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 […]
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 […]