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 […]
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 […]