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 […]
Christian Niccoli
Christian Niccoli’s artistic work examines situations and patterns of behaviour within different social groups, focusing on the interaction between individuals. Niccoli works with photography and video, and he always stages his themes with great precision, employing professional actors. His films do not copy reality, therefore; they represent it in an abstract and metaphorical way. In […]
Falkenrot Prize 2008
With their strong, bright colours and grid-like pictorial structure, Torben Giehler’s paintings and drawings automatically remind the viewer of digitally created realms like those familiar to him from computer games, flight simulators or CAD animations. In more recent works, Giehler has rejected his earlier motifs’ orientation on digitally generated models of urban landscapes and turned […]
Tellefsen / Voigt / Ziervogel
The exhibition “Tellefsen / Voigt / Ziervogel” (curator: Christoph Tannert) in Künstlerhaus Bethanien’s Studio 1 represents a fresh tour of discovery looking for a definition of principles within the graphical cosmos. Drawing takes on many roles and is accompanied by a range of anecdotes. It can supplement painting or sculpture as a preliminary study, but it may […]
An Te Liu
An Te Liu’s space-consuming sculptures and installations consist of standard commercial electrical devices to filter and moisten the air. Piled up beside and on top of each other in the exhibition space, with their straightforward design, air vents and slats, and the cool white and grey colours of their cases, they resemble the model constructions […]
Pjöngjang Pjöngjang
“Even in the year Juche 97, which is known elsewhere as 2008, North Korea seems to be on a different planet. The Great Leader Kim Il Sung, who died in 1994, rules as an Eternal President. His son Kim Jong Il is the much-loved leader. Military parades are flashy. Statues are up to 20 metres […]
Daniel Barroca
Daniel Barroca’s works are concerned with memory and its images, searching for contemporary interpretations of history’s fragmentary legacies such as photos, pictures, and sound and voice recordings. Barroca has a particular interest in materials that enable highly subjective views of a specific historical epoch or event, in the form of personal recordings by unknown individuals. […]
Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson
Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson work with a wide range of artistic media and examine themes relevant to the socio-political situation of public and urban space; their art is a matter of language, urban identity and the effects of globalisation on local communities. The projects are ‘nomadic’: numerous journeys, long periods staying on site and cooperation […]