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 […]
Martin Skauen
Martin Skauen confronts the viewers of his drawings and animated films with some truly apocalyptic scenarios. In formats that are sometimes quite huge, he evokes dismal places that may be the scenes of murder, war or cruel rituals. Skauen’s pictorial language owes much to the nightmarish visions of Hieronymus Bosch, for example, or to Greek […]
Falkenrot prize 2011
In keeping with Matelli’s ongoing themes of desolation, panic, ambivalence, despair and occasionally hope, his anti-monuments coalesce to present a central theme: the indeterminable. Time marches on, deteriorating some things, giving new life to others, or leaving some in perpetual limbo. Whether referencing 17th century Vanitas painting or a graffitied surface, Matelli refers to a […]
Berlin.Status [2]
BERLIN.STATUS [2] marks the second survey of new tendencies and trends in Berlin’s art scenes, undertaken by the curators Sven Drühl and Christoph Tannert. It has been a little over a year since BERLIN.STATUS [1], a period in which a lot happens in Berlin. A boom on the art and creative scenes and gentrification are […]
Roey Heifetz
Roey Heifetz’ most recent work consists of drawings of oversized figures that seem to float in front of the white paper background. The artist often provides them with generic titles such as “The Secretary”, “The Librarian” or “The Teacher” and subjects them to an intense process of deconstruction. The act of drawing is important to […]
TARANTEL 1
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 1 seeks its quarry among a curious public, with five artistic positions that Künstlerhaus Bethanien is setting into an international context for the very first time: their […]
Simon Le Ruez
Simon Le Ruez works across a variety of media that includes sculpture, installation, video and drawing. For the exhibition “As Poison Leaks Away” he will also be showing “Mariannenplatz”, 2010, a new photographic projection work. Le Ruez’s practice celebrates the notion of both an idea and a chosen medium transcending itself. “L’Entrée des Groites”, 2010, is a […]
Gerry Bibby
Prisma Pavillion is an independently free-standing structure whose limits invite transparency– its glass shapes are complicated by some opaque bricked areas that resist this invitation. Inside the place, there is another architectural shape of brick fueled by burning logs. It dispenses things that taste better after they’re heated and are sold by men for many […]
Michael Lee
Michael Lee works as an artist, curator and publisher. The main emphasis of his work is on urban history and fiction – and in this context with phenomena accompanying loss. Lee’s exhibition in Künstlerhaus Bethanien shows new and long-term works examining different aspects and facets of the topic of ‘loneliness’: “to map out solitude” as […]