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.
Window Display
Property Division (Traversing Terrain) USA 2014, 3:55 min Virtual markings disaggregate our modern world. Their multifaceted transitions into reality are often aligned to borders, houses, streets or construction sites. In the US there is an additional system of neon spray marks, reflecting infrastructural divisions and temporal developments of property. But its complex color code is going […]
Juuso Noronkoski
Juuso Noronkoski examines the borderlines between the photographic image and its forms of perception in the real world. He links objects found on the spot with photos documenting things long past, and combines them to produce photographic still-lifes and sculptural objects, so that the incorporated photographs not only function as windows looking back to other […]