she inhabited different female identities in Berlin – from young women in her local neighbourhood, to online dating profiles where she documented the reactions to her ‘foreign’ ego. She assumed […]
Técha Noble
Técha Noble playfully shifts perspectives of gender, the body and space, often combining ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture especially drawing on the context of pop, queer and drag culture. For Crystalline Forest she is presenting a double projection depicting a trio of costumed dancers who through their movements merge to form a composite beast. Their oscillation […]
Dan Stockholm
Fascinated by places and architecture with an innate historical significance and narrative tension, Dan Stockholm practises a ‘creative archaeology’. The act of touching has become a fundamental part of his working process where for example, in 2013 days after his father’s death he methodically touched his father’s entire house centimetre by centimetre and subsequently made […]
Tobias Hauser
Tobias Hauser is showing the exhibition Cette terre est libre in the context of the first edition of our Zuspiel series this year. Inspired by a 1792 pen and ink drawing by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe of a tree of liberty with a plaque on its trunk bearing the inscription “Cette terre est libre”, Hauser […]
Chen Sai Hua Kuan
Chen Sai Hua Kuan allows components of sculpture, drawing, (sound-) installations and performance to flow into each other. His works are inspired by a questioning of the everyday environment and intuitive situations. For Sounds like… … Sai manipulates our hearing to challenge conventional perceptions and reveal alternatives possibilities of concepts of space.