Ulu Braun
For years, Ulu Braun has been developing contemporary landscape imagery in the form of exuberant video collages, which the artist himself refers to as ‘video paintings’. Paintings from different eras, 2D and 3D animations, videos, GIF loops and clip art come together. As diverse as the original contexts are, the perspectives and boundaries of the […]
From the Archive
Künstlerhaus Bethanien has a large archive of various time-based media such as video, film, sound recordings, as well as television and radio programmes. In the programme ‘Aus dem Archiv / From the Archive’ on the occasion of the 50th anniversary, parts of it will be made accessible to the public for the first time. This […]
Nejat A.
Remnants are treasure coves. Bits of the past that might suggest how our future could unfold, influencing the importance we place on them. In painting remainders of coffee cups, Nejat A. highlights how his practice of telling fortune means both luck and wealth. Unlike other popular forms of forecasting that require an ornate deck of […]
Del LaGrace Volcano
Since the invention of the medium in 1839, photography has not only depicted people; it has also significantly influenced their position in society and politics due to the way that photography visually categorizes people based on their physical characteristics, behavior, and clothing. By marking constructed gender roles, it also became a medium of stigmatization and […]
Alfa Birute & Bunny Vellocet
Horror movies have always been a sanctuary for the deviants. The monsters that would scare the normative bourgeois society away and force the spectators to flinch, squeak and avert their gaze, were a source of inspiration for the outcasts. The extreme body transformations, the dark humour and the overexaggerated surreal and often very violent situations, […]
Cem A.
Cem A. is an artist with a background in anthropology. He is known for running the art meme page @freeze_magazine and for his site-specific installations. His work explores topics such as survival and alienation in the art world, often through a hyper-reflexive lens and collaborative projects. Cem A.’s selected solo exhibitions and installations include Louisiana […]
Ingo Gerken
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Ingo Gerken draws a personal essence from the shelves of the library housed here and combines a selection of publications that have become historical with objects currently found on site. The free forces on the scale of reference and value start to shift through […]
Coco Bergholm
GLITCHES documents performative interventions by the artist Coco Bergholm. Over a period of several months, she produced printed curtains from photographed façade sections of the Berlin districts of Kreuzberg and Neukölln in order to place them exactly over the original motif. This change of materiality shakes up the often fragmented cityscape of shop windows, doors, […]
Nicolae Comănescu
In his new work, the artist Nicolae Comănescu, currently residing at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, presents textile works that are part of a concept called The Great General Scheme of all Things. With this concept, Comănescu had already attracted attention in 2020. At the Invitro Gallery in Cluj (Romania) he showed one of his first major works, […]
Sin Seeni
“You are not to be taught that you have many enemies that know not why they are so but, like village curs, bark when their fellows do.” William Shakespeare -Henry VIII, Act II, Scene 4 ‘Adjusting the Power’. That is the most basic essence of politics. The act of balancing power between two realms, the […]