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 […]
Choy Ka Fai
In his performances, video installations and graphic art works, Choy Ka Fai operates at the interface between art, technology and design. Fascinated by the human body and the technology of movement, he investigates patterns of movement in dance and performance. His current artistic production focuses on the question of what happens in the body during […]
Olaf Kühnemann
Kühnemann’s artistic starting point is his love of painting, which drives him to experiment creatively with the portrayal of objects and so to extend the limits of his own personal form of expression. The appearance of an object, a certain music, the texture of a fabric inspire the creative process for him. The artist connects […]
Lea Porsager
Porsager develops her works from occult theories and spiritual practices, which she applies to question normative ways of thinking and the limits of human knowledge. Transformative rituals and meditative techniques play a part in her works, and her artistic position is expressed via a kind of cult symbolism, with no desire to explain truths or […]
Window Display
On first sight, the video work Rooms resembles the visual experience of early computer graphics, however it is part of the eternal return of digital technologies. With every wave of technological simplification, from supercomputers to smart phones, it reaches a broader audience, turning formerly incomprehensible usage metaphors into something self-evident. Ludy has a masterful understanding […]
Mikko Rikala
In Ten Weeks by the Sea, Mikko Rikala invites us to accompany him on the personal voyage of discovery he undertook in Finland during summer 2014. For the exhibition at Künstlerhaus Bethanien he has developed a series of works examining the fixation of the past, as well as enabling us to experience the complex relations […]
Tanja Koljonen
Tanja Koljonen’s artistic position is articulated from within a play of image and text fragments, which she contrasts in order to open up new, associative spheres of meaning. Her working method is predominantly one of collage, montage and assemblage, which – as special cutting techniques – can convey different levels and styles of image/language simultaneously. […]