Kimberly Clark
Kimberly Clark is a collective of Dutch artists whose videos, sculptures and installations often reveal a disturbing image of unbridled night-time pleasures that even cross the limits to excess. In static images or snapshots, the changing psychological states of modern man – ranging from euphoria to ennui and isolation to hysteria – are documented in […]
Thomas Lerooy
Thomas Lerooy’s drawings and sculptures involve a creative game with citations and reminiscences from art history. The biting irony that is occasionally noticeable in Lerooy’s technically extremely accurately realised drawings and his sculptures arises from a clever use of highly symbolic objects such as skulls, playing card motifs or skeletons, which he combines into scenarios […]
Freek Wambacq
Freek Wambacq’s work investigates the complex relations between sculpture, installation and architecture. Including found materials and objects, it can be seen in the context of Minimal Art and Arte Povera, whose intellectual pretence it undermines with distinctively subtle humour. Wambacq’s installations, which contain numerous references to the history of modern art, question the conditions of […]
Pernille Koldbech Fich
Pernille Koldbech Fich’s creative medium is photography. To date, she has produced mainly portraits, which exude a tremendous psychological and poetic power. The fascination radiating from Koldbech Fich’s photographs lies in the magnetism of her characters surrounded by an impression of loneliness, and in the role into which the viewer is drawn as he puzzles […]
Kajsa Dahlberg
Kajsa Dahlberg works with images, text and sound. She investigates the construction and mediation of narrative structures in the context of political representation, historical discourse and individual identity. While doing so, she enquires about interrelations between collective and individual forms of narration. In Künstlerhaus Bethanien Dahlberg is showing her book project “Ein Zimmer für sich. […]
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 […]