Richard Mosse
In his photographic research, Richard Mosse makes use of a discontinued military surveillance technology. The color infrared film Kodak Aerochrome was originally developed for camouflage detection and registers an invisible spectrum of infrared light, rendering green landscapes in vivid hues of lavender, crimson, and hot pink. In the late 1960s, the medium was appropriated in […]
Linn Pedersen
Linn Pedersen’s artistic practice includes photography, collage and sculpture as well as video and film. Her photographs, in which she combines documentary aspects with poetic elements, show various motifs and material remains of our consumer society, landscapes, architecture, and human figures that turn demonstratively away from the camera. In her exhibition Floor Arrangements Pedersen combines […]
Mauro Cerqueira
Mauro Cerqueira’s method of working is multidisciplinary, encompassing not only photography, video and drawing but also performance, painting and sculpture. One of his preferred formats is printed publication, which enables him to elaborate on content in a narrative way. Cerqueira’s projects in recent years have been inspired by the environment in which he lived and […]
David Armstrong-Six
For his exhibition at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, David Armstrong-Six reinvestigates notions of materiality and objecthood in relation to sculpture. The ten new sculptures in wood, bronze, plaster and glass which are collected here under the umbrella Civil Elegies From The Vacuum State are meant as a series of ruminations which seem to emerge equally from the vestiges of […]
Volkskunsthalle / People’s Art Space
Romeo Gongora works on his installations, actions and performances in the environment in which he is currently living, collaborating with members of different social groups. Continual dialogue with those involved is characteristic of his cooperative working method; the participants collaborate until the final ‘product’ is complete, exercising a decisive influence on the outcome. Romeo Gongora’s most recent work, […]
Gestures, Splits and Annulations
Alicia Frankovich investigates the performativity of the body, which she presents in various states of restriction, yet always with the potential for self-release. In her performances, sculptures and performance-based films, bodies – often the body of the artist herself – are put into states of tension with sculptural apparatuses, often tangled on the floor or suspended in […]
Polish!
We’ve remained strangers to each other. That is why we have this constant yearning for normality. What do we know about our neighbors? Are there conflicts? How does each of us reconcile himself with his background? What interests Poles and Germans about each other? An exhibition titled “Polish! Contemporary Art from Poland”, which revolves around certain […]
The Vertical Stage
André Romão’s works usually develop from his research into a specific historical or literary situation. He expands its levels of meaning by working on the widest possible spectrum of sources and references and re-assembling them in a fresh way in the context of his work. Thus Romão’s works are always collages – in the direct […]
The Random Series -berliner trato-
Miguel Ángel Tornero’s artistic work is based on an extensive personal photo archive, which the artist collected together over a period of many years by almost obsessively taking documentary photographs of every conceivable situation and occurrence, plants, animals, people or architectural environments. These images provide the starting material for Tornero‘s digital collages. Tornero‘s pictures are equally striking […]
Tomorrow is a long time
To create her videos, objects and installations, Rose Eken exploits the myths of Rock’n’roll and the culture surrounding it in the creation of new narratives. The aura and physical detritus surrounding a (rock)concert is her subject – mythically charged props are replicated, re-staged and also re-scaled. Eken’s works are never simply one-to-one renderings. Rather she changes scale […]