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
KB - ITW #03 Talya Lubinsky
South African artist Talya Lubinski chats with us in the last days of her residency at Künstlerhaus Bethanien. In it, she talks about her recent exhibition ‘Marble Dust’, which took as its starting point the Mamelodi Cemetry in South Africa. Get to see more of how she developed this exhibition and worked with tensions between the materialities of paper and marble, between disintegration and permanence, between memory and loss.
Talya has been a resident at KB with the support of the KfW Stiftung.
https://www.bethanien.de/en/exhibitions/talya-lubinsky/
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@kuenstlerhausbethanien takes part in the climate strike on 20.09. - climate change must be counteracted vigorously!
Posted @withrepost • @kraupatuskanyzeidler BOOK LAUNCH
Pieter Schoolwerth, Model as Painting
in conversation with Carly Busta @cbcb2000
11.07.2019, 6.00–7.30 PM
Künstlerhaus Bethanien
Kottbusser Str. 10
10999 Berlin
With contributions by Pieter Schoolwerth, David Geers and Molly Warnock.
Published by Sequence Press, New York with the support of Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York; Capitain Petzel, Berlin; and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin.
#pieterschoolwerth #modelaspainting @capitainpetzel @miguelabreu @sequencepress @kuenstlerhausbethanien
Excited about tomorrow's opening? - We are!
Our #artistinresidence #HugoDeAlmeidaPinho gives us a little impression #behindthescenes of his exhibition "Paradox of Plenty" - opening tomorrow 23 May 2019 at @kuenstlerhausbethanien.
Come by if you're also eager to see more!
Hugo is a grantee of the @fcgulbenkian, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Warm #thanks for the support!
#HugodeAlmeidaPinho #kuenslterhausbethanien #artinberlin #caloustegulbenkianfoundation
Idea: Amelie Baier Video: @valeria_schulte_fischedick
Repost from last Thursday, 11 April: Us again! Join us! Today, 7 pm is the opening of 5 exhibitions featuring the work of 6 of our artists in residence at the #KünstlerhausBethanien. As the opening begins, @KristaBelleStewart, one of our exhibiting artists, shares with us a wonderful #timelapse of the set-up of the work „Indian Artists at Work“ for her exhibition „Potato Gardens Band“ at the #KünstlerhausBethanien. The show is accomponied by a brilliant essay by Mitch Speed, artist and author based in Berlin! @speed_mitch
#Thanks to Jako Lippur ( @eilemasorocula ) & Daniel Romphf ( @tipsticky ) for their super helpful minds and hands!!! The whole of the @KuenstlerhausBethanien hopes to see you at the exhibition.
@NatGalleryCanada #SobeyArtAward
Repost from last Thursday, 11 April: Join us! Today, 7 pm is the opening of 5 exhibitions featuring the work of 6 of our artists in residence at the #KünstlerhausBethanien. As the opening begins, @KristaBelleStewart, one of our exhibiting artists, shares with us a wonderful #timelapse of the set-up of the work „Indian Artists at Work“ for her exhibition „Potato Gardens Band“ at the #KünstlerhausBethanien. The show is accomponied by a brilliant essay by Mitch Speed, artist and writer based in Berlin! @speed_mitch
#Thanks to Jako Lippur ( @eilemasorocula ) & Daniel Romphf ( @tipsticky ) for their super helpful minds and hands!!! The whole of the @KuenstlerhausBethanien hopes to see you at the exhibition.
@NatGalleryCanada #SobeyArtAward
The catalogue „Dance Clinic“ by former artist in residence #choykafai from Singapore (2014/2015 grantee of the National Arts Council Singapore) has just been released.
It is being published on the occasion of Choi Ka Fai´s exhibition „The Choreography of Things“ (06.03.2015 - 29.03.2015) at the #Künstlerhausbethanien and tries to summarize through a primary visual approach Choi Ka Fai´s studies in between the fields of contemporary art, dance, computer and neuroscience.
#Thanks to the contributors:
Text: Adeline Chia, Choy Ka Fai, Elisa Rusca, Katharina Tiemann, Mi You and Ember Jello
Photographs: Katja Illner, Law Kian Yen and Bernie NG
Graphics: Choy Ka Fai and Brandon Tay
Concept and Graphic Design: Choy Ka Fai and Arzu Saglam
Production: Mara Nedelcu
ISBN 978-3-941230-42-2
@nacsingapore #ntucentreforcontemporaryartsingapore #danceandtechnology #theaterundtechnik #tanzhausnrw @KuenstlerhausBethanien
#hotoffthepress We love the freshly released catalogue by our former #artistinresidence @murielgallardoweinstein from Chile. The catalogue is being published on the occasion of Muriel Gallardo Weinstein’s residency within the International Studio Programme at @kuenstlerhausbethanien (exhibition: "On weaving a basket“ 12.04. – 06.05.2018). #Thanks to the contributors:
Text: Christoph Tannert
Graphic Design: Bijan Dawallu
ISBN: 978-3-941230-75-0
Open Call: 'Be Mobile - Create Together!'
Open call for emerging artists! Led by the Institut français de Turquie / Türkiye Fransız Kültür Merkezi, the Embassy of the Netherlands in Ankara, the Goethe-Institut and the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IKSV İstanbul Kültür Sanat Vakfı), the project – "Be Mobile-Create Together!" – seeks to promote artistic and cultural exchanges between Europe and Turkey through the establishment of a multi-national and multi-disciplinary network of artist residencies.
We at Künstlerhaus Bethanien are very excited to be part of this unique project and we are looking forward to seeing you here! Check out the website https://www.bemobilecreatetogether.eu to get more information and send in your application!
#bemobilecreatetogether #letscreatetogether #opencall
Open Studios, party in Riccardo Benassi's studio
A big thanks to everyone who came to celebrate our Open Studios and opening of 'Ende vom Lied' last Thursday. Riccardo Benassi hosted quite the party late in his studio! Frescobaldi
Sleazy Kid
We are now heading into the final days of the current shows at KB. Don’t miss the exhibitions by Hanae Utamura, Yasutaka Kojima, Dae Hong Kim, Juuso Noronkoski, Eeva Hannula, Kijin Park. The last day is this Sunday, February 14. http://www.bethanien.de/
Spotlight on Dae Hong Kim whose roaming robotic critters have been both surprising and charming KB audiences this part month. The artist finds inspiration in objects we use in our daily life but mostly remain unnoticed. A plastic bag, a car, a camera, etc. becomes an indirect representation of the constrictions we are forced to live in.
His current show Zoo / Lab runs until Sunday 14 February.
http://www.bethanien.de/en/exhibitions/dae-hong-kim/
Hyein Lee
Our scheduled FRIDAY PICK is now the 'Sunday Selection' for this week, coming from Hyein Lee who has been braving the cold, working outside along the Maybachufer and the dilapidated garden houses of Plänterwald for her upcoming exhibition at KB in January. This morning she shares with us a video from her explorations...
Marie Zolamian: Birzeit Historical Center
Earlier this month, KB resident Marie Zolamian presented a video and performance as part of Qalandiya International, Palestine, following her residency at Birzeit Historical Center. For Zalamian, the common sight of water containers on the roofs of houses in Birzeit served as a continuous and ever present reminder of the insecurity and absence of resources in Palestine, Zolamian's video depicts the sunset as observed through a small quantity of precious golden water. Extract below.
The Künstlerhaus Bethanien is an international artist residency programme and exhibition space that is in an established player within the Berlin and international art scene since 1974.
