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 […]
Arturas Raila
Lithuanian artist Arturas Raila has now been carrying out his project in progress entitled “The Power of the Earth” for two years, in collaboration with the geo-energy experts Vaclovas Mikailionis and Villius Gibavicius. The artist and the scientists come from rural areas of Lithuania, where they are leading representatives of a folklorist understanding of nature. […]
SIGNS & SURFACES
People attempt to subjugate their own bodies in many ways. Bodybuilders and tightrope artists are a testimony to this, and every big city marathon is a mass demonstration of collective self-discipline. But without doubt, the most radical way of making the body into its own object is to design the skin, decorating it with symbols […]
PAINTING AS PRESENCE
he exhibition PAINTING AS PRESENCE / This is not a love song is aimed at visitors who are curious and interested – parallel to the BERLIN BIENNIAL – in getting to know positions of painting with very different references and origins, the majority of which nonetheless emerged in Berlin. On the basis of selected examples, […]
Serkan Özkaya
Since we began advertising exhibitions like consumer goods, art has had to make an effort to look smart. Most recently, for example, the products MOMA and GOYA permeated the market to the same extent as OMO and ARIEL, so that one can almost refer to self-defence when an artist conceals his critical standpoints behind the […]