Zuspiel
In a further edition of its ZUSPIEL series, Künstlerhaus Bethanien is presenting works by Jessica Buhlmann and Franziska Goes. Jessica Buhlmann does not strive in her works to reproduce, but to reflect her environment. She uses various textures and overlapping areas of colour that may cover each other, as well as constructive elements in order […]
Zuspiel
The 16-part photo series “Neverbeenthere” (1997) investigates pictorial motifs from books on Africa like those appearing under titles like “The Call of the Caravan” (Hansjoachim von der Esch), “The Naked Nagas” (Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf) or “Into the Heart of Africa” (Adolf Friedrich Herzog zu Mecklenburg) in Germany until into the 1940s. The images have been […]
Stephan Kaluza
Since its fall in 1989, the Berlin Wall has been dismantled systematically, apart from a few negligible remains. An international symbol of division, the ‘Wall’ as such has disappeared – today it exists only in people’s memories. Stephan Kaluza walked the full 50 km of this more or less immaterial site of remembrance, along the […]
Zuspiel
Andreas Schulze is presenting “U.S. TRILOGY I, Vegas”. The series of inkjet prints made in 2006/07 is based on collective images and subjective narration, but evades any obvious orientation on a plot. No story is told here; it is more a matter of dissolving concrete structures of action and – in relation to this to […]
Zuspiel
As we begin using our new exhibition rooms, Christoph Tannert, CEO and artistic director, has developed a new format that suggests itself for a series of exhibitions, intending to make a direct visual connection between exhibition contributions by guests of the International Studio Programme at the Künstlerhaus and current positions which are not part of […]
Anouk Kruithof
Anouk Kruithof’s latest photo series “Becoming Blue” comprises 21 portraits and three spatial stills. They are presented in different formats and reveal Kruithof’s highly exceptional approach to the topic of portrait photography. First, the artist addressed those people that she found most individual and particularly expressive and persuaded them to participate in a photo session […]
Karen Yasinsky
In her video films, Karen Yasinsky makes use of the technical efforts involved as a means of insight: the complex techniques of animation are a welcome instrument with which to become more deeply engrossed in the characters. First the artist makes the figures and sets herself and then films them using a portable camera with […]
Can Altay
The installation “Setting a Setting / Forecasting a Broken Past” in Künstlerhaus Bethanien is a work in progress. Here, Can Altay presents the second issue of his continuing newspaper project “Ahali: a journal for setting a setting”, a publication that concerns artistic and site-related practices in connection with various aspects of urban society. Visitors are given the […]
Sophia Tabatadze
Sophia Tabatadze is concerned with political and social events that lead to change – often radical and sudden – in the life circumstances of those people affected. Above all, she documents and reflects on those changes that have been experienced by the inhabitants of her home country Georgia in the recent phase of its chequered […]
Pia Lindman
Pia Lindman’s creative work belongs to the tradition of minimalist performance and collective art, with a particular focus on the inherent performative aspect of art production. Starting out from site-specific conventions and customs, Lindman investigates social, political and economic conditions. Lindman describes her latest project, “Herr Puntila – spiritual journeys”, as a “participatory performance, video […]