Callooh! Callay!
Michael Kutschbach has been working with biomorphic forms in his drawings and sculptures for some time now, and also consciously permits himself to be inspired by the formal language of architecture and design. His drawings develop from a large number and variety of forms, which the artist produces using different lead and graphite pencils as […]
An Oblique Fiction
Isabel Simões plays with the viewer’s perception by making slight interventions into existing spatial structures. Reinterpreting the omnipresent signs and traffic symbols that can be seen in Berlin, her anamorphic paintings, often deceptively suggest three-dimensionality. The construction of a somehow scenographic space can define a path in which the spectator is performatively implied. Reflecting about […]
Astro Black
In their video installations and performance lectures Soda_Jerk work with audiovisual samples to create new narratives that revise and interrogate historical events and cultural trajectories. Their practice is fundamentally concerned with the production of counter-mythologies of the past that open new possibilities for interpreting the present. This conceptual strategy also informs their sample-based methodology, where the potential […]
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 […]