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 […]
Evanthia Tsantila
In Studio 2 of the Künstlerhaus, Evanthia Tsantila is projecting her highly subjective adaptation of a classic of film history. She has transposed Ingmar Bergman’s “The Silence“ (1962) into her own video version – composed as a series of excerpts – and into a group of large-format drawings that lend a new autonomy to the […]
Operation Swanlake
Operation Swanlake is the documentation of a research project by the London Institute of Militronics and Advanced Time Interventionality (IMATI) and a colleague involved in this, Rosalind Brodsky, which Suzanne Treister is now presenting to the Berlin public. IMATI is a government institute which develops technologies for time travel and tests their use for military […]
Beyond the Limits
The exhibition Jenseits der Grenzen (Beyond the Limits) collects together three photo projects by Mitra Tabrizian from the years 1998 to 2001: Minimal Utopia, Silent Majority and the eight-part photo series Beyond the Limits. The large-format photographs depict apparently android people in an autistic world. Unscrupulous, highly-developed technologies make it seem that everything is for sale and […]
Monika Sosnowska
Monika Sosnowska works with large-format installations, sometimes filling an entire room, or with mural paintings employing the techniques of trompe l’oeil. The resulting architectonic constructions can be walked into and around, and they form their own, self-contained worlds, simultaneously irritating and enchanting the viewer by means of their peculiar proportions and labyrinthine passages. In the […]
Marike Schuurman
Marike Schuurman works with photos, films and videos which depict reality without aiming to be mere documentation. The artist attempts to track down the small, hidden irritations concealed behind the appearance of reality; those that question our familiar view of things. Her large-format photo works challenge the public to investigate subliminal picture content and to […]
Erasmus Schröter
In his Berlin exhibition, the Leipzig photo artist Erasmus Schröter – who made his name with eccentric light scenarios that integrated bunkers along the Atlantic coast – is showing relics from the former GDR as well as his own works. Besides a collection of coloured, abstract glass trays, these include numerous postcards made from real […]