Gerson Bettencourt Ferreira
Gerson Bettencourt Ferreira combines the subjective perspective of portrait analysis with elements of social research. He himself refers to his method as “empathic”. But what emerges from this “empathy and understanding” is a representative aesthetic sample of life in Berlin sport clubs. The individual and group portraits are not only a reflection of the individual […]
Gardar Eide Einarsson
In his exhibition at the Künstlerhaus, Gardar Eide Einarsson attempts to develop political potential by defining the praxis of opposition as political, personal everyday life: the works range from minimalist-inspired skateboard obstacles to supposed expressions of anger and outrage in the form of fake graffiti.
Cor Dera
It is not unusual for artists to adapt found photographs from the natural world in their work. But it is something out of the ordinary when this develops into the pictorial biography of an ape. Cor Dera did not only do research at Berlin Zoo for his work produced at the Künstlerhaus. He was also […]
Heman Chong
Heman Chong’s new series of works The Silver Sessions represents a change in direction for the artist’s multidisciplinary oeuvre. A dialogue with the recipient is developed by means of seven individual objects; Heman Chong conveys the sense of being tied to a specific time, the transitory quality of the working situation that he experienced during […]
Rui Calçada Bastos
Rui Calçada Bastos exhausts all the possibilities of the video medium by allowing a complete world of images to develop on the screen using minimal equipment: “Bastos employs the video medium and its potential in the way that others might use a pencil. The minimal technical repertoire leads to a lively world of images that […]
Nevin Aladag
When Nevin Aladag demonstrates an interest in breakdance, she is not concerned with an exotic subculture, but with a non-verbal form of expression located between cultures – one which quite frequently displays its subtle theatrical qualities. The moment the dance is named after, the sudden break in the flow of movement, is referred to as […]
Antonio de la Rosa
It might seem that the sentence “I don’t love you” is presently enjoying a boom. More and more advertisements and websites are appearing, used by women from former eastern block states in their search for husbands in western Europe. This is not a matter of feelings, but of economics, and Antonio de la Rosa interprets […]
Jan Rothuizen
Jan Rothuizen doesn’t only work as a fine artist, but also as a writer. By means of found photographs, his own texts and specific, on-the-spot interventions, he separates images from their original contexts and develops their inherent variability and fragility.
Sven Marquardt
ZUSPIEL / Sven Marquardt In his concept Nachtblende (Night Aperture) Sven Marquardt shows portraits of women taken in East Berlin around 1990 and those of men taken for a project for HUGO BOSS / BOSS Orange in collaboration with Lasse Holger Mitterhusen in 2013. Three motifs from his series of men will also be available […]
Zsu Szabó
ZUSPIEL / Zsu Szabó’s photographic works are concerned with a wide range of thematic fields, but despite their diversity, are ultimately always about the hidden, mysterious aspects of life, love, and our dark, often unadmitted desires, lusts and fears. Under the title Nothing Personal Szabó is showing a selection of photographs from an extensive series […]