Falkenrot Prize 2007
Sven Drühl’s artistic work lies in the field of conceptual painting, belonging to the tradition of serial and Appropriation Art. In a kind of remix or transformation, he re-interprets famous paintings from art history or contemporary art. As patterns for his unconventional paintings, he chooses ‘classics’ ranging from Monet and C.D. Friedrich to Hodler, even […]
Marianne Vierø
Marianne Vierø works with photography and installation, which she employs partly as an inseparable entity, partly as strictly separate media. The objects that she photographs are usually unspectacular and everyday. It is only in the context in which they are presented – or from which they are taken – that a shift takes place in […]
Serhat Köksal
Serhat Köksal has continued to develop his multimedia project 2/5 BZ, initiated in Istanbul in 1986, up until the present day, expressing himself in a wide range of media forms. Besides audiovisual performances like “NO Touristik NO Exotic”, which have been shown internationally, Serhat Köksal has produced an uncountable number of tapes, CDs, video-collages, performances, […]
Zoya Cherkassky
Zoya Cherkassky often develops her picture motifs on the computer, prints them onto canvas, and finally adapts the result using acrylics and oil paints – a process that consciously emphasises the serial aspect and expresses Cherkassky’s interest in themes such as identity and individuality in the context of contemporary mass culture. For her project “disobedience”, […]
Ursula Berlot
Ursula Berlot concerns herself with elementary organic processes in the natural world, metamorphous conditions of light and matter, and their analogy to mental processes of perception. Her kinetic light installations investigate relations between the material and the immaterial, feeling and understanding, the transient and the permanent. Falling through striated Perspex glass, reflected light creates monochrome, […]
Fluxus East
Fluxus is well-known as an (anti-)artistic, international network with centres in the USA, Western Europe and Japan. But what about this “intermedia” art – art encompassing music, actions, poetry, objects and events – beyond the “Iron Curtain”? What echo did Fluxus find in the states of the former Eastern Bloc, and what parallel developments existed […]
Hadley+Maxwell
The Canadian artist duo Hadley+Maxwell focus their work on themes within the conflicting spheres of politics and aesthetics, subjectivity and political experience. Here, they employ a wide range of media including video, photography and music, but also posters and slogans. “1+1-1” refers to Jean-Luc Godard’s film “Sympathy for the Devil”, made in 1968, which also […]
Window Display
The Künstlerhaus Bethanien presents a new exhibition cycle: “Window Display” produced for the public space at Kottbusser Straße 10. Passers-by will be able to view monthly solo presentations by international artists on a screen inside our gallery window from now on. “One Hundred Favorites /Sto Ulubionych” (2007-2009) is a work by Polish artist Magda Buczek and […]
Ben Cauchi
In his work Ben Cauchi creates meticulously composed photographic objects by employing the complicated 19th century process of collodion wet plate photography. First, the artist covers a glass plate with collodion. Then he soaks it in a silver nitrate sensitizing bath, and finally fits the wet plate into the camera. Immediately after exposure, an iron […]
Tarantel 2
A tarantula is an arachnid from the family of wolf spiders. Signs of poisoning and St. Vitus’ dance are generally attributed to the bite of the tarantula. TARANTEL 2 seeks its quarry among a curious public, with four artistic positions that Künstlerhaus Bethanien is setting into an international context for the very first time: their […]