In Memory of Peter Lang
Yesterday, on August 11th at about 9 pm, the Berlin curator, art critic, author and editor PETER LANG died unexpectedly in Munich of a heart attack. He was 56 years old. Peter Lang was repeatedly a guest curator in our institution in the past few years. Only recently the exhibition The Mechanical Corps. On the […]
Window Display
Brenna Murphy, *1986, lives and works in Portland, Oregon (USA) Im Schaufenster presents Murphy’s video work Siat nousevat vuorelle from 2011 (USA/Finland, 5:02min). The American artist Brenna Murphy (http://bmruernpnhay.com) explores the diverse representational forms of digital surfaces. Frequent initial element is self-shot video footage that is rhythmized by Photoshop filters and amplified to lucid kaleidoscopes. In the […]
Vera Kox
It is generally the static to the monumental that is understood as sculpture, but the sculptural works by Vera Kox concentrate far more on the fleeting and the transformable, on the transitory nature of her starting material. It sticks, spills over, crumples, folds, bulges and plays with the cognitive patterns of our perception like a […]
Jenny Lindblom
Primarily taking the form of paintings and sculptures, Jenny Lindbloms practice is an inquiry into the possibilities as well as the limitations of representation, expression and identity. Equally influenced by the aestheticized realities framed/ filtered by the canons of Instagram and art history, her imagery can be described as a constellation of eclectic reactions to […]
Alexei Kostroma
At the beginning of the 1990s, Alexei Kostroma proclaimed a new trend in modern art – the so-called “organic way”, which began in the 20th century Russian avantgarde. Precisely this “organic way”, which investigates the developmental laws of living nature, enabled Kostroma to argue his own perspective regarding the relations between theory and artistic practice […]
Hans Kristian Borchgrevink Hansen
Hans Kristian Borchgrevink Hansen is concerned with the artistic mapping of specific geographical areas; for this purpose, he uses found materials and film documentation of small discoveries he makes in the streets, in parks or at flea markets, etc. The everyday objects (hair ties, paper clips, pieces of plastic) or fragments of them, which the […]
Sofia Bäcklund
Sofia Bäcklund creates series or groups of sculptures, which both represent and abstract objects from our everyday environment. Her works focus on aspects of the interplay between individuals and society, and on the role that material plays in these processes. One recurrent theme in Bäcklund’s work is the necessity for limits and boundaries to exist […]
Rohkunstbau
During recent years, Rohkunstbau has developed into a true audience magnet. These exhibitions of contemporary, international site-specific art at The heart of the Spreewald have captivated innumerable visitors. This year, Rohkunstbau is to be the guest of Künstlerhaus Bethanien for the first time. The exhibition “Dorf in die Metropole” (A Village Comes to the Metropolis) shows work […]
berlin · istanbul · vice versa
berlin · istanbul · vice versa is an exhibition that enquires after the cultural transitions and uncertainties of a society made up of world citizens. It is true that art cannot deliver prefabricated answers or compact recipes for political and economic change. But artists react sensitively to social reform and reflect on its risks and […]
Niebo nad Berlinem
Jan Zakrzewski has made it his aim to investigate the full complexity of the relations – still characterised by a range of emotions – between Poland and Germany. The great distance that he has developed from his home country – he has lived in the USA for twenty years – permits him to take a […]