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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 […]
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!
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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 […]