Doy (Do Gyeong Kim)
The surreal universes that the Korean artist Doy (Do-gyeong Kim) fixes on the canvas are, at first glance, devoid of any topographical and physical logic or location. The landscapes are littered with architectural elements and amorphous formations of unknown aggregate state. Everything seems to turn itself inside out in constant motion. If one looks more […]
“Man is free, even if he were born in chains” (Friedrich Schiller, 1797). For the Korean artist Hyunsil Choi (born in 1980, lives and works in Daegu), physical, topographical or spatial restrictions are not a contradiction to the freedom of the spirit, but – on the contrary – its catalyst. Due to a foot injury […]
Émilie Picard
Emilie Picard’s delicate paintings show pastel-coloured debris in the form of artefacts, empty balloons, old pipes and cables, as well as fake plants and parasols. As an ensemble, the individual objects seem as if they had been forgotten or temporarily stored somewhere and now, freed from their actual function, want to tell us a story […]
Knut Ivar Aaser
In his artistic practice, Knut Ivar Aaser explores a wide variety of printing techniques and combines them experimentally. His current work series focuses on pattern-like image worlds, which mixes monotype printing with image transfers of magazine cut-outs. In previous works, he has focused intensively on textiles as a medium. This fascination is also reflected in […]
Hsu Ting
The liminal space describes a spatial threshold state between the past and the future. It functions like a kind of aesthetic memory that is tied to specific places of transition. It is like a corridor between two points frozen in time and space. This process of transformation shows the existence of the past and the […]
Martin Désilets
“I recently gained access to the storage rooms of the Goya Museum in Castres, France. With my 400-megapixel camera, I photographed each of the eighty engravings that make up Francisco Goya’s The Disasters of War, which I then superimposed to form an ensemble, or image. I printed the result in very large format, ten times […]
SEE YOU AT THE STUDIO
Between 2013 and 2023, the KfW Stiftung collaborated with Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin for an international artist-in-residence programme that promoted artistic production and intercultural dialogue with a global outlook. These past ten years have seen the same two residential studios repeatedly moved into, inhabited, occupied, personalised and made hospitable by a total of twenty fellows. […]
Saroot Supasuthivech
The work explores the memorialisation of histories and geographies in cinematic tableaux and dissolving 3D scanning artefacts. Focusing on the Mae Klong River, internationally known as the “River Kwai” and its association with the defunct Burma Railway, Supasuthivech reveals how this remote region in Kanchanaburi (Thailand) has been divorced from its heritage and transformed into […]
Miriam Kilali
Miriam Kilali lives and works in Berlin. Her artistic work explores different aspects of human knowledge and questions how it can be transported across different systems. From philosophical, scientific and religious forms of communication to technological tools, her artistic work spans different notions of knowledge acquisition and transfer. The golden room HEUREKA! is a voyage […]
Samira Hodaei
Sofreh refers to an iconic Persian fabric that is spread on the ground for eating or used as a backdrop for seasonal feasts and celebrations. Over time, the term itself has taken on a larger cultural significance, referring to concepts of gathering and sharing a place for family and friends to come together. In all […]