Sergio Belinchón
Sergio Belinchón considers architecture and urbanity from anthropological standpoints. Examining people’s housing, he analyses lifestyles rather than architectonic styles, seeing a collective reflection of people’s way of life in urban buildings. Video material – originally documentary – is thereby converted until it demonstrates very specific aspects of human life in urban surroundings, while in his […]
Gure Artea
Gure Artea is the joint exhibition by the three prize-winners in the most important Basque competition for young contemporary art, won last year by José Ramón Amondarain, Jon Mikel Euba and Pepo Salazar. The competition is organised by the Basque government’s Ministry of Culture and was first shown in the Artium, the Basque Museum for […]
Videofestival
It will also be possible to see current video works from Mexico on the opening evening and from 5th to 12th May during the opening times of exhibitions at the Künstlerhaus. The motto is “come closer”, and the curator Paola Santoscoy invites visitors to take a closer look at current video production by young Mexican […]
Iris van Dongen
From 24th February onwards, visitors to Studio 3 of the Künstlerhaus will find themselves captivated by a sombre kind of Romanticism. Iris van Dongen’s large-format drawings jumble iconographies and symbols, and desires and moral judgements, until finally all opposites and criteria are abolished, compelling the viewer to seek his own standpoint. Death’s head symbols appear […]
Lisa Strömbeck
In Scandinavian cinema there has been a long tradition of paying attention to little things and to the everyday world; personal concerns, wishes and longings are clarified against this background. In her artistic work, Lisa Strömbeck often adopts such practice, playing with well-known everyday phenomena in her video and performance works. With a sly wink […]
Falkenrot Prize 2005
This year Künstlerhaus Bethanien is presenting SEO as the first prize-winner of the newly created Falkenrot-Prize. In future, this prize for painting – initiated by the Dutch collectors Arie and Astrid de Knecht – is to be awarded to artists from home and abroad whose work promises to shape future developments in contemporary art. The […]
Gert Robijns
Gert Robijns’ works confront the audience with a form of “super-reality”, a parallel universe in competition with our own reality. This parallel world seems to appear after a kind of minimal “shift”, and Robijns induces the deviation from the norm by placing particular emphasis on images, sounds or objects as individual units. Reality is not […]
Lisi Raskin
Viewers of Lisi Raskin’s new installation “Parallel Telegram” are half reminded of the paranoid atomic bunker architecture of the Cold War, half of the monstrous rocket silos of that epoch. It is only possible to enter Studio 4 of the Künstlerhaus through a tunnel; it captures the visitor in a dizzying world of artificial light […]
ostPunk! – too much future
For ten years, from 1979 to 1989, the Punk uproar endured in the GDR. Whilst the social deprivation suffered by British teenagers found expression in the slogan “No Future”, the socialist misery of the strictly regulated lives of young people in the GDR could be said to originate with rather too much of a future. The […]
Ahmed Motiee
Painter Ahmed Motiee, born in Iran and now living in Bremen, unfurls a kaleidoscope of stories for the viewer, who reads in the paintings as if in an opened book. Motiee’s special processing technique not only lends them haptic plasticity. It also reconciles both tradition and the present day, and political analysis and calligraphic beauty.