Max Kreis
Trees are still barkin'
2022, Germany
3:00 min
12.09.–22.09.2022
4 – 10 pm
In his work "Trees are still barkin'", Max Kreis (b. 1990, lives and works in Berlin) explores the question of how closely the images of an artificial intelligence can resemble the documentation of a real landscape. In the process, he finds darkly interwoven atmospheres in specially trained AI models, which in their nostalgic blurriness seem to have sprung from a casually filming hand-held camera. The wandering gaze through “latent space” makes it palpable that the digital image will potentially be congruent with nature in a few hardware generations. And thus evokes the larger question that will be asked more frequently in the coming years of the AI revolution: Are we living in a simulation after all?
The on-going screening series “Phantom Horizons” presents digital as well as analogue works that question the paradigm of linear perspective, seeking a new kind of “status perspective” [Bedeutungsperspektive]. The latter was a development of ancient and medieval painting, in which the size of figures is determined by their hierarchical significance. Extending this approach using the methodology of deconstruction and the possibilities of contemporary film creation, the presented works open up multifaceted, unseen horizons.
Curated by Robert Seidel
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Künstlerhaus Bethanien EXHIBITIONS 2022
EXHIBITIONS Fall/Winter 2022
DISSONANCE. Platform Germany
– 11.09.2022
NICOLE RAFIKI
30.09. – 23.10.2022
Opening 29.09.2022, 7pm
FRANÇOIS LEMIEUX
30.09. – 23.10.2022
Opening 29.09.2022, 7pm
LISA KOHL
“BLINDSPOT”
30.09. – 23.10.2022
Opening 29.09.2022, 7pm
THOMAS SCHMAHL
“Backing Vocals”
30.09. – 23.10.2022
Opening 29.09.2022, 7pm
YUN-PEI HSIUNG
30.09. – 23.10.2022
Opening 29.09.2022, 7pm
MANIFEST Yourself!
(Queer) Feminist Manifestos since the Suffragettes
11.11. – 11.12.2022
Opening 10.11.2022, 7pm
Künstlerhaus Bethanien
SHOWROOM
Kottbusser Straße 10
10999 Berlin
Tue – Sun
2 – 7pm
admission free!
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Kathrin Hunze, Singularis, 2019/22
OPEN WINDOW
13.06. – 21.07.2022
4–11pm
Kathrin Hunze
Singularis 2019/22
12:15 min
Singularis is an interwoven network of synthetic body sculptures, enmeshed in a web of interactions and juxtapositions. The originating biological surfaces were scanned, translated into digital point clouds and distorted through an audiovisual granular system, carving out noise patterns and biological rhythms. Originally conceived by Kathrin Hunze (b. 1983, lives and works in Berlin) as a real-time performance in 2019, the work has evolved into video installations and film variations that reimagine the potential of hybrid bodies and their gender fluidity, as well as their spatial and temporal construction.
Phantom Horizons
The on-going screening series Phantom Horizons presents digital as well as analogue works that question the paradigm of linear perspective, seeking a new kind of “status perspective” [Bedeutungsperspektive]. The latter was a development of ancient and medieval painting, in which the size of figures is determined by their hierarchical significance. Extending this approach using the methodology of deconstruction and the possibilities of contemporary film creation, the presented works open up multifaceted, unseen horizons.
Curated by Robert Seidel
#kathrinhunze
#robertseidel
BIRGIT DIEKER | One for Sorrow, Two for Joy
We would like to introduce you to the works of Birgit Dieker. Unfortunately, the exhibition has been over since last Sunday.
#BirgitDieker #KünstlerhausBethanien
BIRGIT DIEKER, One for Sorrow, Two for Joy
BIRGIT DIEKER, One for Sorrow, Two for Joy
Familienaufstellung, 2020
lead crystal glass, FIMO modeling clay, glass dome
Height: 74 cm, diameter: 38 cm
Base: steel
110 x 42 x 42 cm
The relationship between Self as Skin and Self as in the Skin is particularly important for Birgit Dieker’s artistic thinking. She is thinking of skin not only as the outer surface of the body, but also as the boundary between inside and outside, private and public, between the self and the world. For her, skin is a surface of encounters for intimacy and closeness.
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JUNKO MARUYAMA
Alles Lebt, (Everything is alive) 2021, Installation, drawing, film
"Manonamanamono", that's what Junko Maruyama calls her sculptures created from homemade soap, a large number of which occupy the interior of a tent, the fabric of which has also been thinly coated with soap.
"Manonamanamono" is a term of art, a word invented by the artist. It aims at something spiritually atmospheric, ephemeral, at a state that is not yet, but evolving between "raw" and "ephemeral".
You can write any Japanese word in different sign languages. The artist writes her artificial word Manonamanamono, clearly oriented towards sound and phonetic language, in Hirigana. Each Hiragana character stands for a mora, the basic unit of Japanese sound.
Junko Maruyama's life and art are characterized by universal thinking. The world, man and every creature, the weather, the environment, all materials and her own intuition determine the time and place of each work of art.
The overall installation of tent and soap objects is complemented by soap drawings on a wooden background and an animated film. The quiet murmur of the moving images, the fragility of the thin layer of soap on wooden panels and the arrangement of objects and nylon cloth to form a cave-like shelter give the impression of an interrelated spiritual cosmos. In accordance with the Japanese folk belief Tsukumogami, Maruyama invokes an animistic conception of object relations that assumes an ensoulment of things. With “Alles Lebt” (Everything is alive), an intimate space is created in which the exhibition visitor feels reminded of the value of things that seem so self-evident through the sensitivity and care Maruyama takes in handling the materials. Entering the tent construction evokes associations with the human body and the objects spread out on the floor there are reminiscent of embryos in form, materiality and colour. The uniqueness inherent in every creature and thing is just as palpable as the transience with
BIRGIT DIEKER One for Sorrow, Two for Joy
BIRGIT DIEKER, One for Sorrow, Two for Joy
"Nimmersatt" 2019 by Birgit Dieker
110 x 40 x 40 cm, Aufhängung Drahtseil
The relationship between Self as Skin and Self as in the Skin is particularly important for Birgit Dieker’s artistic thinking. She is thinking of skin not only as the outer surface of the body, but also as the boundary between inside and outside, private and public, between the self and the world. For her, skin is a surface of encounters for intimacy and closeness.
#KünstlerhausBethanien #BirgitDieker #Berlin #contemporaryart #artberlin #contemporaryartberlin
Birgit Dieker - One for Sorrow, Two for Joy
BIRGIT DIEKER, One for Sorrow, Two for Joy
"hell and heil" 2015 by Birgit Dieker
Bett-, Nacht- und Unterwäsche, Federrahmengestell, 223 x 120 x 113 cm
The relationship between Self as Skin and Self as in the Skin is particularly important for Birgit Dieker’s artistic thinking. She is thinking of skin not only as the outer surface of the body, but also as the boundary between inside and outside, private and public, between the self and the world. For her, skin is a surface of encounters for intimacy and closeness.
#KünstlerhausBethanien #BirgitDieker #Berlin #contemporaryart #artberlin #contemporaryartberlin
Tsuyoshi Anzai - GROUNDED | 2.10 - 24.10.21
Tsuyoshi Anzai uses everyday objects as his primary medium, above all cheap plastic products consumed everywhere around the world. He creates simple-structured machines by making impromptu combinations of everyday items and motors. These kinetic sculptures display unexpected behavior. They move clumsily as if going through conflicts in reconciling different purposes of their single components. They behave like creatures with their own will. Anzai defines these machines as “things that are beyond control”, i.e. the world itself. For him producing works is a way to communicate with phenomena in this world that we cannot control. Currently, he focuses on the relationship between plastics and humans. He captures contradictions of our world surrounding consumerism, the oil industry, and environmentalism by giving them a different perspective.
More informations: https://www.bethanien.de/artists/tsuyoshi-anzai/
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SAVE THE DATE!!!
We are happy to announce that the exhibition "Swimming Pool - Troubled Waters" is happening from 6th August until 15th September 2021.
Artists: Daniel Bozhkov, Nina Canell, C& Center of Unfinished Business, Mounir Gouri, Hulda Rós Gudnadóttir, Klara Hobza, Fermín Jiménez Landa, Santiago Mostyn, New Mineral Collective (Tanya Busse and Emilija Škarnulytė), Sandra Vaka, Ulrich Vogl, Ming Wong and ZEVS
+ Film programme by Olaf Stüber with works by Hanna Arvela, Alice Creischer, Rä di Martino, Monira Al Qadiri, Julika Rudelius and Corinna Schnitt
Curator: Valeria Schulte-Fischedick
Curatorial assistance: Gustav Elgin, Carola Uehlken
The exhibition draws on the wide range of ideas and emotions we associate with the topos of the swimming pool, and seeks to expose those common clichés and prejudices that chart our diverse, lasting, and often murky experiences with water. The exhibition probes class barriers and systems of exclusion, amongst others those brought to the surface by the European migrant crisis. References from film history, contemporary art, and a participative reading room developed by C& Center of Unfinished Business, attempts to sound out the gradual infiltration of the issues of inclusion and exclusion into the awareness of affluent societies.
In the exhibition, the waters of the swimming pool as a carefree sign of prosperity and the corresponding clichés are permanently clouded.
LAST WEEK TO SEE THE CURRENT EXHIBITIONS BY DANTE BUU, MARÌA DALBERG, DANIEL LIE, RHYS HIMSWORTH & SANTIAGO MOSTYN. We are open from Tuesday to Sunday between 2 and 7 pm!
LOOKING FORWARD to welcoming you again at KB to visit the next exhibitions by Dante Buu, Santiago Mostyn, Rhys Himsworth, Daniel Lie, and María Dalberg, opening from 11th June 2021! Please SAVE THE DATE! You can book your tickets shortly online.
KB TOUR EXTENDED
In case you didn't have the chance to visit the last exhibitions at KB by Seulki Ki, Styrmir Örn Gudmundsson, Melanie Jame Wolf, Yuya Suzuki and Hamlet Lavastida, we are happy to share with you an extended version of the KB Tour, including introductions by the artists.
Camera: Peter Rosemann
Interview and translation: Camille Herding
Direction and editing: Arthur Debert
KB - ITW #09 Shoufay Derz
Seulki Ki - Do Not and Cannot are Different
LAST CHANCE TO SEE the exhibitions by Amélie Laurence Fortin, Ingrid Lønningdal, Eric Schumacher, Lauryn Youden and Johanna Terhechte!
Please come by from today until Sunday between 2 and 7 pm.
✨ If you haven't been able to come to the opening weekend: This is a little teaser to visit KB and see the current exhibitions by Amélie Laurence Fortin, Ingrid Lønningdal, Eric Schumacher, Lauryn Youden and Johanna Terhechte! ✨ Video: Arthur Debert
PLEASE COME AND JOIN THE SOFT OPENING TOMORROW AT KB BETWEEN 2 AND 7 PM! Hope to see you tomorrow! And of course: Please be so kind and bring your masks!
Our opening hours are Tuesday - Sunday 2 - 7 pm | The shows are one from 2nd October - 25th October 2020.
KB Tour
For those who couldn't make it to the current exhibitions at KB yet: Please come and visit until 13th September 2020 to see the shows by the artists-in-residence Yang Chi-Chuan, Shoufay Derz, Katsuhiko Matsubara, Rie Nagai & Yurika Sunada.
Video: Arthur Debert
PLEASE COME AND JOIN THE SOFT OPENING TOMORROW AT KB BETWEEEN 2 AND 7 PM! The current artists-in-residence Yang Chi-Chuan, Shoufay Derz, Katsuhiko Matsubara, Rie Nagai and Yurika Sunada worked on their solo exhibitions at KB during this extraordinary Berlin summer heat wave and brought together an amazing presentation of their current work! Hope to see you tomorrow! Please be so kind, and bring your masks! 🎭
We congratulate former KB resident Marinella Senatore, who is going to present her work at the Biennale Gherdëina curated by Adam Budak from August 8th - October 20th, 2020 in very good company. 👏👏👏
The Biennale Gherdëina will happen again across public spaces of Ortisei, Val Gardena, in the picturesque landscape of the Dolomites, the celebrated UNESCO Heritage Site. With its focus on the public space as a stage for sculptural works and community-based, participatory projects, has always been perceived as a celebration of a unique place, its rich culture and a vivid local tradition. The circumstances of the forthcoming edition are particularly challenging. The pandemic crisis made us aware of a vulnerability of the humans and the nature. Resilience become a paramount urgency; the notions of shared responsibility and a humility as an ethical moderator of interpersonal relations gain a particular importance in an attempt to redefine the agencies of responsiveness and care. The Biennale Gherdeina 7 will reflect these concerns as challenges in the active processes of the world’s remaking.
GIF: Marcello Maloberti, from Martellate. Scritti Fighi, 1990-2020.
Courtesy of the artist and Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan.
KB ITW #05 Styrmir Örn Guðmundsson
Last week we had the great pleasure to meet the Icelandic artist Styrmir Örn Guðmundsson at his studio at KB, having prepared a very special performance for us. Styrmir created his personal pandemic diary. Within drawings, comments and music he shares in a humorous but sensible way, how he experienced this world in confinement, and the every day news out there.
Styrmir's work ranges between performance, drawing, music and sculpture with a love for the absurd. This doesn't mean any obsessive passion for the ridiculous, nonsensical or the odd, but moreso derives from a tender and caring attitude: he takes care of the absurd, he helps it to develop, he gives it a place alongside everything else, a space where, ones it is set free, it can become a most disturbing neighbor or even a best friend.
Styrmir is kindly supported by the Icelandic Art Center. You can find more information to his work here:
http://www.styrmir.eu/
LAST WEEK TO SEE!
The exhibitions by Gladys Kalichini, Igor Vidor, Logan MacDonald, Annedore Dietze & Paul Wesenberg are open until 12 July 2020, open from Tue - Sun, 2 - 7pm.
Video: Arthur Debert
