Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi
Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi’s works show the two artists themselves, usually attempting to master apparently impossible and seemingly absurd ‘tasks’, whereby this process of realisation is always recorded on video. The seriousness and tenacity of Yamashita + Kobayashi’s approach to their time-consuming, self-imposed tasks lends a characteristic comedy to their works, pointing with a […]
Martina Hoogland Ivanow
Martina Hoogland Ivanow’s photographs convey a presence to the viewer which is both real and poetic. Their aesthetics are threatening and hypnotic to equal extents. These are short stories related on the basis of single images. The current exhibition in Künstlerhaus Bethanien is entitled Satellite and comprises a series of photographs of various “alternative” communities. […]
Ane Mette Hol
Ane Mette Hol’s creative work is concerned with the relations between the original, the photograph and the drawn reproduction. The artist makes use of objects already reproduced or mass-produced, such as photocopies, book covers or painter’s masking paper and then copies or rather “re-produces” these as drawings. She painstakingly reproduces all the traces of use […]
Awst & Walther
In their installations and performances, Awst & Walther reflect on the spectrum of relations between body, image and space. The artists prefer to work with materials that are based on organic ingredients like gelatine, and with industrially manufactured construction materials such as glass, metal or plaster. In Künstlerhaus Bethanien the visitor is greeted by Awst […]
Proto Anime Cut
The exhibition “Proto Anime Cut” presents original drawings of the most important directors and illustrators of Japanese animated films.The action-packed hero stories and the visionary science fiction of Japanese Anime are set in impressive worlds that are constructed in painstaiking detail. Looking at the creative processes, the filmmakers appear as architectural dreamers who operate with […]
Aharon Ozery
In his works, Aharon Ozery is primarily interested in circular and recurrent processes. His installations, drawings and sculptures are concerned with mechanisms whose endlessly repetitive sequences of movement or cyclic structures create spaces free of purpose beyond our material reality. In most cases, this reveals a discrepancy in Ozery’s installations between their industrially shaped appearance […]
Matthias Baader Holst
“Matthias” BAADER Holst (1962 – 1990) was one of the GDR’s most interesting underground poets. He worked as a poet, draftsman, filmmaker, publisher and performer. Ultimately, and in retrospect, he was probably the GDR’s only true Punk-Dadaist. His influence on writers, musicians and artists from the former GDR has been a lasting one to date. […]
Peggy Franck
Peggy Franck’s expressive installations appear to be an accumulation of many remnants from their own process of creation. The studio is not only a working place for the artist but also a place absorbing her identity and inner being, which she then makes visible to the public. “Drawing from a store of thought” collects together a […]
Sara Hughes
Sara Hughes’ work investigates the visual impact of specific structures, codes and numbers on the viewer. In face of a flood of media ‘explaining’ the world to us and simultaneously regulating it, she is particularly interested in visual structures that convey information and often adopt the form of statistical graphics in the media. In “Feedback […]
Cynthia Girard
Cynthia Girard’s painting consciously avoids notions such as professionalism and academically schooled virtuosity. Her pictures and installations are narratives about painting itself, in which she concerns herself with questions of representation and with overcoming the conflict between abstraction and figuration, between purely formal and narrative depictions. By appropriating elements of Minimal, Hard-Edge, Op-Art or Neo-Expressionism […]