Madame Guillotine
Mark Soo‘s work focuses on the associations between culture, technology and the history of representation, and their impact on questions of subjectivity. Soo’s current exhibition “Madame Guillotine” is concerned with relations of image production and photography, as seen through depictions of the guillotine and associated images dating from the French Revolution. Sourced through digital archives […]
Exhibition in Kostrzyn
“Reminder Kostrzyn” (Denk-Zeichen Kostrzyn) After his attempt to escape Prussia, Crown Prince Friedrich was detained in Kostrzyn Castle by his father Friedrich Wilhelm I from 1730-1732. On 6th November 1730 the King had the prince’s friend Hans Hermann von Katte, who had tried to help him escape, beheaded before Friedrich’s eyes. The former fortress in […]
Zuspiel
In a further edition of the ZUSPIEL-series, Künstlerhaus Bethanien presents the film “Big Sexyland” (2008) by photographer and filmmaker Tobias Zielony. In his works Zielony portrays groups of youths in desolate surroundings: the interchangeable peripheries of cities such as Berlin, Bristol, or Marseille. He works in the style of reportage, however, his images are not […]
SUPER 8
SUPER 8 is an artist-curated, video art exhibition organized by the Los Angeles-based Christopher Grimes Gallery, where it first premiered July 8 through September 3, 2011. This ambitious video exhibition features the works of forty international contemporary artists. For this exhibition the gallery invited eight artists to curate a week-long program with fellow artists from […]
François Martig
The artist François Martig uses a wide range of media, from sculptural and sound installations to radio documentaries and photography in his. In addition to his visual work, he produces live sound and music performances as well as soundtracks combining soundscapes, field recordings, electro-acoustic music and noise. In 2005 Martig started working on his long-term project Robinsonhotel, […]
Ylva Westerlund
In her drawings, installations, performances, and videos Ylva Westerlund explores various scientific models of knowledge. By assuming alternate roles she switches between the artist-as- researcher to the subject of study itself. Westerlund’s work is influenced by her interests in social studies, post-structuralist feminism, and monsters. In the exhibition Evolutionary throwback Ylva Westerlund weaves a visual net, which oscillates […]
Caraota von Moules
Apart from Flemish artist Stéphane Schraenen (*1971, Antwerp), Carla Arocha (*1961, Caracas) and Arturo Herrera (*1959, Caracas) come from the same generation of artists from Venezuela. Today Arocha and Schraenen live in Antwerp; Arturo Herrera, after receiving a DAAD grant, has lived in Berlin since 2009. But what actually links these artists is much deeper-seated […]
Sensorium/ Go Into The Space
Mark Themann’s multi-layered art practice incorporates installations, performance, drawings, photo and print media. His installations and performances touch a terrain, which hovers between the phenomenological, the absurd, the tautological and the paradoxical. “Sensorium / Go Into This Space” is an installation in two parts, specifically conceived by the artist for the entrance space and the […]
THAT WOULD BE TELLING
ASSAF GRUBER’s artistic practice combines several media and is equally expressive and performative. His works evade simple categorisation and can be best described, perhaps, as “allegorical spatial arrangements” – on the one hand, they are always an expression of the artist’s efforts to overcome the limitations of sculpture, while on the other hand seeking to […]
Falkenrot Prize 2012
First endowed in 2005, the FALKENROT PRIZE pays tribute to artists at home and abroad whose work seems likely to set new standards in contemporary painting as well as adjacent fields. As in the past, Künstlerhaus Bethanien presents the work of the prize-winner, shown in the form of a comprehensive solo exhibition. The prize-winner in […]