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 […]
Lynne Marsh
Does the distinction between entertainment and art, mass culture and developed aesthetics still exist? While the fine lines between art and the rest of the world become increasingly permeable with every new biennial, Lynne Marsh analyses the mutual borrowings between art and popular culture. Thus in her new work “Stadium – first cut”, the Berlin […]
Mladen Bizumic
At Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Mladen Bizumic is showing two acts of a “Spatial Opera”, which relates facets of contemporary geopolitics to architectural phenomena. The production presents contributions by other artists, musicians, theorists, and – in one case – his mother. In Berlin, Bizumic also follows his principle of referring to the urban environment and the history […]
OPEN STUDIOS
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: Sofia Bäcklund (S), Hans Kristian Borchgrevink Hansen (N), AA Bronson (CDN)*, Martha Colburn (NL), Masashi Echigo / Osamu Inami (J), Priscila Fernandes (P), Søren Thilo Funder (DK), Emma Howes (CDN-QB), Vera Kox (L), Tanja Koljonen (FIN), Olaf Kühnemann (D/IL), Hye Kyoung Kwon (ROK)**, Karen Mahaffy (USA), Stary Mwaba (Z), Jorge Pineda (DOM), Prajakta […]
The Mechanical Corps. On the Trail of Jules Verne
At the beginning of the 21st century with its extreme acceleration and increasing concentration of information and global communication, aesthetic recourse to the world of the late 19th century is emerging in fine art, fashion and design, and films and comics. At the same time, the technical world is being miniaturised as nanoscience, and autonomous […]
Alan Warburton *1980, lives and works in London (England) Today the image in photography and video is synthetic – the real and algorithmic worlds of non-uniform moments collide and intersect. In Alan Warburton’s film Spherical Harmonics these superimpositions are compartmentalized and isolated into self-contained protagonists. So the human figure, based on a digital readymade, is […]
Sofie Bird Møller
Sofie Bird Møller debunks found, historical engravings of their figural depiction and conveys the classic works’ claim of eternity into an indefinite temporality. As a first step Møller takes away the visible by purposely overpainting it, subsequently closing the created image-gaps with a similar poignant accurate technical mastery of the original image. Although the human figure […]
Søren Thilo Funder
In his audiovisual productions Søren Thilo Funder brings elements of critical theory, literature, pop culture and cinema as well as aspects of counter-cultural disciplines together. His works are caught in between reenactment, performance and cinematic fiction. The current two-channel video work is based on Funders cinematic adaption of a scene derived from Jean-Paul Sartres novel “La mort […]
Tibor Horváth
Significant for Tibor Horváths artistic practice are the radical taboo breakings that often let his works come across as provocative criticism towards institutions and society. Alongside graphic, photography, video and installation his works frequently include actions that the artist implements in various forms. Horváth, who was a participant of the international studio program with a fellowship […]