Lillian Schwartz
After 10 years, the screening series “Phantom Horizons” comes to an end. More than 60 innovative artists from all over the world have been presented in the Window Display of Künstlerhaus Bethanien. To celebrate this diversity and potentials, I am pleased to present a double feature bridging the past and future of experimental moving image. […]
tout geste est renversement
The exhibition “tout geste est renversement” by Laurianne Bixhain (lives and works in Luxembourg) invites visitors into a multi- layered assemblage: a series of photographs that seem to float in sterile aluminum frames, text fragments in clusters on the walls and vibrating metal plate from which overlapping voices rise. These elements gradually combine to form […]
Perceive Shadows in Mother Tongue
When lit by a single source of light, the shadows of multiple objects projected on a surface will be of the same intensity, drawing the outlines of a chimeric pattern. Sera Yu Wen Chen aggregates shadows. Her works are composed of elements conscientiously stitched together: archives, testimonies, anecdotes, suIused with both humor and quiet urgency. […]
I am Your Window
Panya Clark Espinal (born in Toronto, lives and works in Toronto) moves effortlessly between different artistic media such as sculpture, installation, performance, printmaking and textile work in her practice. As an artist, researcher and storyteller, she uses various motifs and objects from the archives of her own family history, which she restages and transfers into […]
My Chocolate Collection
Cyberspace has the power to collapse. Depth of meanings simplifies into a single layer; flux of ideas recess to one-dimensional thoughts; the push and pulls of human romance degrade into a simple swipe of a finger. When options shrink and dimensionalities collapse, sheer representation becomes all-encompassing. Regardless of its stained reputation in art history, representation […]
LABA Berlin
LABA Berlin has partnered with the Deutsche Islam Akademie (DIA) for its groundbreaking Muslim-Jewish art residency program: Mar’a’yeh. Marayeh (مرايه) the Levantine Arabic word for mirror harbors within it the Hebrew word with the same meaning: Mar’a (מַראָה). This residency invites artists of Jewish and Muslim heritage to participate in a year of exchange, conversation, […]
Chia Amisola
Chia Amisola’s multi-layered work begins with extensive research and culminates in websites that serve as both medium and subject of exploration. By navigating through these sites in performances, the artist weaves a web of interconnected experiences, in this case the story of two boys and their experiences with sound. This practice delves into the hidden […]
Jungwoo Lee
“Loops of Algorithmic Karma” began during Jungwoo Lee’s residency at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, with an initial goal to document the planned removal of the Statue of Peace in Berlin. This monument, which commemorates women forced into sexual slavery during Japan’s colonial rule of Korea (1910–1945), represents a critical symbol of women’s and minority rights. Despite its […]
Duy Nguyen
“When reading about Vietnamese migration history, I learned that Germany has the second largest Vietnamese diaspora population in Europe. Because of Berlin’s past history of being divided, with guest workers migrating to GDR, and boat refugees to West Germany – I imagined the Vietnamese diaspora would be mixed, and with interesting interaction and stories. This […]
Takashi Arai
Images that deal with life and death – and the liminal situations in between – touch on our greatest fears in the face of the finite nature of existence and our own transience. Photography, with its almost 200-year history, is not the first medium to be used to capture, ward off or endure death. But […]