Künstlerhaus Bethanien

10/06/2020

Fonds culturel national

We are so looking forward to having Eric Schumacher join us at KB! The artist who is currently based between Scotland & Luxembourg has been selected by the Fonds culturel national for a 6 month residency at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, with the support of the Ministère de la Culture, Luxembourg.

Before we welcome Eric on 1 July, he has an exhibition at Nosbaum Reding Projects in which he's presenting new works that "dwell on the complex relationships between global consumer culture and the modernist ideals underpinning it".

http://www.nosbaumreding.lu/en/artists/exhibitiondetails/12830/eric-schumacher-plzz-za?iae=236

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Eric Schumacher, prochain résident au Künstlerhaus Bethanien à Berlin

Récompensé plusieurs fois au Royaume-Uni, Eric Schumacher a déjà exposé au Luxembourg comme à l’étranger. En 2017, il a été sélectionné pour participer à la Triennale de la jeune création Jet-Lag aux Rotondes, sa première exposition au Luxembourg où il a su montrer à la fois sa modestie et son humour en exposant Cluderer, une série de sculptures amassant les travaux rejetés des artistes ayant candidaté pour la Triennale. Eric Schumacher prouve aussi qu’il sait s’adapter à son environnement et se l’approprier : dans une quête de sens suite au vote sur le Brexit, l’artiste a effectué un tour d’Europe depuis l’Ecosse, en passant par l’ex Yougoslavie jusqu’à la Grèce. En 2019, à la suite de son road-trip, Eric Schumacher a participé au prix Robert Schuman, sous proposition de Stilbé Schroeder. En travaillant sur une évocation du voyage et de ses différentes composantes, il a su rappeler au public que le voyage n’est pas qu’une simple question de destination et d’organisation pratique mais aussi un problème collectif qui renvoi à l’essentiel : la nature et le vivre ensemble. Son exposition pLzZ zA, première intervention chez Nosbaum Reding Projects, ouvrira jeudi 11 juin 2020.

Cette résidence de six mois au Künstlerhaus Bethanien permettra à Eric Schumacher de cultiver les suites de son travail sur /11;11; et de travailler le dessin et la peinture toujours avec un concept tridimensionnel. Ses recherches porteront sur les liens entre la « commercialisation de l’environnement humain » et nos « comportements rituels innés », sous le titre de travail Work Hard Play Hard.

En collaboration avec le Ministère de la Culture, Luxembourg

https://mailchi.mp/focuna/guy3q25u80-2100027?e=6431b510d6

10/06/2020

Normally our discussion series Show me your Architecture would happen on-site, but due to current circumstances virtual resident Hamlet Lavastida (@hamletlavastida ) recently shared some thoughts about his work in an online meeting -


About the revolution that shaped Cuba into a communist republic, how the country's culture is more deeply situated in politics than nationality, and how the DDR became an unlikely role-model for Cuban communist society. Here's a peek at what he's working with!

Hamlet Lavastida is grantee of the KfW-Stiftung.


#Hamletlavastida #residentartist #berlinart #kfwstiftung #residency

09/06/2020

Künstlerhaus Bethanien's cover photo

08/06/2020

Igor Vidor

Image: Reverse goat skull, 2020, Digital print, Maße variabel, Courtesy the artist, © Igor Vidor, Berlin.

Exhibition: Allegory of Terror
Running: 19 June - 12 July 2020

08/06/2020

Logan Mac Donald
Exhibition: bætha / repatriate
Running: 19 June - 12 July 2020

08/06/2020

The 22nd Biennale of Sydney reopens with extended dates

It’s wonderful to see that this year’s Biennale of Sydney is reopening now with extended dates. Under the artistic direction of former KB resident Brook Andrew-Artist, the artist- and First Nations-led Biennale proposes to demonstrate “that artists and creatives have the power to resolve, heal, dismember and imagine futures of transformation for re-setting the world. Sovereignty is at the centre of these actions, and shines a light on environments in shadow.”

https://www.biennaleofsydney.art/media/media-releases/22nd-biennale-sydney-reopens-extended-dates/

The 22nd Biennale of Sydney, titled NIRIN, returns in 2020 from 14 March to 8 June, with Artistic Director Brook Andrew.

06/06/2020

KB

Save the date!! On 19 June, we are so very happy to be reopening with new solo exhibitions:

Gladys Kalichini - “... these gestures of memory”
Logan Mac Donald - “bætha / repatriate”
Igor Vidor - “Allegory of Terror”
Annedore Dietze
Paul Wesenberg

Stay tuned for more info coming soon!

(include reopen pic)

https://www.bethanien.de/en/

04/06/2020

Redner, Statements und Gesichter – www.kunstforum.de

KUNSTFORUM International's latest issue is focused on contemporary painting and politics. It includes the article 'Redner, Statements und Gesichter' on how artists question social and political power structures, featuring former KB resident Vincent Valdez, as well as Christine Wang, Tatjana Doll and Caroline Walker.

https://www.kunstforum.de/artikel/redner-statements-und-gesichter/

Politische Malerei Redner, Statements und Gesichter Was wird gezeigt? Und wie oft? Wer macht die Pressetitel? Wer steht am Rednerpult? Und welche Gesichter bleiben einem Publikum verborgen? Gegenwärtige politische Malerei verdeutlicht das ökonomische System von medialer Aufmerksamkeit. Denn um an ...

03/06/2020

#KBHistory
"I have been here always, I saw everlasting death." The constant voice of the artist Carrie Mae Weems follows us through the installation "Ritual and Revolution" (1992), recently on view at Galerie Barbara Thumm, and exhibited for the first time in our old location at Mariannenplatz. The large digital prints on transparent muslin drapes move as visitors brush past them, reminding us of our own actuating force in the historical events they depict: The historical ruins of Elmina Castle, the area of West-Africa where slave traders shipped black captives to North-America, or police violence against peaceful protesters fighting for equal rights - ruinous and destructive moments of human history. A past as relevant today as when the exhibition was first shown.

@carriemaeweems
#blacklivesmatter #galeriebarbarathumm
#kuenstlerhausbethanien

03/06/2020

Spotlight on Stary Mwaba whose work engages with the current socio-political circumstances in Zambia. Recently, the former KB resident has turned attention to the Copperbelt region to create labour-intensive newsprint canvases that highlight how the role of mining has affected people there. In ‘Silikoses’ (2019), we see a man who is waiting for a medical exam to find out if he has silicosis, a form of lung disease caused by inhaling mineral dust.

Image: Stary Mwaba
'Silikoses', 2019
Mixed media on perforated newsprint
200 × 139 cm
Courtesy the artist and Modzi Arts.

https://www.artsy.net/artist/stary-mwaba

02/06/2020

Spotlight on Gladys Kalichini. The Zambian artist’s practice includes painting, digital work and installations, through which she explores representations of women in relation to dominant, national colonial histories. In her video “Burial: Erasing Erasure” (2017), she stages a Zambian burial practice in which some mourners are covered with white powder (chinbuyaring). In doing so, she aims to create space for mourning and remembering, especially for the loss or disappearance of historically important women from public narratives of Zambia’s struggle for independence in the early 1960s, such as Alice Lenshina (b.1920 - d.1978) and Julia Chikamoneka (b.1910 – d.1986).

This piece is now on view as part of the online format of this year’s Bienal do Mercosul. Gladys will soon also be opening her solo show “... these gestures of memory” at KB this coming 19 June, stay tuned for more info!

Gladys' residency at KB is supported by the KfW Stiftung

Image: Gladys Kalichini (video still) "Burial: Erasing Erasure" 2017. 4’29’’. Courtesy the artist.

http://www.fundacaobienal.art.br/bienal-12-obras/Burial%3A-Erasing-Erasure?lang=en

29/05/2020

Welcome back! Another artist that has recently settled back into his studio accomodation in Berlin is Japanese artist Katsuhiko Matsubara (@katsuhiko.matsubara.studio ).
Under normal circumstances Katsuhiko would have showcased his organic, pulsating paintings at the Künstlerhaus this May - the postponed opening now takes place on the 21st of August. Save the date!

In the meantime you can still visit Katsuhiko's creature-like paintings in a couple of exhibition spaces in Berlin:

Foto 1: 3 large-scale painting "Hourglass #1,2,3", Bar Am (@baramberlin ), Berlin 28.05.2020 - 01.08.2020 (Ongoing)

Foto 2: Lost In Transformation, Japanisch-Deutsches Zentrum, Berlin 16.03.2020 - 28.08.2020 (Ongoing)

Foto 3: Foto 1: Group show "Der River", Spinnerei, Leipzig 21.02.2020 - 04.04.2020 (Finished)

Foto 4: Studio

#japanischdeutscheszentrum #katsuhikomatsubara #artistsinresidence #closedbutopen #kuenstlerhausbethanien #spinnerei

29/05/2020

Æ – The Forage

This weekend in Kreuzberg - 'The Forage'! Take yourself on an exploration of the neighbourhood to playfully discover artworks by Berlin-based artists, including current KB resident Mar Fjell together with Malin Arnell, who will be doing a one hour action each day.

In the words of the organisers Æ: "The Forage is an invitation to rummage, to wander, to queer the Kiez in search for these treasures"

Check the website for the map and further info:

May 30 - June 1, 2020.
We will be doing an one hour action on each day.

http://www.aeproject.info/

29/05/2020

Fukuoka Art Museum

Former KB Aiko Tezuka has work in the current exhibition of ‘Collection Highlights’ at the Fukuoka Art Museum. Her 2016 piece ‘Certainty / Entropy’ is on view amongst the likes of Salvador Dalí, Andy Warhol, Yayoi Kusama and Yinka Shonibare, not a bad crowd to be presented among!

https://www.fukuoka-art-museum.jp/en/collection/?q=modern

This site is the official one of The Fukuoka Art Museum. In March 2019, the Fukuoka Art Museum was reborn！

28/05/2020

History - English - Future Generation Art Prize

Applications for the Future Generation Art Prize are due 3 June! The prestigious award of a staggering US$100,000 is open to all artists around the world aged 35 or younger. Last year, we had the pleasure of hosting the winner of 2019’s main prize at KB - Emilija Škarnulytė.

https://futuregenerationartprize.org/en/history

27/05/2020

Wonderful - more of our artists are finally returning to their studios, and we'll keep you updated as they keep trickling back in! Tomorrow, we'll give you a peek into the continued practice of our first returned artist - Amélie Laurence Fortin (@amelielaurencefortin ).
In the meantime here's a screenshot of one of our online meetings with almost all the artists - present and abroad, including our virtual resident Hamlet Lavastida (@hamletlavastida )- There are 3 continents visible in this photo!

27/05/2020

Welcome Carola Uehlken (@carolauehlken )!

Give us a hand in greeting our new head of press and public relations.
With both a background as a curator/ writer and as a practicing artist, Carola brings a unique perspective to the work that goes on at the Künstlerhaus. From investigating mysterious real estate conspiracies in her art collective ​KLÖTZLER & UEHLKEN, to directing the construction site-bound project space "Babel" and realizing numerous art projects across Europe and China, her eclectic international experience will undoubtedly be a great addition to the team.
We’re very excited that you’re joining us!

Photo: Valeria Schulte-Fischedick

#newemployee #kuenstlerhausbethanien #artberlin #artistsinresidence

27/05/2020

Les péripéties d'une artiste de Lévis en Europe confinée

For our French readers: Amélie Laurence Fortin only recently made it back to us at KB after being stranded in Warsaw. The enclosed article traces her journey as borders closed one after the other, as well as how the discovery of a ray of light in her Warsaw attic opened up a new direction in her practice. We are so pleased to have her back with us and continuing this new strand of her practice!

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1704340/peripeties-artiste-levis-europe-confinee

Partie s'installer à Berlin pour un an, à l'occasion d'une résidence du Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ), l'artiste en arts visuels Amélie Laurence Fortin s'est retrouvée prise dans une course contre la montre, lors de la fermeture des frontières en mars dernier. Depuis, beauc...

26/05/2020

#KBPublications
Johannes Kahrs works exist between the ebb and flow of movement and stillness.
They capture the ever-moving, speedy modern image - the frames of a movie, discarded photographs or portraits wavering between the recognizable and the unknown. Frozen into unmoving portraits, they are pulled out of their suggestive nature and given transparency.

This process of suspension robs the subjects of their velocity, but retains their immediacy - or: the images are loud but lack context. Suspended in an endless act of being caught and forced to re-invent, they demand the viewer’s co-operation in finding new meaning. Cher, a businessman asleep at his computer, or Ulrike Meinhof are examples of just some of Kahrs suddenly directionless subjects.

Selected pieces from seven years of production can be seen in Kahr's beautiful publication "Down N' out", published on the occasion of the exhibition with the same name at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in 2002.

#throwback
#johanneskahrs
#kuenstlerhausbethanien
#closedbutopen

26/05/2020

Cabinet #04 Katsuhiko MatsubaraHourglass #1,2,3 | Bar-Am

This coming Thursday 28 May at noon, Bar Am will be reopening once again. On view will be 3 large-scale paintings by Japanese artist and current KB resident Katsuhiko Matsubara. He treats his paintings as creatures who he gives form and substance to by moulding “flesh-like colors, textures and shapes on the canvas surface until he begins to feel an existence.”

On view 28 May - 1 August!

https://bar-am.de/katsuhiko-matsubara-hourglass-confguration-123/

28.05 – 01.08.2020

25/05/2020

#quarantinetalk
+Virtual studio visit 06.04.2020 +artist Shoufay Derz (@shoufay ) in Berlin, Germany +curator Heike Fuhlbrügge (@heikefuhlbrugge ) in Berlin, Germany+

Shoufay Derz is a grant holder of the Australia Council for the Arts (@auscouncilarts ).
Images: Work in progress by Shoufay Derz. Courtesy og the artist.

#shoufayderz #kunstlerhausbethanien #shoufayderz #artistsinresidence #berlinartscene #artberlin #closedbutopen

25/05/2020

Performance – PERFORMANCE HOMEWORK

Here is a great website in which artists have each contributed an exercise that can be performed at home alone during these Covid-19 times. The website is part-online group exhibition, part-performance project and an excellent repository of entertaining, absurd and interesting ideas.

Check out the exercise by Song-Ming Ang. All you need is “your imagination, a computer and photos of your home’ to get started.

http://www.performance-homework.work/imaginary-albums.htm?fbclid=IwAR1N7cTcEv6_o0i1P7YdHKWllmdxH9mEe064nuMDu1r7vaH6OuUGt0nh0l0

23/05/2020

Crossbill

If you’re into concentrated, precise and artful craftsmanship, here’s a strikingly soothing video of former KB resident Asako Shiroki. She was filmed while creating an Isuka-tsugi or crossbill joint, which is a halved rabbeted oblique scarf joint typically used in the building of temples and shrines.

https://vimeo.com/416387980?fbclid=IwAR17c2tETVwewyTNlUOV66wfuIPhNiGfABzwG95qJZ3IPoXpgr4mA5eeqDo

'Crossbill’ (16mm film, colour, silent, 06:23, 2018). ‘Crossbill’ was filmed in August 2018 at Tokyo Geidai's Torride campus and follows…

22/05/2020

Amorph Real — Åsa Cederqvist

Åsa Cederqvist has an app out called ‘Amorph Real’ that lets you experience her works virtually - some pieces are extensions of existing works and some only exist in the digital sphere. So wonderful!

https://asacederqvist.com/Amorph-Real

Amorph Real YEAR: 2019 I MATERIAL: AR-app for iOS availiable through App Store Amorph real is a tool through where you experience extentions to physical...

21/05/2020

Take a look at this wonderful initiative ‘You’ve Got Mail’. Rather than succumbing to the impulse to automatically shift art to the digital realm, curator Julia Katharina Thiemann set up a project for the mailbox: “A number of international artists were invited to contribute a piece of work that deals with the topic of social distance in a broader sense. Half of the artistic works are sent on the one hand to my network of people interested in art and culture and on the other hand, more or less by chance, they are inserted into mailboxes from private households in Ludwigshafen and Mannheim, Germany.”

Former KB Iza Tarasewicz is among the contributing artists, whose work you can see at the link.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CASIcW4h_87/