Greg Semu
Greg Semu’s work centres on themes such as identity, cultural expulsion, the influence of colonialism on indigenous cultures, and the effects of colonialist transfiguration. Semu’s artistic practice is expressed in photographic series and sound-video recordings, which the artist often combines in space-consuming installations. He creates atmospheric environments and stages dialogues, which comment on and ironically […]
Susa Templin
Susa Templin’s interest is directed toward space – on the one hand with its objective, architectonic structure and on the other as a setting for subjective experiences. Over the years, a concise photographic work has evolved from the cross-fading and permeation of these perceptual forms, manifest not only in individual photos and motif series but […]
Roland Boden
Roland Boden’s works are based on 3-D architectural models, which are created at the computer and function as rough perspective sketches. The foundation to these models are comprehensive collections containing the artist’s own photo series, supplemented by material from various media and film stills. These shots of largely interchangeable urban peripheral areas and suburbs – […]
Window Display
Breathe Deep is a kaleidoscope of 80’s and 90’s popular culture with dozens of localized perspectives, mixing two- and three-dimensional representations without physical constraints. The resulting virtual sculpture unifies these disparate layers, either captured from real-world objects like plastic toys and fake plants or inspired from digital artifacts like animated GIFs or fish swarms originating […]
The mechanical corps
The Mechanical Corps. On the trail of Jules Verne was originally created by curators Christoph Tannert and Peter Lang (†) for the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, where it was first presented in summer 2014. The Mechanical Corps has now moved on to Dortmund, where the exhibition will be on display at Dortmunder U until 12 July, 2015. The Dortmund […]
Window Display
A static black background; bright, rhythmically sliding planes – TURRET begins in an abstract clarity that suggests a digital origin. The gradually expanding gaze of the camera increasingly dissolves the visual composition’s planarity and reveals details, which refer to an aged, inhomogeneous material arrangement. Kämmerer’s body of filmic works provides an indication on the construction […]
Chia-En Jao
Chia-En Jao’s artistic practice is expressed in experimental series, which explore ideas of identity, borders and collective experience, and also fathom the relations of power under different aesthetic and political regimes. The works resulting from such study – mainly videos, project-based installations, light and video projections – often involve the viewer as an actor within […]
Falkenrot Prize 2015
Initiated in 2005, the Falkenrot Prize is being awarded for the ninth time in 2015. Berlin-based painter Peter Krauskopf (born in 1966) is this year’s Falkenrot prize-winner. The prize is awarded by Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin. Previous prize-winners have been SEO (2005), Maik Wolf (2006), Sven Drühl (2007), Torben Giehler (2008), Tony Matelli (2011), Slawomir Elsner […]
Stary Mwaba
Stary Mwaba follows a socio-political starting point in his painting as well as his installation-like works, generating links between the current socio-economic situation in Zambia, his country of origin, and historical events. His installation in Künstlerhaus Bethanien deals with an event in Zambian history that was significant in a utopian as well as an historical […]
Elizabeth Willing
Willing’s creative work is founded on her fascination with foods, their transformation through preparation, and eating as a performative experience. Repeatedly, she uses new ingredients as material for her work, preferring those containing sugars as well as industrial ready-made products: on the one hand, these are very stable in form, while as organic materials, they […]