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, […]
Die Drushba-Trasse oder was heisst hier Freundschaft?
In 1978, the illustrated book “Die Drushba-Trasse”, published by the Central Council of the FDJ in the GDR publishing house “Neues Leben”, was published. The authors are Peter Jacobs (text) and the photographer Thomas Billhardt. The book describes and celebrates the “project of the century of the GDR”, the construction of the natural gas pipeline […]
Yana Bachynska
The Pantheon of Fleeing Spirits is a narrative conveyed through sculpture and text, aiming to foster mutual understanding and interconnectedness by exploring the immigrant and refugee experience. Rooted in the journey of displacement, it delves into the significance of clothing as the last vestige of protection amidst the loss of home. The walls of an […]
Anja Engelke
Since the beginnings of photography, the medium has been repeatedly confronted with social and humanistic issues. Today, there are programs that generate images using Artificial Intelligence (AI) based on millions of images from the internet. The exhibition Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? builds on this technology while questioning AI in its role as “photographer”. […]
Minha Park
There is always something ghostly about the characters in films by Minha Park (*1985 in Seoul, lives and works in the same city). They take shape for a brief moment, intimating that they want to pass on a message. However, they lack a voice, vocabulary, or a body. These figures are captured on camera, their […]
Ella Sutherland
For her exhibition Argot at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Ella Sutherland considers the possibilities and the vulnerabilities of communication. Informing this work is an appreciation of social histories and the formal, material and technological conditions of language. Sutherland’s work is primarily visual in nature, and speaks to artistic traditions such as post-painterly abstraction and hard-edge painting. She […]
what we dream of – what we pay for
An exhibition with art scholarship holders of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung at Künstlerhaus Bethanien Anastasiia Batishcheva, Gabriel Enrique Corredor Aristizábal, Shokoufeh Eftekhar, Magdalena Kallenberger, Diego Antonio Oliva Tejeda, João Pedro Prado, Amir Tabatabaei und Astra Zoldnere Corona, climate chaos, war: The world is spinning with crises. Meanwhile, the ever-increasing concentration of property in the hands of a […]