Sophia Bulgakova
Text by Maria Vtorushina Sophia Bulgakova grew up in Odesa, a Ukrainian metropolis, port, and cultural centre on the shore of the Black Sea. Today, Odesa is constantly being targeted by Russian missile attacks: the port stocks with grain are the primary target. But also the city centre of Odesa, which is under UNESCO cultural […]
Beth von Undall
“The dream of those who dream concerns those who are not dreaming. Because as soon as someone else dreams, there is danger. People’s dreams are always devouring and threaten to engulf us; the other’s dream is very dangerous. Dreams have a terrible will to power and each one of us is a victim to the […]
Una Björg Magnúsdóttir
Una Björg Magnúsdóttir’s (b. 1990, lives and works in Reykjavik) interdisciplinary practice encompasses installations, sculptures, drawings, and time-based media. The artist often plays with the familiar and the banal. Everyday objects and associated patterns of behaviour and mechanisms of perception are torn out of their familiar cosmos by the artist and implanted in a completely […]
Chia-Yi Chen
The installations by Taiwanese artist Chia-Yi Chen (born 1992 in Taipei, Taiwan, lives and works there) appear like miniatures of urban landscapes. This impression becomes all the clearer when one realizes that the materials the artist uses are actually by-products of urban life: Styrofoam packaging, waste paper, painter’s fleece. Only a few objects are recognizable […]
Peter Rosemann
Image, mirror, fiction, illusion – representations of reality are often not what they seem. Whether in timeless black-and-white or lively colours, whether documentary or experimen-tal, whether representing or interpreting, whether constructed or staged: photographic portraits are never merely objective but potentially reveal a person’s inner life. In other words, they possess not only an external […]
Claudia Hart
USA 2004-2005, 60 min Claudia Hart’s series “Timegarden” reflects on the embedding of technology in modern life and man’s attempt to dominate nature instead of adapting to it. By exploring the aesthetic possibilities of digital time dilation, growth algorithms and fractal geometry, the work visualises the purely subjective nature of time. In “Timegarden 02”, the […]
Zen Teh
Zen Teh is a Singaporean artist and educator interested in the interdisciplinary study of nature and human behaviour. Her art practice spans the fields of photography, sculpture, and installation art. Over the course of her career, Teh has initiated numerous collaborative projects with artists, art professionals, and scientists. During her time as an artist-in-residence in […]
Douglas Kolk
Douglas Kolk (1963, Newark—2014, Boston) was a USA-born and based artist whose life and practice were closely intertwined with Berlin’s artistic milieu of the 1990s. Kolk’s work revolved around questions of identity, initially through small-format drawings and later through large-format collages combined with painting. The exhibition at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, featuring Douglas Kolk’s works from the […]
KB LOUNGE
Make yourself comfortable in our foyer! Here you can browse through our publications, watch video interviews with former Künstlerhaus Bethanien fellows and work on your laptop. Coffee and cake are available at Café Loro next door, and you can also take some to go in the lounge! Of course, there will also be some art. […]
Neozoon
NEOZOON SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE 3:36 min D 2016 The experimental found-footage collage SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE is based on digital greeting cards from big-game hunters. These animated GIF files, which are exchanged between the hunters, reproduce the minimal movement of shaking hands in a ghostly loop in which the hunted prey coagulates into a staffage against […]