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 […]
Roland Boden
Pneumopteria, which are also referred to as cloud whales or cloud sponges, and occasionally, in scientific language, as pneumospongia, in older treatises often sky leviathans, were gigantic, cloud-like creatures that seemed to float freely in the atmosphere without movement or propulsion. They could be several hundred meters in size. Today, they must most likely be […]
Alyona Tokovenko
Traumas, memories and fetishes – for Tokovenko, these are the fundamental pillars of our human identity. In her large-format, object-sensual and yet intimate works, she focuses primarily on these aspects. Mattresses, which she closely associates with sceneries of death, violence and suffering, as well as bloody and deformed body(-parts) are recurring elements in her multimedia […]
Mahsa Aleph
If a body (container) can be made of a soul (contained), what kind of a body would it be? Mahsa Aleph presents the possibility of raising such intellectual question through a metaphor: containers that have found the same nature as their contained (the plate becoming the bread becoming the plate), bringing the audience into an […]
PHOTOGRAPHS OF AN ABANDONED ARCHIVE FROM THE FORMER UKRAINIAN SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC
“Ukraine is a country of lost archives” – Oksana Zabuzhko, writer (2013) “In truth Ukraine is in a state of war not with Russia, but with the undead corpse of the USSR.” – TV Editor, Vinnitsa In the summer of 2010, German photographer and artist Burkhard von Harder traveled to central Ukraine (Volhynia-Podolia) for research, […]