Klaus Hähner-Springmühl
Klaus Hähner-Springmühl (1950 – 2006), was one of East Germany’s most idiosyncratic artists. From the 1970s onwards, he was a radical performer who experienced and documented his life as an art process, not on the sunny side of the socialist establishment but shoulder to shoulder with the rebels of his generation in Karl-Marx-Stadt, Dresden, Leipzig […]
FLYING
FLYING is a climate killer. Every plane journey that can be avoided protects the environment. More than 60 artists were asked to lend wings to their ideas for the exhibition FLYING, among them many former fellowship holders at Künstlerhaus Bethanien. There was no prescribed minimum altitude. The emerging group of works is correspondingly free – […]
Constantinos Taliotis
Constantinos Taliotis researches the special features of particular film genres, e.g. gangster and espionage films, film noir and science fiction, and appropriates these features in his works to create his own filmic narratives. He analyzes not only the actors’ gestures and the specifics of costume, lighting and set design but also the way in which scarcely perceptible […]
Zuspiel
Our current ZUSPIEL issue will present individual works by Kasia Fudakowski and Thomas Gust. „A grouping of works exploring the swing between positive and negative interpretations of Enthusiastinnen (female enthusiasts). Rusty, convulsed, dug-up shapes are carefully placed together to form recognisable features, and with great enthusiasm, miss-interpreted into parallel functions. Alleged situations are recreated, sometimes […]
Young & Giroux
Daniel Young and Christian Giroux have been working together since 2002. They produce sculptures, art in public space and film installations, in which they investigate the relations between architecture and sculpture. Young & Giroux adapt and question modernist forms by applying methods and construction systems from the industrial manufacture of consumer goods, prototypes or machine […]
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, […]