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 […]
DAAD
Willoughby Sharp and Pamela Seymour Smith are guests of the Berlin Artists’ Programme of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, whose studios are situated at Bethanien. Sharp and Smith are opening their joint exhibition “Together” in Studio 144, parallel to the exhibitions of the International Studio Programme. The duo has been collaborating artistically since the end of […]
Falkenrot Prize 2006
Maik Wolf’s subliminally disturbing painting is a seductive attack on media gullibility. Demonstrating great virtuosity, his pictures cite the repertoire of glossy photography. His backgrounds are the very same sunsets and night-time atmospheres with which modern reporting even guarantees the advantageous journalistic use of crisis zones. Wolf radicalises this aesthetic exploitation of the banal until […]
Kerry Tribe
Kerry Tribe’s films, videos and installations analyse the relations between subjectivity and representation, inspecting the grey zones between the authentic and the scripted, the collective and the specific. The exhibition Subjective Effects encompasses a trilogy of works dealing with perception, coincidence and the phenomenology of memory, shown alongside a series of photos related to the […]
Althea Thauberger
The once heated debate on conscientious objectors, seen by many a German as shirkers, is nearly forgotten now. Civil service is widely accepted nowadays, and the State even relies on conscientious objectors as cheap social workforce. But apart from this change of status, Althea Thauberger was interested in this German institution for a wide range […]
Luzia Simons
Nothing seems to be as peaceful as a still-life, and yet this genre is no less than a provocation. The glossily brilliant Dutch paintings – in which shop window displays, fruit and vegetables resemble a demonstration of the power of painting skills – actually convey deeper moral messages, bluntly reminding the suitably educated observer of […]
Sancho Silva
Sancho Silva is a strategist of spatial transformation. He blocks up windows or constructs corridors and rooms that completely alter the scale and topology of an exhibition space. In this way, he confuses the viewer’s perception in order to open up surprising new perspectives. Generally, however, it means that Silva creates a privileged position for […]