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 […]
Tom Sandberg
A viewer of Tom Sandberg’s large-format black-and-white photographs usually sees common motifs. Familiar archetypes of everyday perception depict almost typologically straightforwardly. Instead of the brimming wealth of tiny details of many contemporary photographs, the croppings seem to concentrate on their objects as if on symbols of broader contexts. Sandberg’s motifs are various: grandiose, snow-covered mountain […]
Lisa Jonasson
Lisa Jonasson’s graphics, posters, comics, and drawings could, at first glance, be taken for the products of a naïve approach to art, because, in great detail and opulently, they mirror the variety of the world in vast ink panoramas. But at second glance, they are not archaic, but artistic research projects treating human states of […]
Anita Di Bianco
The works of Anita Di Bianco make clear that narration is a precise artistic process still occupying a place as an artistic strategy; she draws her material for re-writing, re-staging or re-telling from literature in order to transform its already familiar content in the medium of film. In her exhibition “Versteller” (Masquerader) Anita Di Bianco […]
Kornél Szilágyi
Kornél Szilágyi, currently a guest at the Künstlerhaus, is more than just an experimental filmmaker, teacher and musician. The exhibition also offers space to the founder of a state. For in 2005, Szilágyi and his fellow student Tamás Blaha founded the state of “Autonomia”, an area of 30 square metres situated behind the Academy of […]
Dellbrügge & de Moll
Part of the Bethanien building is occupied by squatters. Both they and some politicians are using this exceptional situation ingeniously in order to exploit fine art for local political aims. In this context, the Berlin duo of artists Dellbrügge & de Moll have introduced fiction into the debate and taken a look around in search […]
Natascha Stellmach
The Australian fellowship-holder Natascha Stellmach is more than just a guest in Germany. As a child of German parents born in Australia, the clash of identities and highlighted memories are key components of the artist’s own personal biography. Her work in Künstlerhaus Bethanien, therefore, is also a documentation of the breaches and divisions in the […]