Lucas Lenglet
Lucas Lenglet’s spatial scenarios often remind us of operative base camps, protective set-ups for use in case of catastrophe, or temporary military hides – or they display the materials and objects characteristic of such places. With “tools for rescue/tools for hiding”, Lucas Lenglet has now realised an installation filling an entire room of the Künstlerhaus; […]
Jannicke Låker
In legend, the director has always adopted the role of the all-powerful potentate. The greater his genius, the less inhibited his autocratic regime over the actors on the set. Perhaps it is repressed envy that leads the average citizen to conceive film direction as a licence to sadism. Jannicke Låker does not harbour such prejudice, […]
Shin il Kim
If you have chosen – perhaps due to theoretical suspicions – not to imagine the fourth dimension before now, Shin il Kim still offers some insights into a more reserved, but equally challenging interim sphere. The artist, who was born in South Korea and lives in New York, actually works on the 2 1/2th dimension, […]
Thomas Kapielski
Counting up the great number of disciplines and genres in which Thomas Kapielski has worked since the seventies, he might be regarded as one of the last Berlin “universalists”. For a long time, he was known to insiders as a fine artist, qualified geographer and philologist, lecturer, musician and author; the initiated recommended his work […]
Yoshiaki Kaihatsu
For Yoshiaki Kaihatsu, art is not an object, but interaction. It permits itself to be used, demands dialogue, can transform itself into services and makes offers to the audience. Kaihatsu’s recipient is a user and not just an observer. This also applies to his project at Künstlerhaus Bethanien. Here, Kaihatsu will appear as operator and […]
Maarten Janssen
In a museum, paintings are hung like sacred objects. Only art historians and others who are initiated are able to determine the history of their development from “secret” information. From the outset, Maarten Janssen revokes this aura of the complete. It is his aim to make processes of development and traces of construction visible in […]
Claire Healy
The character of Claire Healy’s and Sean Cordeiro’s installations is irritatingly methodical. Their meticulous deconstructions mean that they almost resemble art-economical experiments in a laboratory, so contravening the dogma that fine art cannot be arbitrarily reproduced. For example, Healy and Cordeiro had already devised the original pattern for their joint project in 2003, when they […]
Erla Haraldsdóttir
One might say that in Erla Haraldsdóttir’s work our everyday life becomes crazy. Using digital processing, collages and other means of media alienation, she makes the familiar appear so disconcerting that visitors begin to doubt the reliability of their own perception. Attributes and images of completely opposing worlds merge with such seamlessness that the illusion […]
János Fodor
János Fodor is a realist – of the brief, self-contained moment. Generally, his films are sequences composed of numerous snapshots pinpointing the unusual in moments of everyday urban life. Fodor develops short clips conveying single ideas, without dwelling for long on formal questions or sentimental observations. Using a combination of irony and sympathy, the artist […]
Michel de Broin
If you devoted yourself to art because science was never one of your strong points, you are now being given a second chance to develop a deeper, heartfelt relationship to physics. Michel de Broin’s exhibition at Künstlerhaus Bethanien is an entertaining, educational presentation about the second main thesis of thermodynamics and how the insights of […]