Benoît Goupy
In museums and exhibition spaces, entire professions work on the untouchable, inalterable qualities of art. But in his work, Benoît Goupy turns this defence of the status quo on its head. The material and media he employs are the generally undesired effects of human presence on the climatic conditions or of the background architecture on […]
Urban Realities
Istanbul is the only city in the world that straddles two continents, thus connecting Orient and Occident. The cultural interrelations between these two regions of the world, as manifested in the city Istanbul and in its interaction with European cities, are important aspects of the extensive exhibition. But the exhibition does not represent the aesthetic […]
Josée Dubeau
Essentially, Josée Dubeau views her work with sculptures, installations and drawings as a laboratory for investigation into human living conditions. With her installation in Studio 2 of the Künstlerhaus, the artist has created a space that one could describe as the topography of office architecture: desks, some shelves and filing cabinets appear to be waiting […]
Damien Deroubaix
When Damien Deroubaix investigates political and social themes, anarcho-punk penetrates the world of art. Using a wide range of materials and techniques, he assembles quite extensive installations. Everything with name and status in the economy, politics and society may appear in these, from icons of contemporary history to the world of global companies and the […]
Daniela Brahm
Although Daniela Brahm is indisputably a painter, her pictures often evolve into very three-dimensional architecture. For example, gallery exhibitions may be transformed into accessible urban areas when a number of paintings join together to create a course of flattened, fictive buildings. Following this, the viewer no longer knows whether painting is dallying with its own […]
Kristina Bræin
Kristina Bræin makes use of the formal language of minimalist abstraction for her site-specific interventions in the exhibition space. The starting point and most important element of her artistic practice is always a dialogue with the available space. She employs unspectacular, everyday objects and materials for her work, and the results as such cannot immediately […]
Norbert Bisky
Norbert Bisky’s first big individual exhibition in Germany will be presented in Studio 1 of the Künstlerhaus, showing work by an internationally acclaimed artist whose recent paintings have included a disturbing element. They depict well-proportioned, sporting, always radiant, blond and blue-eyed boys or young men, romping in cheerful groups, playing sport and games in settings […]
Charif Benhelima
Charif Benhelima’s artistic discipline is photography, and his strategy is to plumb its limitations. His artistic practice is inspired by his own biography and family background: in his photographic work he focuses on what it means to be ‘a foreigner’, and investigates in notions of ‘home’ in a world of ongoing globalization and at the […]
Leonor Antunes
Leonor Antunes’ work resembles a stock-taking of the places where she lives and works. She makes precisely observed motifs and details into the basis for fragments – reproduced to-scale -, which she then separates from their function and context in order to develop them into her autonomous, filigree sculptures. In Berlin, Antunes has been particularly […]
In Furs.
From time to time it becomes necessary to reconsider the institutional and micropolitical aspects of an institute’s work or to re-assess them ‒ in new rooms, for example. In what now amounts to 40 years of exhibition practice, Künstlerhaus Bethanien has supported artists from its programme as they show works outside the Künstlerhaus’ own exhibition space […]