ZUSPIEL
In a further edition of its ZUSPIEL series, Künstlerhaus Bethanien is presenting works by Judith Schwinn: “planet earth rebirth” is a song by the artists’ band Madame Scandaleuse comprising Judith Schwinn and Kerstin Wagener, which – as a title – fits Judith Schwinn’s work just as well. “Works on paper by Judith Schwinn reveal an […]
And now
The guest exhibition “and now” traces the work of a selected group of female artists from the GDR – among which some have been discussed only sparsely in the overall German art historical field. The exhibition shows work from the 1980s made under “socialistic conditions of production” and as well as artistic developments and positions in […]
André Sousa
André Sousa’s spatial installations incorporate a huge range of objects: minimal sculptures, detached advertising posters, empty beer bottles, photographs of car stickers or graffiti slogans, and drawings in the style of “stick men”. In his installations, the unspectacular objects – which Sousa finds in the cultural environment of each place where he is living – […]
Patrick Tuttofuoco
Patrick Tuttofuoco is interested in dialogue between people of widely differing origins and in urban life with its diverse structures and communities. His works, for which he employs a wide range of media, are intended to visualise his personal interpretation of the world as a “social, architectonic, relational, formal and cultural condensate”. As a result, […]
Ives Maes
In his photographic works, Ives Maes creates controversial portraits of specific historical epochs by combining characters and elements from well-known science fiction films with the venues and architectural remains of past world exhibitions. In the process, he contrasts the faith in technical progress and the optimistic projections of the future propagated by those exhibitions with […]
Yoba Valombola
Yoba Valombola’s art focuses on the society that he comes from. Elements of his work include images, symbols and signs that he takes from a wide range of contexts: personal experience, memories and imagination as well as poetry and music or everyday occurrences. In African art, it is common practice to work with symbols, signs, […]
The Garden As A Mirror
The video projection “The Garden as A Mirror” is shown as a loop and collects works by ten artists living between Portugal and Germany (selection: Rui Mourão), who take up the topic of the “garden” in very different ways, shedding a multifaceted light on the complex web of relations between man and nature. Works by […]
All my lovin´
“All my lovin’” will present, on the occasion of Künstlerhaus Bethanien’s relaunch, works by Elinor Carucci (IL/USA), Edith Maybin (CDN/GB), Phillip Toledano (GB) and Lydia Panas (USA) which have been selected out of the 20 international artistic positions in the field of photography and video which the project brings together. They all investigate love, loving and being loved; this […]
The Touch of History
Although all the artists of this exhibition are concerned with the specific pasts of their own political and art history, the exhibition “The Touch of History” addresses the need to deconstruct the past and critically investigates today’s ideological certainties regarding the past. The choice of exhibits is oriented on the continuing question of what the […]
Zuspiel
Wood and found pieces of furniture, often anchored in a site-specific space, line Karsten Konrad’s artistic career. Hyperactive, deconstructive, and yet utterly relaxed in his own envisioned cosmos, he is one of the leading individuals of a scene that never gives up working on the reformulation of the urban world. Some of his objects and […]