Zen Teh
Zen Teh is a Singaporean artist and educator interested in the interdisciplinary study of nature and human behaviour. Her art practice spans the fields of photography, sculpture, and installation art. Over the course of her career, Teh has initiated numerous collaborative projects with artists, art professionals, and scientists. During her time as an artist-in-residence in […]
Douglas Kolk
Douglas Kolk (1963, Newark—2014, Boston) was a USA-born and based artist whose life and practice were closely intertwined with Berlin’s artistic milieu of the 1990s. Kolk’s work revolved around questions of identity, initially through small-format drawings and later through large-format collages combined with painting. The exhibition at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, featuring Douglas Kolk’s works from the […]
KB LOUNGE
Make yourself comfortable in our foyer! Here you can browse through our publications, watch video interviews with former Künstlerhaus Bethanien fellows and work on your laptop. Coffee and cake are available at Café Loro next door, and you can also take some to go in the lounge! Of course, there will also be some art. […]
Neozoon
NEOZOON SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE 3:36 min D 2016 The experimental found-footage collage SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE is based on digital greeting cards from big-game hunters. These animated GIF files, which are exchanged between the hunters, reproduce the minimal movement of shaking hands in a ghostly loop in which the hunted prey coagulates into a staffage against […]
Eric Leiser
The Anthropocene is compelling us to re-evaluate our perception of time. It forces us to confront the inexorable march of climate change, which is systematically reshaping the very fabric of our cities and landscapes. In stark contrast to this relentless transformation, Eric Leiser’s “Pinnacles” emerges as a contemplative work, a minimal yet monumental film dedicated […]
Yann Annicchiarico
When you enter the exhibition to the stranger within by Yann Annicchiarico at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, you are initially confronted with an impression of emptiness. This is underlined by a diffuse light atmosphere that resembles a state of twilight. Only a little light penetrates through the gaps in the black Molton curtains. Only on closer inspection […]
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 […]