Johan Zetterquist
How do you describe an artist who defines his work as being somewhere “between impossible to describe and conceptual”, who rejects the category of the unnatural, and maintains that evolution cannot be held in check? The individualist Johann Zetterquist is definitely not an aesthetic privateer. The sketches he is showing at the Künstlerhaus are “proposals […]
Attila Szücs
Attila Szücs’ painting always has something dreamlike about it. The objects and scenes depicted may appear vaguely familiar to the viewer, he may feel he has already experienced the unspectacular scenes – but they open a speculative sphere to the imagination: Szücs’ pictures evoke the history of painting in order to place it – with […]
Relax
Parking avenir is the most recent installation by the artist group RELAX (chiarenza & hauser & co). RELAX are experts on the identity of institutions. Their most recent installation describes the history of Künstlerhaus Bethanien itself and also examines the square, Mariannenplatz, located in front of the building. Our attention is directed towards the secret change […]
Louise Paramor
Louise Paramor’s exhibition “Off-cuts” is a project using remains of material from her previous exhibition “forever yours”, transposing these into a new, abstract, self-contained creative process. Scraps of paper left over in the production of earlier collages are transformed into “speed collages” or “blind collages” – as the artist herself characterises these works. The outcome […]
Network Baltic
Founded in 2002, Network Baltic is an international network of artists and art institutions from the Baltic region concentrating on the genre of graphic art. Network Baltic combines real and virtual exhibitions, and since 2002 it has been organising a regular programme of workshops, seminars, publications and exhibitions which will be continued until 2005. In […]
The Mondopunkt
The Mondopunkt is a Swiss system of collecting bonus points when shopping for groceries that has presented a projection surface for happy family life and modest prosperity in Switzerland for decades. Collected points may be exchanged for picture books illustrated with views of the big wide world. The Künstlerhaus is showing ten artistic positions from […]
Karl Hans Janke
“Manic inventing”? Karl Hans Janke’s life was a struggle against the consequences of this medical diagnosis. More than 2500 drawings document his inventions of atomic propulsion models, domestic lamps that collect steric energy, and spaceships that fly without the need for energy at all. Janke did not want to be an artist, and he plagued […]
Irwin: Retroprincip
In connection with the Berlin Festival and the Kunstherbst in Berlin, the Berlin cultural scene is focusing on eastern Europe this year. With its large retrospective exhibition of the painters’ collective Irwin, Künstlerhaus Bethanien is showing one of the most interesting standpoints of Slovenian art, and at the same time one that has been least […]
Salla Tykkä
The DZ Bank AG has been promoting the work of young artists in the field of contemporary artistic photography since 1993. Prizes are presented in the disciplines “artistic photography” and “accelerated photography/video art” and each is endowed with 12,000 Euros. The awards for 2002/2003 went to Elias Hassos and Salla Tykkä. Tykkä received the award […]
Elias Hassos
The DZ Bank AG has been promoting the work of young artists in the field of contemporary artistic photography since 1993. Prizes are presented in the disciplines “artistic photography” and “accelerated photography/video art” and each is endowed with 12,000 Euros. The awards for 2002/2003 went to Elias Hassos and Salla Tykkä. Elias Hassos records fragments […]