Falkenrot Prize 2013
The Falkenrot Prize was initiated in 2005 and it is being presented for the seventh time this year. It is conferred upon international artists who set new standards in contemporary art and painting, in particular through outstanding self-awareness. This year the Prize has been awarded to artist Maki Na Kamura, who lives in Berlin. Maki […]
Takahiro Suzuki
Takahiro Suzuki has been running his IKIRO project for ten years now: day after day, he writes the Japanese word “Ikiro”, a rough equivalent to “live!”, in various contexts ranging from museums to public space. Takahiro Suzuki has already travelled to numerous countries with this project, writing his “IKIRO” in places as diverse as temples […]
Nicolás Robbio
Nicolás Robbio uses simple things for his work. A table, a chair and a range of everyday objects become “objects of general knowledge” – transformed into metaphors of meaning. The general quality of the objects is not their objective, everyday nature, but the way that they bear universal meaning above and beyond the boundaries of […]
Carsten Fock
Whether Caspar David Friedrich, Heinrich Reinhold or Ludwig Richter – they all portrayed the Watzmann mountain, which may be regarded as a scene of longing for German Romanticism. Situated only a short distance as the crow flies from Obersalzberg, Adolf Hitler’s later holiday retreat, the area in the foothills of the German Alps has remained […]
Emmanuel Madan
Emmanuel Madan is a musician, composer and sound artist. Since 1998 he has worked mainly under the label [The User] together with architect Thomas McIntosh. The works shown in the Künstlerhaus deal with ‘errors’ in the standardised system of mediatised speech and forms of differentiation within sameness. They show, for instance, how differences appear in […]
Jumana Manna
Jumana Manna works primarily with film and sculpture. Her work often addresses the body, nationalism, history and the construction of community. For her show at the Künstlerhaus, Manna will show a series of sculptures, symbolically linked to the thematic and processes of her films from her most recent film projects. The works come together almost […]
Panayiotis Michael
In the last years, Panayiotis Michael’s work has been preoccupied with what may be described, indeed, ‘entitled’, a house. The Künstlerhaus exhibition is less gripped with the social happiness that a structure and its contents may signify, and more pleasurably associative in its flow of forms and metaphors, related, and not, to the artist’s family house, […]
Kevin Schmidt
Kevin Schmidt works with video, photography and installation. On occasion his actions are often located in remote settings, where he creates spectacular staged works by shifting elements of urban culture into untouched natural contexts. In this way, Schmidt simultaneously examines both the seductive elements of contemporary cultural production, and constructions of the idea of nature. […]
Window Display
With “Window Display” Künstlerhaus Bethanien presents a new exhibition cycle produced for the public space at Kottbusser Straße 10. On a monthly base passers-by will be able to view solo presentations by international artists on a screen inside our gallery window. “Ohne Titel” (2011) is a video work by artist Christian Niccoli. The video investigates the […]
Stuart A. Staples & Suzanne Osborne
Singing Skies evolved from cooperation between musician Stuart A. Staples – lead singer and guitarist of the band Tindersticks – and painter Suzanne Osborne. The exhibition in Künstlerhaus Bethanien is based on the two artists’ original idea to bring together, in a book, works from Osborne’s series of paintings A year in small paintings – […]