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 […]
Lisa Rosenmeier
Looking at Instagram accounts today, we see snapshots of a staged life, strung together like beads in a necklace. The involuntary response is: What came before these shots, what happened afterwards? It is this temporal dimension of photography that particularly interests Lisa Rosenmeier. Recently, she has been concerned more and more with the connection between […]
Sookoon Ang
NEW RELICS is an installation that immerses viewers in a metaphysical exploration within the complexities of time-space continuum. The work evokes a sense of timelessness, transporting observers to an ethereal realm where the past, present, and future coalesce. Consisting of two towering inflatables, each representing a potent symbol from different eras and cultures intersecting in […]
Jess Lau Ching-wa
The Cinema of Walking: Airship 27:06min TW/JP 2020 In February 2020, Jess Lau Ching-wa began filming the people of Kyoto as they crossed the Kamogawa River over the historic stepping stones. Positioned at Nijo Bridge, she recorded every time someone stepped down the slope to the stones and stopping when they left the frame. In […]
Ya-Wen Fu
In So Absurd! I look at what we are afraid of from different perspectives. What triggers our fears? A lack of identity? The loss of state protection? Displacement? The disruption of a state of balance? In times of political instability, these things come under threat or exist merely as vague hopes. The vulnerability of the […]
ANNA JÚLÍA FRIÐBJÖRNSDÓTTIR
I will keep close to you is an exploration of explicit and implicit communication. Playing with the International Code of Signals, Anna Júlía Friðbjörnsdottir’s multidimensional pieces render our attempts to connect and communicate with one another while creating a space for the ambiguity, byproducts, and miscommunications that subsequently arise. The International Code of Signals is […]
Nicolas Gebbe
Nicolas Gebbe The Sunset Special 17:30min D 2021 This scintillating film collage deals with the effects of social media and aggressive advertising, which are interwoven with reality-distorting images and exaggerations and, thanks to new technologies, seem ever more individually adapted. In a sweetly sticky swirl of nostalgia, longings and wanderlust, perfectly adapted products are advertised: […]
Markus Draper
In Markus Draper’s exhibition House near a Big Forest, a fly tells the story of the KGB’s links to reform movements in the Soviet Union. The focus of the narrative lies on the building on Angelikastrasse 4 in Dresden that formerly housed the KGB headquarters. The address has become famous as the workplace of the […]
Per Svensson
Per Svensson’s (*1965 in Gothenburg, lives and works in Sweden) self-image as an artist is that of a researcher with special powers. His artistic work is more a free form of research that incorporates various techniques such as sculpture, film, drawing, sound and music and also opens up to spiritual disciplines of knowledge acquisition. In […]