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 […]
Wim Catrysse
Wim Catrysse’s films and installations aim to make the viewer aware of the act of seeing and the experiences connected with it. His video films are investigations into the relation between the body and its surroundings: often the protagonists operate within an enclosed space that seems to determine their actions or their states of mind. […]
Filippa Arrias
Filippa Arrias is primarily concerned with painting, but also works in the field of photography and scenography. The exhibition “dazwischen” in Studio 4 shows selected paintings from a current project, which illuminates media images and their influence on our everyday lives while simultaneously questioning the illustrated ideals and realities of today’s globalised view of the […]
Roland Boden
Roland Boden is only projecting his video work “Dream of the Sleeper, vol.2.” in the intimate space of Studio 4 for two days. A number of night-time scenarios are presented in a series of entirely computer-generated sequences, although there is no direct action or plot. The video will be shown together with mural drawings and […]
Burnett-Rose / Pia Lindman
For two periods of time, the Künstlerhaus Bethanien GmbH is showing video works by the artist couple Heather and Patrick Burnett-Rose and by the artist and architect Pia Lindman. Heather and Patrick Burnett-Rose are interested in political and military conflicts, consumerism, violence, and our society’s mania for technology; Pia Lindman demonstrates the influence of a […]
Against the Grain
“Against the Grain” is a translation of the French title “À Rebours” of a novel by Joris-Karl Huysman. First published in 1884, this novel’s almost painfully detailed descriptions of the unthinkable obsessions of the overwrought, sensitive young nobleman Jean Floressas des Esseintes made it into a key novel of French symbolism and the decadence movement. […]
Adriana Molder
The faces in Adriana Molder’s portrait drawings exercise an almost magical pull on the viewer’s gaze. Molder executes her often larger-than-life ink drawings – most of them portraits or interiors – on gossamer-thin, transparent tracing paper. The depictions thus develop the translucent fragility and glow that characterise her work. Awakening an atmospheric echo of the […]